The feature length documentary "Pieced Together" is currently in production from Director/Producer Julianne Donofrio. The film tells the story of how one woman's love for her mother changed the American landscape - and saved her life.
Donna Sue Groves never planned on creating a cross-country community, but she is humbled and grateful, for it is this very community of beautiful friends and strangers that has helped her put the pieces of her life back together as she fought through job loss, breast cancer and numerous health concerns.
It all started with a simple idea: pretty up an old barn for her mother, a celebrated quilter, by hanging a wooden square painted to look like a traditional quilt block. But why stop with just one square? So Donna Sue got together with her neighbors in Adams County, Ohio and created a driving trail of squares hung on barns thinking it would attract tourists looking for a day trip who might then stop and spend money on gas or food or crafts made by local artists. The idea sparked a grassroots phenomenon and a new form of American folk art.
Now over 10 years later, more than 40 states have organized quilt square trails; and across the country there are countless squares on barns, garages, and fences. And Donna Sue is forever comforted by the love and support from her friends, as if wrapped in a quilt made of fabric and thread; only this quilt is special, it is made of plywood and paint.
©2014 Pieced Together - All Rights Reserved
It all started with a simple idea: pretty up an old barn for her mother, a celebrated quilter, by hanging a wooden square painted to look like a traditional quilt block. But why stop with just one square? So Donna Sue got together with her neighbors in Adams County, Ohio and created a driving trail of squares hung on barns thinking it would attract tourists looking for a day trip who might then stop and spend money on gas or food or crafts made by local artists. The idea sparked a grassroots phenomenon and a new form of American folk art.
Now over 10 years later, more than 40 states have organized quilt square trails; and across the country there are countless squares on barns, garages, and fences. And Donna Sue is forever comforted by the love and support from her friends, as if wrapped in a quilt made of fabric and thread; only this quilt is special, it is made of plywood and paint.
©2014 Pieced Together - All Rights Reserved
