title: Fuse-and-Tell Journal Quilts: Create Your Story in Cloth
author:  Laura Wasilowski 
description: <DIV>Laura Wasilowski is an art quilter, surface designer, and dye shop owner. Her whimsical wall pieces combine colorful hand-dyed fabrics with personal stories of her life in Elgin, IL.</DIV>
zlib_text: WORTH THE
  WHISK
  Melissa Williams
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, organizations, places,
  events, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are
  used fictitiously.
   
  Text copyright © 2020 by Melissa Williams
  All rights reserved.
  No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system,
  or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,
  photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission
  of the author.
  Cover design and illustration by Brittany Wilson
  
  CHAPTER ONE
  She’s a Saucy One
  August
  What the hell was I looking at?
  Completely confused and a little unnerved, I studied the piece of
  fabric that was hanging on the front doorknob of my apartment. If this was
  supposed to be a sock, then it was missing the other half. And I was going
  to be pissed.
  I knew that moving in with a friend of a friend of the family wasn’t
  going to be all sunshine and rainbows, but I had trusted my cousin when he
  said, and I q