August 7 – 13, 1998
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Primary topics of this QHL Digest:
- Cheater Cloth History — Members discuss the dating and identification of cheater cloth, including an 1884 calendar piece by the Bemis Company and a chintz cheater quilt likely from the 1840s. (see the article on cheater cloth)
- Civil War Era Quilting Patterns — A member asks about period-appropriate quilting for a Civil War reproduction quilt, prompting discussion of Brackman’s reference to stippled quilting, stuffed and corded work, and elbow quilting. (see the article on a Civil War quilt)
- Quilting Ancestors and Family Sewing Heritage — Members share stories of sewing and quilting in their families, from seamstress mothers to quilting grandmothers.
- Settler–Native Interactions and Hair Traditions — A story about a braided hair relic in the Yuma Territorial Prison Museum sparks discussion of hair cutting, scalping practices, and settler fears.
- Penny Squares and Redwork — Links to scanned penny square designs and discussion of embroidery patterns used in early quilts. (see the article on redwork and outline embroidery)
- Civil War Quilt Donation to the Atlanta History Center — A member coordinates the donation of a Civil War-era quilt to the Atlanta History Center with directions and logistics for the ceremony.
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 21:20:28 -0500 | From: “Jeff & Sheri Lesh” <jefflesh [at] netins [dot] net
This is not about hair as related to quilting, but just for interest. I have my great-grandmothers 2 braids in a wooden box from when she was young. They are all braided and at the top of the braids are these small loops, made out of cording or something similar. My grandma told me she would pull her hair back and bobby pin them in. So her hair was not necessarily that long, then I think she wound them around in a coil or something. I also have some of my grandma’s hair from when she was young, just in a sack. She is 89 years old. Her mother was 86 when she died in 1975. But the texture on in is just like it is new, interesting, in an odd way.
Sheri
From Iowa
Jeff & Sheri Lesh jefflesh [at] netins [dot] net
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 01:20:53 -0400 | From: “Judy Grow” <Judygrow [at] blast [dot] net
In a booklet called,”Colonial Quilts” published in 1932 by Successful
>Farming there is the following offer;”Eastern Star Quilt (not illustrated) The reproduction of the Eastern Star Emblem makes a very beautiful patchwork quilt. The center star measures 72″x72″,with a 6″ border,making the entire quilt 84″x84″.Comes ready stamped,in the correct Eastern Star colors,red,green,blue,yellow and white. Order No. 152-A All materials for top of quilt,stamped ready to cut and join together. Best quality sateen. $5.95
>Complete Cutting Guide,perforated quilting deign,stamping powder and color chart,order No. 152-B,$1.00″
Roberta,
Thankyou, thank you, thank you!
I just ran and took all the measurements of my quilt and they don’t match the measurements in the item you copied from the magazine, but, where it says the center is 72 x 72, mine is 67 x 66. That’s not too far off and could have happened in the many washings this quilt has had, or perhaps the background the star is appliqued to could have been cut smaller. My triple border measures 8 5/8ths, and that could just be my makers bending the directions and enlarging each strip. My quilt measures 76 x 75, not 84 x 84. If she used this pattern, and my optimistic guess is she did, (this was a farming area) she opted for the pattern only, not the “best quality sateen”, and put together her own fabrics of plain cotton.
So now I know this quilt could be as early as 1932, not just from the 40’s as I had thought. Now, if I could find a copy of that pattern, I’d know for sure! It’s out there somewhere!
What great friends we have on this list. I am so grateful to all of you who searched your memories and your literature to help me document this.
Judy in Ringoes, NJ judygrow [at] blast [dot] net
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 22:40:15 -0700 | From: “Catherine Kypta” <vger [at] cwnet [dot] com
About the cheater cloth, I have one broken dishes quilt which is a great scrap quilt, with a great fabric collection in it and on the back is the most wonderful Centennial fabric cheater cloth, the “cheater blocks” are variable stars and there is quite an assortment of centennial themes. There are patriotic symbols, flags, bells, cannon, shield, etc, and the dates all over it 1776-1876. It is browns with touches of red, blue, tan and black. Probably just as interesting as the front! I also have about 10 yards of 30’s cheater cloth with the double wedding ring design on it, 32 inches wide. So, we know the cheater fabric was being made at least as eary as the Centennial. Hope this helps!
