QUILT

Description: BACK OF QUILT IS A BURGUNDY COTTON SATEEN. TOP HAS THIS BORDER ALONG 2 SIDES. IS THEN DIVIDED INTO SQUARES THAT HAVE WHITE CRISS-CROSS STITCHES ON OUTSIDE OF EACH SQUARE. SQUARES ARE COTTON (AND WOOL?) AND ARE ALMOST ALL IN DARK TONES OF GREEN, GREY, PURPLE, PINK, BLUE AND BROWN. EACH SQUARE HAS A DIFFERENT DESIGN. ON THE TOP RIGHT IS PINK FLOWER WITH GREEN LEAVES WITH PINK AND YELLOW, AND GREEN AND YELLOW SAME DESIGN DECORATIONS IN THE CORNERS. BOTTOM RIGHT IS SAME COLOUR BROWN BACKGROUND WITH STEM THAT HAS THREE PINK, YELLOW AND WHITE FLOWERS WITH PINK AND WHITE SAME DESIGNS IN CORNERS. TOP LEFT IS SAME BROWN WITH A DIAGONAL LINE OF PINKISH-ORANGE FLOWERS ON A YELLOW VINE WITH THE SAME FLOWERS IN THE OTHER TWO CORNERS. AT BOTTOM IS AQUA VELVET GEOMETRICAL DESIGN PATCH WITH WHITE AND BROWN CANE EMBROIDERED. OTHER PATCHES HAVE NAMES OF WOMEN EMBROIDERED AND FLORAL AND OTHER PATTERNS. IN MIDDLE VERTICAL ROW, THIRD HORIZONTAL ROW THE PATCH IS SALMON AND READS IN BLUE "SIONS LADIES AID". ON REVERSE HAS A FEW LOOSE THREADS AND MINOR HOLES WORN IN FABRIC.

History: EACH SQUARE OF QUILT WAS MADE BY SOMEONE IN THE SION'S LADIES AID IN ENCHANT IN THE SUNDIAL AREA (1919). THIS AID WAS UNDER THE LUTHERAN CHURCH. SOME OF THE PEOPLE ON THE QUILT ARE RELATED TO DONOR. MRS. C.K. ENGEN-GRANDMA, MRS. H.C. DUNN-MOTHER, MERLENE DUNN-TWIN SISTER, WHO IS ONLY ONE STILL ALIVE ON THE QUILT WHEN DONATED IN 1996 BESIDES DONOR. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE REFER TO PERMANENT FILE AND PREVIOUS DONATIONS BY DONOR. PERMANENT FILE INCLUDES COPY OF ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN LETHBRIDGE LIVING MAGAZINE AND RESEARCH SUBMISSION OF BIOGRAPHIES RELATED TO QUILT’S INDIVIDUAL PERSONALITIES, DISPLAYED AS SIGNATURES ON QUILT. 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 2-0263” BY THE ALBERTA QUILT PROJECT.