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Crazy Quilt Jacket by Lou Anne Sassone

After LouAnne Sassones mother-in-law died, a crazy quilt jacket that had been promised to her was mistakenly given away to a non-quilting relative who sent it to her local thrift store in Rio Vista, California. By the time she was alerted, it was gone from the thrift store.

LouAnne writes, “This was a work of art and had hung on a wall or doorknob ALL the time. My daughters were as devastated as was I when the sister-in-law told me that she thought it an ugly thing and took it to her local thrift shop. She checked with the thrift shop and, of course, it was gone.”

The jacket was made by Charlotte Tuggle in the 70′s and was a true family treasure. She had promised that one day it would be LouAnnes; however, Mrs. Tuggle did not put it in her will. One thing that she did put in the will was that her clothing was all to go to her sister-in-law, so her husband, in his grief, gathered the jacket up along with everything else in the closet and carried it off to Rio Vista.

A happy coincidence has developed from this loss, however. LouAnne inherited all her mother-in-laws sewing items and she had kept all the many scraps left over from making the jacket and a vest that was also lost (no picture of the vest exists). This led LouAnne to get more involved with crazy quilting and now she has truly found her artistic medium at last after many years of struggling creatively. She is now planning a crazy quilted runner for the top of her piano with photo transferred pictures of her mother-in-law in the middle.

If you have any information regarding this crazy quilt jacket, please contact LouAnne at LASassone@aol.com.