project.com) to showcase the quilts. She’s working with Paul Krause of Dancing Sun Multimedia to create a documentary film about her mother, and she plans to create a booklet with pictures of her mother’s quilts. Now Jean has found her own voice as a storyteller. She takes Jewell’s quilts to
storytelling roundups, quilt groups and other events. She shares her mother’s stories of women’s history, of the purple sandwich, of life on the plains. But Jean adds her own story each time she speaks. She talks about an amazing woman who grew up in Montana and raised seven children, and she
explains how this woman used her creativity and curiosity to make extraordinary “story quilts” that she shared far and wide. “My mother was a storyteller,” Jean says when she starts her talks. “Her name was Jewell.”
LEFT: Close up of The Purple Sandwich Quilt of girls with their dinner pails in a schoolhouse. The girl in the yellow dress is holding her purple sandwich. Photo by Paul Hartley RIGHT: Jean Wakely telling stories of The Purple Sandwich Quilt to school children as part of the Montana Storytelling Roundup in 2013. Story Quilt Project
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