Catherine in Sacramento
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 01:28:38 -0400 | From: “Judy Grow” <Judygrow [at] blast [dot] net
>Interested in the templates and stencils used-have samples of cardboard templates to be traced around to metal shapes.
>Pepper,
For the past couple of years at a lovely antiques show at the Prallsville Mills in Stockton NJ, a dealer has shown a large set of metal quilting patterns, some flat, as stencils, and one, large and 3-dimensional in a feather cable. It is absolutely gorgeous, meant to be used with stamping powder! All I can do is look each year, as he wants $2000.00 for the set! At that price, I’ll probably be able to look at it for a good many years to come! And the next show is August 29th and 30th. Want to meet me there?
Judy in Ringoes, NJ judygrow [at] blast [dot] net
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 08:43:03 EDT | From: Feathrwate [at] aol [dot] com
In the Yuma Territorial Prison Musemu in Arizona, there is a woman’s long braid. The story goes, her husband cut off his wife’s hair because he was gone a lot and didn’t want it to be a temptation to the Indians. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this?
Feathrwate
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 09:01:52 -0400 | From: Lynn and Debbie Cupp <lcupp [at] erols [dot] com
I feel terrible! I left out some other important folks on our list who contributed to this issue of Quilting Today:
Merikay Waldvogel: History Lessons: A Flag Quilt Launches a Search into the Past (use of tobacco felts)
Mary Waller: Zig Zag settings for quilts
Nancy Roberts, I know you are one of the editors…good job! This issue was packed with great stuff, including an article by Jonathan Holstein.
Gee, this is starting to sound like a commercial, but I honestly have no affiliation with the magazine. I am a regular reader.
Debbie Cupp
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:10:20 EDT | From: [from unknown]
The only early dated piece of cheater cloth we’ve had was an 1884 calendar printed by the Bemis Company.
Had great cheater patchwork of 1870’s fabrics.
We currently have a cheater cloth chintz quilt. The chintz patterns are typical 1830’s which makes one think it was probably from the 1840’s while those colors and styles were still in fashion. It was used for the front of the quilt with a large madder stripe border around three sides and on the back. The madder could be later — and of course the cheater cloth could be too.
Usually cheater cloth in the 20th century seems to run about 10 years behind the cloth it pictures, except the past few years when the cheater seems to come out simultaneously with the “original” fabric.
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 18:25:21 -0500 | From: Lori Ann Hughes <kehughes [at] ameritech [dot] net
I have made a wonderful queen-size quilt using Judy Rothermel’s Civil War repro line. I am interested in quilting it in a manner appropriate to the period. Does anyone have any insight as to what the typical type quilting patterns were used? Thanks in advance.
Lori in Michigan (too hot & huuumid today…think I should just be “cool” and quilt! LOL)
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 19:30:46 -0400 (EDT) | From: JOCELYNM [at] delphi [dot] com
On 8-AUG-1998 08:48:31.7 Feathrwate said to JOCELYNM
> In the Yuma Territorial Prison Musemu in Arizona, there is a woman’s long braid. The story goes, her husband cut off his wife’s hair because he was gone a lot and didn’t want it to be a temptation to the Indians. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this?
Feathrwate,
No, but the tradition of cutting off a woman’s hair so that she won’t be a temptation to men in general, is one of long-standing. Witness Orthodox Judiasm and Roman Catholic nuns.
I guess I’d be suspicious that the husband may have given that excuse, but he was more worried about her fidelity. <G> Indians probably scalped more white MEN than women, and it sure wasn’t because they were long-haired! From what I understand, the value of a scalp was in the warrior-status of the enemy– it was a token that you had fought and conquered its former owner. No pride in scalping children, or helpless women! So a very long scalp was ‘proof’ that you’d scalped a woman…who might not have been much of a warrior. And unless he shaved her head, she could have been scalped anyway!
