Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Kris Driessen <krisdriessen@> Here is a cut-and-paste from another list: Grand Opening of Quilt and Textile Museum in Lancaster, PA In a few weeks, The Quilt and Textile Museum of Lancaster, PA, will be opening its doors for the first time. On display will be the renowned Lancaster…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Xenia Cord <xenia@> Virginia Snow Studios (Collingbourne Mills/Dexter Threads, Elgin, Illinois) sold squares of white fabric stamped for the placement of Double Wedding Ring block components. Apparently one pieced the arcs, then appliquéd them to the stamped block. These were marketed as blocks, with information in fine print…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Gail Ingram <gingram@> Does anyone on this list know pattern source for quilt listed “Funky Forties Basket” in DSQSG meeting report? Before my fall Outlook Express crash, a member had identified the source as a pattern that appeared in newspaper in 1940. Quilt was made in Briston, TN….
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Xenia Cord <xenia@> Last Sunday in the local paper there was a long article interviewing a Friends minister who dresses in period costume and gives programs on the substantiated Quaker role here in the UGRR. Unfortunately she also includes information on ‘codes’ quilts and the UGRR. Today the…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 01:12:09 -0500 | From: “J. G. Row” <JudyGrow@> Are any of you near Loyola University? Dr Clarice Boswell will be the featured guest at the Loyola University Library Book Club on Wednesday, February 18th. Crown Center Auditorium/Lobby, Lake Shore Campus. 6:00 PM. >Featured Reading:…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: February 13, 2004 | From: “Quiltstuff” <quiltstuff@> Hi all, I have just finished reading a new book about old quilts in New Zealand. It is a lovely book and the story of the author’s personal task to catalogue her countries old quilts. The book is called Warm Heritage…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: February 10, 2004 | From: “Jocelyn” <jocelynm@> > Not everyone in the US met progress at the same pace. My grandfather was > killed in a horse & wagon accident in the 1940’s. And my father had a contract with the US Postal Service to break the roads…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: February 8, 2004 | From: “Jocelyn” <jocelynm@> > > Here is an email I just received from the reporter at the Topeka > Capitol Journal re the article which appeared several days ago, One might think that the Topeka Capitol Journal might be able to spare a reporter…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Sue Reich “I knew Wilkes Booth very well, and he sometimes slept at our house. Hew was a tall, well made young fellow, and he had large black eyes and luxuriant hair. He was a nervous, erratic, strange man; and it is a curious thing that he slept…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: quiltstuff@ Below is an email I received after writing to the journalist of that article on UGRR quilts. Sounds like she has had quite a few emails. VBG Suzy From: “Adamson, Erin” <erin.adamson@> To: “Quiltstuff” <quiltstuff@> Sent: Saturday, 7 February 2004 7:38 AM Subject: RE: Underground railway. >…