Alberta Quiltmakers and Their Quilts
Description:... "When Selma Nelson was not cooking for her husband and his crew of men who built the railroad from Camrose to Kelsey, she was piecing her Crazy quilt outside her tent. Katherine Hittinger worked through the pain of her arthritis to quilt bedcovers for her eight children, all the while teaching piano, and maintaining a 600-egg incubator to pay for groceries. Lawrence Jackson, an oilfield worker by day, made a baby quilt by night while his pregnant wife, Ima, was bedridden. These and other examples in this book demonstrate the importance of quilting to the people and history of Alberta. As part of the Alberta Quilt Project, Lucie Heins spent six years researching and documenting Alberta quilts. She partnered with 38 museums throughout the province to host public quilt documentation events. Assisted by local quilters, she was able to collect important information about the quilts made in Alberta as well as to capture the histories of the quiltmakers themselves. Alberta Quiltmakers and their Quilts highlights late 19th century quilts, 20th and 21st century quilts found across the province, with a focus on quilts made during the 20th century. It includes 12 indepth stories about individual quiltmakers and 12 wide-ranging chapters featuring many quilts around specific themes. Together, they reveal how quilters used their ingenuity for making quilts using materials on hand to stitch relationships to their families and communities. In this book, you can discover the fabric of Alberta’s history, one quilt at a time."--
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