Sounds like a suspicious and jealous husband to me! <G>
Jocelyn
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 22:15:16 -0400 (EDT) | From: JOCELYNM [at] delphi [dot] com
On 8-AUG-1998 18:40:25.8 kehughes said to JOCELYNM
> I have made a wonderful queen-size quilt using Judy Rothermel’s Civil War repro line. I am interested in quilting it in a manner appropriate to the period. Does anyone have any insight as to what the typical type quilting patterns were used? Thanks in advance.
Lori,
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 22:56:48 -0500 | From: Laura Hobby Syler <texas_quilt.co [at] mail [dot] airmail [dot] net
Lori,
What kind of blocks did you make?
One thing to keep in mind is the style of your piecework. Yes, Barbara does indeed refer to the wonderful feathered designs,stuffed work and double and triple rodded quilting designs, and these are very appropriate for many of the applique quilts or many of the “counterpaned” pieced designs . However, in looking at several quilts from this time period, maybe not necessarily produced in war torn regions, it seems to me that many of them are done echoing by the piece…not 1/4 inch, but more like 1/8″ away from the seamline, then repeating at larger intervals. There is, in the north Texas region, one of the three known surviving “Sanitary Commission” quilts ( at least those with some form of the stamp on the back of the quilt, this one has a simple oval with the SC words inside) It is an album block similar to the one pictured on page 10 of Barbara’s CW book, set 5×8, each block individually bound, then whip stitched-very neatly, I might add-together. Each block is quilted in the muslin center square (from center side to each center side to form a smaller square within…) and then echo quilted or “elbow quilted” somewhat similar to the middle left illustration of those styles listed on pg 122.
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 01:13:41 -0400 | From: “Judy Grow” <Judygrow [at] blast [dot] net
>i have a wonderful block, a quilt block and wanted to frame it so that both sides can be admired. Most people have looked at me with great sympathy, obviously thinking i have bats in the belfrey! So, needless to say i am SO thrilled that it is possible. Hiranya Loder :> Parramtta, Sydney, Australia
Hiranya,
There a a number of ways to accomplish this. Following are two ways: 1. (Not conservation framing) Use adhesive transfer tape (ATG tape made by 3M and others — colorless and 2-sided, on a light brown carrier — most picture framers use this and it is available in art supply stores) to adhere the reverse side of the block to the center of a piece of glass at least 4″ bigger than the block (12″ block, 16″glass). Use just a couple of small pieces of tape on the two upper corners. Fit another piece of glass the same size with 1/4″ acrylic spacer (called “Innerspace” here, and available in clear, black, and smoke) around the four sides of the glass. This already has ATG tape on it — just peel off the carrier and it is ready to cut and use. This will hide under the lip of the frame. Fit into a 16″ frame with 1/4″ balsa wood to hold it all in. First paint the balsa black or dark brown, or stain it to match the frame. I cut the heads off of brads (virtually headless nails) and push them through the balsa into the frame. Fill the holes with mathcing wax or putty. Add 2 hangers (but no wire). Hang and enjoy. The back of the frame will not be finished as the front, but you can take it off the wall and see the workmanship. 2. (Conservation framing) Sew the block to heavy mylar along the top with just a couple of stitches , perhaps at the corners and in two other places. Tie off the thread neatly at each place. Make it invisible. The mylar should be at least 6″ larger than the quilt block. Cut another piece of mylar the same size. Encapsulate the block by running adhesive transfer tape around the four edges of one piece of mylar, and then pressing the second piece to it, trapping the block inside.
Now you can cut two identical mats, one for the front, one for the back, with the openings 1/2 inch or so bigger than the block, and tape the mylar to the inside of one of the mats.
Frame this with two pieces of glass, again using 1/4″ balsa to hold everything in the frame. For this procedure the frame you choose must be at least 1″ deep at the rabett. Check with all layers stacked before you settle on a frame. There are a couple of companies that make 2-sided frame moulding. These are finished on both the front and the back, but the interior space is limited. They are usually sold for framing old stained glass to hang in front of windows and are relatively expensive per foot, as they are made from quality hard wood, usually oak, ash, or cherry.
