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 Wearing or carrying your patchwork often serves, unintentionally, as an advertisement for your work…and may lead to unimagined opportunities.  This happened to Josephine (Mrs. William) McKinley, as related at From the Scrapbook on Will McKinley’s “previously owned” blog.
Carrying a quilted patchwork pocketbook to a lecture at the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library changed the whole course of Mrs. William McKinley’s life.
You’ll enjoy reading the complete story of how this led into a patchwork/quilting life.  I found it such an inspirational story and wanted to share it with you, my readers.
(2008) Mary Emma Allen

When it’s a patchwork purse by Louis Vuitton, you can get $52,500 for it with no problem!  And it doesn’t even have to be attractive.
Fourteen older Louis Vuitton bags were cut up and stitched together to create this “ugly” bag of many colors, pockets, zippers and hangings with handle by special order for a customer.  Only five bags of this type are being made for sale in the United States and 24 world wide.
It goes to show, if you make a name for yourself or develop a brand, you don’t have to create attractive items…simply something original by YOU.