[3][4][5] Sue Willie Seltzer and her three siblings were raised by a single mother.
Seltzer and her brother, being the oldest, were required to pick at least one hundred pounds of cotton per day.
[7] In a 2002 interview, she recalled starting to quilt with the collective when she was thirty or forty years old.
A true improvisational artist, Seltzer often borrowed other people's blocks, to piece together into one quilt.
She preferred large blocks and bold contrasts to small, meticulous pieces.