If you know a good woodworker he can easily make one for you once you figure out exactly how much space you need inside the frame. It is just a question of getting deep enough stock.
The other alternative for a 2-sided frame is to build 2 frames and glue/join them back to back. This can be done by cutting down the height of each frame until your “package” will slide in with little or no rattling about. You join 3 sides of each frame and glue them together. Also glue together the 2 pieces of the fourth side. Make this the top side. Pre-drill holes in this last side for joining this piece to the 2 vertical members and screw and glue (don’t nail) the last sides of the frame together after first slipping in your art and glass. Fill the screw holes with matching putty.
Hang and enjoy.
None of this is inexpensive. Count on paying well over $100.00 US for a framer to do this for you. It is very labor intensive, and the materials cost a lot too.
Judy in Ringoes, NJ judygrow [at] blast [dot] net
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 07:34:36 EDT | From: [from unknown, signed “Janet”]
<< Indians probably scalped more white MEN than women, and it sure wasn’t because they were long-haired! >>
Ok – I’m getting off-topic. I’d say the man probably did cut his wife’s hair based on fear of the Indians. Seems like one of the major problems w/ settling this country was not what the natives did, but what the settlers FEARED they would do. There were some nasty battles back east a generation earlier. (Have you heard of the Cherry Valley Massacre?) And the practice of leaving the wife a gun to shoot herself if attacked is well established in folklore if not fact.
Ok, to bring this back to quilting – Did teaching Native Americans to quilt begin in the missionary schools or does anyone have evidence of settler/native interaction around a quilt frame?
Janet
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 08:01:02 EDT | From: [from unknown, signed “Janet”]
<< Anyone have an old set of feathering templates of metal? >> I have 2 sets of these that I bought in an anique/junk shop a couple years ago. They were displayed in the kitchen section & were cheap. At first I thought they were made from some kind of old saw blade as one edge is very ragged. Then I realized this was like clipping a curved seam – necessary to get the tight curve needed.
Janet
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 08:26:31 -0500 | From: Quilting Heritage ListServ <qrs [at] albany [dot] net
By a very odd co-incidence (insert twilight zone music), my kids dragged me to a local estate auction yesterday, within walking distance of our house. Sharp eyed Joey had noticed a wooden trunk full of “quilt pieces”. Sure enough, the trunk and the contents were auctioned as one, and I managed to buy 4 wonderful quilt tops, 3 that are okay, 3 that would strike fear into the heart of the most dedicated quilter…and 6 yards of centennial cheater cloth fabric. It sounds exactly like what Catherine described.
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 13:13:18 -0400 | From: “Phyllis Twigg” <ptwigg [at] radix [dot] net
The Annapolis Quilt Guild has organized a bus trip to the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza in Fort Washington on Saturday, September 19th. They have invited other guilds and friends to join them. The cost of the trip is $ 23.00 which includes transportaion, admission to the show, and a small snack for the trip home.The bus will depart from the Parole Plaza parking lot near the Crestar Bank (the “sailboat” building) at 7:15 a.m. SHARP . The bus will leave Pennsylvania at 4:00 p.m. to arrive home approximately 6:30 p.m.
Checks should be made payable to the Annapolis Quilt Guild and be mailed to Jackie Barnes, 385 Grinstead Road, Severna Park , MD 21146. The money is non-refundable but if you cannot make it someone can take your place. The guild will keep names on a waiting list for that purpose. If you have questions to can call Jackie at (410) 544-5170 or Phyllis Twigg at (410)
757-7644.
This year’s show will include over 400 quilts and garments as well as over 200 booths in the Mercahnts Mall. It will be a great day and YOU won’t have to drive !
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 14:42:52 -0400 (EDT) | From: dcl924 [at] mindspring [dot] com (Diane Lockwood)
The donation “ceremony” is still on for this coming Thursday (8/13) at 10am at the Atlanta History Center. Directions to the AHC are: take I-75 south to exit #107, West Paces Ferry Road. At the end of the ramp, turn left. Drive 2.7 miles. At the 3rd light, turn right on Slaton Drive. Turn into the first driveway on the right. The phone # for the AHC is 404-814-4000. Not only will *I* be there <vbg> but so will Jean Ann Eitel (editor of QUILTS magazine) and Rob and Lynn Holland from TVQ! Gee, I feel like a celebrity! I know, I know, it’s the quilt they are coming to see, not me!
