{"id":1632588,"date":"2025-09-30T14:13:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quiltfolk.com\/?p=1632588"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:08:41","slug":"leaping-across-the-last-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quiltfolk.com\/journal\/leaping-across-the-last-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaping Across the Last Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Alaska\u2019s One-of-a-Kind Shop Hop<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Two rabbits have taken up residence in my backyard this summer. They spend most of their time under the blueberry bushes, patiently waiting for a greedy squirrel to land on a branch and shake a hailstorm of berries to the ground. When I wander out to the garden, the rabbits come to life, hopping across the grass to safety.<\/span><\/p>

Seeing announcements for summer shop hops, I can\u2019t help but think of those bunnies, though in my imagination, they\u2019re dressed up like figures in a Beatrix Potter book and carrying baskets full of fat quarters. Hop, hop they go to their local quilt shops, one after another, from morning to late afternoon, always home in time for tea.<\/span><\/p>

Perhaps if you live in a part of the country where quilt shops abound and the roads are good, this bunny hop mirrors your own shop hops (minus the rabbit ears). But if you live in Alaska? \u201cHop\u201d might be a bit of a misnomer.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Mural made by local artist Zo\u00eb Elizabeth on the side of (the now closed) That Old Sew and Sew quilt shop in Fairbanks.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Just ask Marie Noah, owner of Northern Threads in Fairbanks, who ran the 2025 Alaska Shop Hop. She\u2019s quick to point out that Alaska\u2019s not one of those teeny-tiny states that make up The Lower 48. You could double Texas, plop it into the middle of Alaska, and you\u2019d still have room to add a Rhode Island or two.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Which is to say, when you hop across Alaska, you definitely won\u2019t be home in time for tea.<\/span><\/p>

Fourteen shops across the state participated in this year\u2019s hop. Each shop had its own block (each designed by Marie), and the 14 blocks stitched together form <\/span>The Last Frontier<\/span><\/i> quilt, a marvelous tableau of Alaska wildlife. Among the block designs were arctic foxes and polar bears, ground squirrels, hares, caribou and bald eagles, not to mention grizzly bears, puffins, musk ox, and orcas. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Let it be known that there\u2019s more than one way to gather all this wildlife into one shopping basket. In fact, if you love the 2025 shop hop quilt (and it truly is gorgeous), you can buy the blocks from the comfort of your own home, or poolside, even, with a glass of iced tea in one hand and your iPhone in the other.<\/span> (Click here<\/span><\/a> to see Marie\u2019s 2025 Shop Hop page.)<\/span><\/p>

Ah, but wouldn\u2019t it be lovely to head to Alaska and hop from shop to shop? You could start in Skagway and drive to Wasilla\u2014a mere 14-hour trip! (Oh, but what a trip it would be!) Now, you could truly hop the 45 minutes from Wasilla to Anchorage, and then hop the 45 minutes to Palmer. See, this is easy! At least until you decide to head to Juneau (you\u2019ll need to fly), or if you decide it\u2019s time to head up to Fairbanks from Palmer (a five-hour trek). <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Marie Noah with the Raven block from \"The Last Frontier\" shop hop.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Now, I\u2019m not from Alaska, and I bet with a good navigator by your side (or on your phone), you could find a much more sensible route than the one I\u2019ve just suggested. But you get my point: we\u2019re not really hopping through Alaska, are we? We\u2019re leaping and bounding.<\/span><\/p>

According to Marie, a wide variety of quilters participated in the 2025 Shop Hop. \u201cThere are locals who are doing it for sure,\u201d she told me when we spoke via Zoom. \u201cThere are certainly tourists who are trying to visit as many stores as they can. They’re super excited about being here. And then, there’s that group of people who can’t make it to all the stores, or they’re not coming to Alaska this season. So they’re mail ordering. We have some that get together as groups to save on shipping; they’ll order 10 for a group. So I think it’s a pretty even mix.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t

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The Puffin block in \"The Last Frontier\" shop hop.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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At the time Quiltfolk<\/em> spoke with Marie, 5,000 quilt kits had already been sold.<\/span><\/p>

Marie was the 2025 Shop Hop\u2019s mastermind. She designed the quilt, and then, she and her staff did all the cutting for the kits. As you might expect, it\u2019s a lot of work. \u201cI designed the pattern, wrote the pattern, printed the pattern, printed all the marketing materials for all the stores, and made the samples for all the stores,\u201d Marie said. \u201cI didn’t make a whole quilt for every store, just an individual block. And then, they put in their order, we shipped them the whole kit package together, and they sold it to the customer. So it’s a kind of marketing thing. It brings people to their store and makes the customers aware that they’re there. It helps those stores get recognized. And it helps the quilting community in general, in the state of Alaska.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Fortunately, Marie enjoys the job, even if it is on the overwhelming side. She finds it rewarding and is excited that so many people love the Hop. And, of course, it brings quilters into her own shop, Northern Threads, a 4,700-square-foot retail space in Fairbanks that she\u2019s owned and operated now for nearly 30 years. She credits the success of her shop to the fact that she creates unique products and experiences for her customers, including original designs and Alaska-themed quilt kits. She also had already created an online shop prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, so she was more prepared than most when the quilt world went online in 2020.<\/span><\/p>

In spite of all the work it takes to run a shop and all the work it takes to run a shop hop, Marie is contemplating doing another hop next year. She\u2019s already working on a pattern. \u201cAm I going to get it done in time?\u201d she mused. \u201cI hope so. I hope so. I’m going to try my best to get it done because this has been fun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Frances O\u2019Roark Dowell writes about quilts for magazines such as\u00a0Quiltfolk,<\/i>\u00a0Quilting Arts<\/i>,\u00a0QuiltCon Magazine,<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Fons & Porter\u2019s Love of Quilting.\u00a0<\/span><\/i>She also writes quilt fiction (Birds in the Air,<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>Margaret Goes Modern and Other Stories<\/i>, and\u00a0<\/span>Friendship Album, 1933<\/i>) and is the host of the\u00a0<\/span>Quilt Fiction Podcast<\/i>. An award-winning children\u2019s book author, Frances has published more than 25 books for kids, including\u00a0the Edgar Award-winning\u00a0<\/span>Dovey Coe<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>The Secret Language of Girls<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>trilogy, the\u00a0<\/span>Phineas MacGuire\u00a0<\/i>series,\u00a0<\/span>Shooting the Moon<\/i>, and\u00a0<\/span>Hazard<\/i>. For more about Frances, visit\u00a0francesdowell.com<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Azuree Holloway has been photographing for Quiltfolk<\/em> since 2019 and has contributed to many other projects. Check out more of her work on her\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0and her\u00a0Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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