Mensie Lee Pettway (born 1939) is an American artist associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters.
[3] The daughter of accomplished quilter America Irby, and granddaughter of Hannah Wilcox, Mensie Lee Pettway grew up with much communal support.
Mensie Lee was one of the founding members of the Freedom Quilting Bee when it was first established at Estelle Witherspoon's house.
Even after Mensie Lee returned home from the Bee at the end of the day, she would work on her own quilts.
More free-form and improvisational, her patterns began as "Nine Patch" quilts, but morphed during the process into, what the artist deemed, "This and That" patchwork.