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QBC-1: Book
One
- Elspeth's Alaskan Adventures Collections
- Elspeth's 11
Quilts
- Elspeth came from America
- Born in America's heartland
- Family was old New England stock
- Grandparents met in Oregon in the late 1880s
- William had done some time on the river
- Trip California in the 1920's
- Play the Quilt Mystery
Game
- Elspeth's Journeys Book One
- Quilt 1. Elspeth's Alaskan Honeymoon Sampler Quilt
- Elspeth's Journeys
QBC-2: Book Two
- Quilt 2. Life in Fairbanks & gold mining in the Creeks
- Quilt 3. Gold mining on the Goodpasture
- Quilt 4. Icelandic Christmas in Alaska
- Quilt 5. Jake offers comfort in time of need – Alaska Babies
- Quilt 6. Alaska Wildlife Babies
- Elspeth's Journeys
QBC-3: Book Three
- Quilt 7. Native Life with Brown Eyes
- Quilt 8. Alaska Interior Native Lifestyles & Crafts
- Quilt 9. Alaska Wild Flowers
- Quilt 10. Alaska Highway of '42
- Quilt 11. Alaska Native Stories
QBC-4: Other Collections
Two Quilters Havin' Lotsa Fun Collections
- Quilt 1. Dawn & Peggy living in Delta
Junction, Alaska
Purple Legged Women & Other Collections
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Two Quilters Havin'
Lotsa Fun Collections
Quilt 1. Dawn & Peggy living in Delta Junction, Alaska
Quilt blocks featuring: 12 seasonal block highlighting
living in Delta Junction circa 1997
Suggestions...
- Jan: Annie playing hockey
- Feb: Festival of Lights
- Mar: FMKQ Spring Fling
- Apr: Return of geese & cranes
- May: Breakup
- Jun: Return of tourists
- Jul: Deltana Fair
- Aug: Wildfires & smoky hot days
- Sep: Moose hunting
- Oct: Buffalo in farmer's fields
- Nov: Dog mushing beneath Northern Lights
- Dec; Christmas in Alaska.
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Purple Legged Women & Other
Collections
Purple Legged Women Quilt Block Collection
Idea: Purple Legged Women (PLW) Collection
What are the fabric requirements and details... so the marketing department
can design the packaging for the "Purple Legged Women Collection?
Idea: PLW Catch phrase
And what is the catch Phrase... al la the snowman quilt -block-of the
month series for or PLW series?
PLW Quilt Blocks
- January
- February
- March
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October - Trick or Treat Shoes
- November - Bunny Boots
- December
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Stuff from the Archives
Elspeth's Alaskan Adventures quilt book & other things
(first of
ACQC Quilt Books)
For the first ACQC Quilt book... what are the names of each block
on the web site and the key to the order in the quilt. and the directions
to making it?
Elspeth's history & future generations
Also need more about her history. Does
she really have some Algonquin or other Amerindian heritage? Was she
a "Purple legged woman" ?
i.e. an Alaskan Pioneer woman who tried to maintain Paris like fashion
in the face of Alaska's bitter winter cold for her man?
Or who was Elspeth's
daughter... b. 1920s who was a young woman in the WW II years in Fairbanks
who wore 1940s style clothes ... the height of Betty Grable "it
Girl" and her daughter... Elspeth's' grand daughter b. 1944, who
was a long legged, fine young thing in her early 30's in the 195o's era-
who was NOT a lady of the evening... but did work in a bank in Fairbanks
in 1975... and with her fine legs and curious figure.... once in a trip
to Spain some Spanish cop said " Mira! Mira! "in Spanish...Look!
Look! Look at hose fine legs!"... any way... this grand daughter
was one of the "purple Legged Women" who braved the Fairbanks
cold to make a statement for all womanhood!
Elspeth's Alaskan
Native Beadwork Quilt
Also for the Baltimore Album Quilt the Elspeth made in the Alaskan Native
Beadwork style with Alaskan Wildflowers... what is the symbolism of each
of the 12 blocks she made.
Make Elspeth's quill into a kit
Do it a small book to sell on the site.
Elspeth's Alaskan Athabascan Life Cycles Quilt Series
Seasonal (by month) Fish Camp, Berry gathering, egg gathering, geese
migrations, Moose Hunting, Caribou hunting, trading with the Athana peoples
and the traders from Fort Yukon, and the Gwichc’hen peoples, Potlatch,
Trapping, Fur Sewing, Birch basket making, baby belt making, dance moccasins
(pointed toe) making, hunting jacket making, etc, church going, etc.
Elspeth's Athabascan beadwork quilting..
Of Alaskan wildflowers in the style of colonial bed rugs.
Elspeth & William's travels up the Tanana
Starting from Fairbanks on the paddlewheel steamer Atlas, they traveled
to Big Delta. There they met with Milo's brother John Hadjovitch. Then
going upriver on his flat-bottomed boat the Healy Lake, Dot Lake and
ultimately to Mansfield where John and Milo had established a trading
post.
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