QUILT

Description: MONOGRAMMED & DATED PATCHWORK OR CRAZY QUILT. PATCHES ON BLUE SINGLE PIECE BACKING & BORDER. "W M S 1946 STICHED ON CORNER BORDER IN RED THREAD. PATCHES IRREGULAR IN SHAPE & SIZE & ARE WOOL & COTTON PIECES. BOLD ZIG-ZAG STITCHES USED. HANDSTITCHED. WORN & FRAYED, SEE CONSERVATION REPORT.

History: MADE BY ELDA POTTER IN SPRING COULEE. FAMILY ARRIVED THERE IN 1937 OR '38 FROM NORTH DAKOTA, OF NORWEIGEN DESCENT. QUILT PASSED ON TO DONOR WHEN MAKER & HUSBAND DIED. HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN FAMILY. UPDATE 16 JUNE 2014: ON 4-5 JUNE 2014, ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM (RAM) CURATOR LUCIE HEINS VISITED THE GALT AS PART OF THE RAM’S INITIATIVE TO DOCUMENT QUILTS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS IN ALBERTA. THE DOCUMENTATION WORK IS KNOWN AS THE ALBERTA QUILT PROJECT. IN ADDITION TO HEINS’ PROGRAM, THE DATA IS ALSO SUPPOSED TO BE SUBMITTED AS PART OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE NORTH AMERICAN QUILT INDEX. THIS QUILT HAS BEEN ASSIGNED NO. “AQP 2-0279” BY THE ALBERTA QUILT PROJECT.