Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: “Jeff & Sheri Lesh” <jefflesh@> During the cleaning out of my grandparents’s house, when they moved to an apartment. I aquired grandma’s cedar chest and all the family quilts. I also found a stack of signature blocks that had not been put together. So last fall I went…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: JLHfw@ Dear Pat, Which Rose Wilder Lane book are you referring to? Janet in Fort Worth From: “Lynne Z. Bassett” <lzbassett@> Thank you to all of you who have written to congratulate me on my whole-cloth quilts article in the current issue of Antiques! I greatly value your…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Elaine Kelly I mentioned WW2 Red Cross quilts last week. The stories keep turning up, and shortly after that post I was contacted by the friend of a lady in her 70s who is worrying where ‘her’ RC quilt will end up in the future. . . Its…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:30:35 -0500 | From: Gail Ingram <gingram@> > enough to want to make provision for it ‘in case’. (Its label declares > it to come from Kitchener, Canada – if there’s anyone who knows the > place I’d love to hear from you). Sally,…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:54:49 -0400 | From: joan kiplinger <jkip@> Judy and all — here is a first-hand account from my friend of 25 years who has lived in NO for past 8 years and has been wanting to move back to her native GA. She left…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:22:15 -0400 | From: Patricia L Cummings <quiltersmuse@> Yesterday, my husband and I wanted a brief respite from work. Since we work at home, when we are home, we are working! We decided to take a little ride up the road a piece, as…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:04:45 -0400 | From: “Candace Perry” <candace@> Cinda THANKS for the plug! FYI — we’ve extended the Cotton exhibit until Sept 18 so there is one extra weekend… And also, don’t miss the Threads of Faith Exhibition at the Mennonite Heritage Center, Harleysville, PA….
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: “Keryn” <heloise56bigpond.com> Hello quilt lovers everywhere. I am new to this list and this is my first post. I am Australian and a passionate quilt collector, quilt history and women’s stories/history lover. My degree is in archaeology although I am not working in that field at present. I…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:06:26 -0400 | From: Patricia L Cummings <quiltersmuse@> A recent news article said this: While on the Underground Railroad tour, Donald Ellis, 72, marveled at the ingenuity of the runaway slaves who navigated hundreds of miles of wilderness to reach the Canadian border, marking…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: karenquilt@ Gail, personally speaking, I was referring to just quilters in my post because I find it an”interesting” phenomena — from my personal perspective — that more quilt-makers don’t show more interest in quilt history. <g> But they probably find me “odd” that for all my love of…