See you there!
Diane
Usually in Pollock Pines, Calif temporarily in North Georgia
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 21:03:41 +1000 | From: nomad1 <nomad1 [at] ibm [dot] net
Dear QHL’ers,
Thanks so very much for the wonderful feedback regarding my Double Pink cheater cloth quilt. Its lovely to know that my gut feeling looks right after all! Judy thanks too for sharing your double framing tips with us, it really was sweet of you to take the time to email all the fine points. Now I can at least pretend to know what I am talking about at the framers!!
What a fab to the max group we have, sharing our knowledge and ourselves with our brother and sister quilters.
Thanks again,
Hiranya Loder from Parramtta, Sydney, Australia where finally the sun came out to play! :>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 10:38:07 -0700 | From: “Catherine Kypta” <vger [at] cwnet [dot] com>
Hello Kris, and all. Looked at the fabric that Kris found, and it is exactly the same fabric on the back of my quilt! What a hoot – coast to coast , no less and the exact same fabric. I am so glad you went to the sale! All these small coincidences are very eerie! So glad you posted it for all to see!
Later, Catherine
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:10:24 -0500 | From: “Carla Schwab” <cgs [at] indy [dot] tds [dot] net>
I have come out of lurkdom to ask for help. I am trying to date a design I saw, and would like any suggestions. The design is a feathered star medallion quilt, the center block is an ohio star which is surrounded with the larger feathered star. Any ideas? Has anyone seen a similar pattern, and if so, where? Thank you in advance.
Carla Schwab
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:20:40 -0500 | From: “Carla Schwab” <cgs [at] indy [dot] tds [dot] net
Sorry, I guess I meant to ask about the design and to what era it possibly could date. The feathered star with the ohio star in the center is a design I saw somewhere, and was curious to its origin and history. And does anyone know where I could find such a quilt in a publication on older quilts. I just wanted to date the design, and does such pattern exist in the realm of traditional quilts. Sorry for being so vague, I’m good at that.
Carla Schwab
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 19:07:20 EDT | From: Kittencat3 [at] aol [dot] com
I just got back from three delightful days in Burlington, Vermont, including a trip to the Shelburne Museum. As everyone knows, they have a large and well maintained quilt collection (over 100 quilts, most of them from the collection of museum founder Electra Webb), of which about a quarter are on display at a time.
Among the beauties out right now: the Ringgold Baltimore album quilt; an early mosaic quilt from an African-American family (c. 1880); a quilt from the Century of Progress exhibition (whitework in the pelican in her piety design, with green reverse applique in the borders), a centennial album quilt from the Childs family (some of the blocks are hilarious!), and some nice Depression quilts. About half the quilts on display are hung between sheets of plastic and may be examined at leisure.
My two favorites were an 1813 applique quilt made by Mary Robinson of Connecticut, and a stunning 1810-20 broderie perse quilt from the Virginia Tidewater country. The Robinson quilt is *strongly* reminiscent of the Sarah Warner quilts, most notably the Greenfield Hill quilt that was lost in the Henry Ford Museum fire in the early 70’s. The colors are bright and clear, and the applique was done with the whip stitch, not the blind stitch. The broderie perse quilt was *very* interesting. It was worked on a figured cotton background, and shows pseudo-Chinese scenes (mandarins, ladies, pagodas, trees, etc.) cut from chintz. The appliques were secured with couched cording, the oldest known applique technique. Couching a cord on the raw edges was most popular before the Baroque period, and pretty much had died out by the time this quilt was made (probably due to finer fabrics that could be turned under).
Fascinating all around. They also had the prize winners from the RJR Sarah Johnson Challenge (all of them perfectly gorgeous), plus lots of needlework. The museum itself is well worth the visit, with a superb collection of folk art, several gorgeous Monets collected by Mrs. Webb’s parents, and the last remaining sidewheel lake steamer, the Ticonderoga, in drydock on the grounds. Admission is normally $17.50, but I took advantage of the $7.50 student discount :).
