Scraps

About the Book

It is the middle of the Depression. Eleven year-old Delia, an only child, watches with fear as her mother faces a serious illness. During what seems like a futile search for a woman to keep house and nurse her mother, a stranger appears at the door. To her amazement, both her mother and father accept this odd little woman - Miss Lula - who proceeds to make what is crooked straight with scrub brush and Scripture. Despite her frustration with the scraps of paper scribbled with admonitions from the Bible that Miss Lula tacks to the wall over her mother’s head, Delia finds herself warming to her. When yet more scraps, this time cut from fabric, arrive, a quilt begins to take shape. Just as the quilt is pieced together, Delia’s mother grows daily stronger. Delia’s faith in Miss Lula and in life is also growing- but can Miss Lula stay forever? And what would happen to this little family if she was to go away? Truly a story of fabric and faith, Scraps teaches a lesson every quilter and every person of faith already knows. It is about taking the scraps life hands you and piecing them together to make something colorful, beautiful and life sustaining.

About the Author

After many years writing books for children and the Christian market, author Faye Couch Reeves now happily spends much of her time writing plays. Productions of her plays are done annually across the country. Scraps is her tribute to her home state of South Dakota and her mother’s gift of faith. Like most would-be quilters, she believes that she with the most fabric when she dies - wins. Faye and her husband Ron are the parents of two grown daughters and grandparents to two boys. Her first book for Honeycomb Press was the warm and funny To Be Surprised by Love-Stories for Those Who Believe Faith Happens When You’ve Made Other Plans. Illustrator Judith Stedry Vinyard, an award winning artist, began her painting journey by walking the cornfields of Nebraska with her cousins to flush the pheasants for their hunting fathers. Since that time she has used watercolor to create Midwestern farm scenes, Southwestern adobe landscapes and bold florals that can be found in private collections throughout the world. Judy is a retired elementary teacher who has two daughters and lives with her husband Martin in Albuquerque, New Mexico.