Boy! Was it worth the wait! Twelve years later and the loving efforts of seven (actually 8,but #1 is also # 5 ) women resulted in the most beautiful frontier shirt /jacket ever made out of four deer skins....check out all that fringe! Stag horn buttons (made out of one of the antlers) and "antique" Wabash River clam shell "back up" buttons. Am I blessed or what? :-)

# 1 Ellen the huntress who shot the four deer and skinned them,

#2 Nancy A. ,who scraped the hides and prepared them for tanning, then sent them off to be tanned,

#3 Ruth Ann W., the seamstress/friend, who measured me and cut out the pattern, including all that fringe!

#4 Beesie N., who sewed on all the fringe,

#5 Ellen, who did most of the sewing and who had never sewed anything in her life before this project.....

#6 Sara S., Elias's girlfriend who helped Ellen sew and did some sewing herself,

#7 Sandy S., (home economics teacher) ,Sara's Mom who advised via telephone when things went haywire with the old sewing machine...Hey! Sometimes FOUR layers of leather..........

#8 Sandy C. (retired home economics" teacher) who also advised via telephone and in person when things got complicated

Now you know....:-)