We stayed at a nice hotel in Burlington, the Anchorage Inn. Other area attractions include a wildflower farm about five miles south of the Museum, a wonderful pedestrian mall in downtown Burlington, Vermont Expos minor league baseball, and ferry crossings to New York state. Best of all, we found a great quilt store in Winooski, Yankee Pride, and I picked up a charm pack of 36 batik squares, all of which are stunning.
All in all, a great time. We’re going back next summer!
Lisa Evans
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 19:13:52 EDT | From: Kittencat3 [at] aol [dot] com
In a message dated 98-08-09 21:52:38 EDT, you write:
<< Ok, to bring this back to quilting – Did teaching Native Americans to quilt begin in the missionary schools or does anyone have evidence of settler/native interaction around a quilt frame? >> This largely depends on the part of the country. In New England, where there was a fair amount of intermarriage and interaction up until the early 19th century, quite possible. Ditto with nations like the Cherokee and Cree, and of course the Seminoles. The Plains Indians probably learned to quilt at mission schools after the Indian wars.
In some ways, this is like asking when “the immigrants” learned to quilt; different tribes and nations had different experiences with the Europeans and picked up snippets of European culture based on that. French-Canadians already knew how to quilt, as did Britons and Germans, while most Slavs and Central Europeans had to be taught quilting at settlement houses. Different ethnic groups, different experiences.
Lisa Evans
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 22:17:03 EDT | From: Lekhbah [at] aol [dot] com
On Friday night, while my daughter and I were making over a skirt of my great- grandmothers’ (she is ALOT tinier than my well-fed granny), we were talking about her 7th grade home-ec class, and she told me about this guy who got in trouble because he used someone elses straight pins!!!! It seems that they are NOT allowed to pass pins and needles back and forth because of the danger of transmitting the AIDS virus from needles or pins!!!!! When I think of the causal way that I pass this stuff back and forth……I know that schools have to take precautions, but geez….I guess things sure HAVE changed from when I went to school!!!
Kim
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 07:58:54 EDT | From: Kittencat3 [at] aol [dot] com
I never saw anyone in my family quilt, but my mother was an expert seamstress who had sewn most of her clothes in college (I inherited her Featherweight). My grandmother hated housework and devolved most onto Mum when she was 12, so I have no idea if Grandma quilted. I’m inclined to think not, since she came from a well off family and owned substantial property in her own right. When the Depression hit, she simply sold her land in Pittsburgh and moved to the family farm in Venango County! She was still using many of the old linens and the old furniture when I was a child, and there were *no* quilts. Mum also had no idea whatsoever of how to piece or draft a block. However, the women in the family *did* know when to encourage me! I somehow acquired a set of fabric swatched and used to play with them, laying them out pretty patterns. My Aunt Lil went to a local quilter and commissioned a quilt for me as a sixth birthday gift. It’s a Grandmother’s Fan, dress prints on white, with a bubblegum pink binding. The applique is by machine, but nicely done.
That quilt really started my interest in quilting. I didn’t start until college, but I was always fascinated by colors and patterns…..
Lisa Evans
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 08:11:07 EDT | From: Feathrwate [at] aol [dot] com
About sewing-or quilting-ancestors:
The earliest Aderholt came to York, Pa., in 1775 from Germany. A tailor, he made uniforms for the Relolutionary War. The shears are still in the family. I am his g-g-g-g-granddaughter. Can’t find much reference to quilters, however.
Linda in SC
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 05:45:23 -0700 (PDT) | From: “John W. Kaufman” <incentive [at] earthlink [dot] net
Hi Everyone,
For the 3rd time this year the D.C. Big Flea will be at the Capital Expo Center in Chantilly, Virginia, this weekend:
Saturday, August 15, 10 AM to 6 PM,
Sunday, August 16, 11 AM to 5 PM.
The Expo Center is located on Route 28, south of Sully Plantation. There is a $3 fee to get in and Parking is Free.
This is your opportunity to visit over 600 dealers in one location. It is NOT exclusively a quilt and textile show, but I am sure there will be many items of interest to Quilters.
I will be there in space 342. Look for the flashing red lights. My business name is “Just as I Am”. I specialize in Vintage Fabrics, Lace, Patchwork; Sewing & Housewares; Fine Collectible Thimbles; and Personalized Gifts. I recently acquired a large collection of stamped, unfinished linens, including pillowcase sets, dresser scarfs, and towels. These are in beautiful condition and ready to finish in your favorite colors. The next D.C. Big Flea will be at the same location November 21 & 22. You may contact me at 703-521-6271 or e-mail to Nancy incentive [at] earthlink [dot] net. Thank you for letting me post this to the list.
Nancy Kaufman
Just as I Am
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 07:32:03 -0700 | From: “J. Higgins” <tch [at] ix [dot] netcom [dot] com
Ok, to bring this back to quilting – Did teaching Native Americans to quilt begin in the missionary schools or does anyone have evidence of settler/native interaction around a quilt frame?
The Seminole Tribe has a web site and the following URL is a short history about Seminole Patchwork.
Seminole Clothing: Colorful Patchwork
http://www.semtribe.com/culture/clothing.shtml
Julie Higgins
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 06:33:25 -0700 | From: “Cathi McCutcheon” <cathimc [at] concentric [dot] net
There are some wonderful scans of penny squares on this page, as well as a little bit of history about them.
—
Cathi in California cathimc [at] concentric [dot] net
http://www.geocities.com/~cmccutcheon
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 09:07:30 -0700 | From: “Mary K. Tozer” <mkt [at] sierra [dot] net
Hi, everyone —
I am usually a lurker but wanted to express my thanks for such a wonderful group……
I just wanted to write and say how much I enjoy this list. I get so much information from reading the posts. I love the history behind quilts and their makers and have learned a lot from the discussions regarding Civil War quilts and the swastika pattern. I also enjoy hearing about how quilting has or has not been in families’ history. Keep up the good work! I know I can come to this list and enjoy my readings without having to muddle thru a bunch of flaming messages that occur on another quilting list I belong to.
Thank you! –Mary
***************************************************** Mary K. Tozer mkt [at] sierra [dot] net
Elko, Nevada
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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:53:11 -0400 | From: Lynn and Debbie Cupp <lcupp [at] erols [dot] com
I received my copy of Southern Quilts: Surviving Relics of the Civil War by Bets Ramsey and Merikay Waldvogel. I am very pleased with it. The stories of individual quilts and circumstances, the photography, and the thoughtful timeline included are all just great.
Thanks, Merikay!
Debbie Cupp
Virginia Beach
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 14:24:09 EDT | From: Baglady111 [at] aol [dot] com
NinePatchN [at] aol [dot] com
Subject: QHL: SISTERS
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I have friends who are going to the Sisters’s area and need some info..hopefully you can help..
They need to know which town USAIR flies into closet to Sisters.
Redmond OR has a Roberts Field..
If they cant get there by USAIR, what closest city CAN the get there from? When they have the show..,it is one or two days?
Is it more feasible to arrange lodging farther away then there in town? In other words, see the show then hit the trail off the mountain for lodging???
I am still amazed that they actually hang quilts out in direct sunlite…I layed a quilt over a rail fence one..BIG WIDE STREAK of bleached out on lining…brrrrr!!!! Jane
Jean jquilt [at] aol [dot] com
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:49:36 -0500 | From: Swede <kittyboxers [at] toledolink [dot] com
I’m enjoying this thread on quilting ancestors. Has anyone ever heard of a “collective memory”? In other words, experiences we have leave an imprint on our genes, and we pass down memories to the following generations? Just a thought on why maybe some people who were not were not aware that their ancestors quilted heavily get into it at a later age.
Annastina
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:51:25 EDT | From: QuiltFixer [at] aol [dot] com
There is an article on Feedsacks in Quilt World, September 1998, Page 8. Featured in the article in lots of information of feedsacks, our very own Jane
Clark Stapel, and the Feedsack Club. The article is titled Of Sackers and Sackcloth by Anna Eelman.
Toni B.
QuiltFixer [at] aol [dot] com
