June 18 – 24, 1999
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Primary topics of this QHL Digest:
- Smithsonian Quilt Collection Tour — A member recounts a behind-the-scenes tour of the Smithsonian’s full quilt collection, sparking discussion about museum access, preservation priorities, and storage limitations.
- Charity Quilts and Community Giving — Members share a wide range of charitable quilting projects, from neonatal units and Head Start programs to mammogram awareness challenges and hospice quilts.
- Toile History and Copperplate Printing — An article on toiles prompts a discussion of copperplate printing techniques and the role of Francis Nixon in their development.
- Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum and Quilt Resources — Members share contact information for the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, the Lowell textile museum, and online quilt-related resources. (see the article on quilt museums)
- Vermont Quilt Festival and NQA Show Previews — Upcoming events in Vermont and Omaha are previewed, including reproduction fabric exhibits and vendor booths.
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:05:28 EDT | From: JQuilt [at] aol [dot] com
http://www.coloradomuseums.com/ is the address to get to the rocky mountain quilt museum jean jquilt [at] aol [dot] com
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:28:47 EDT | From: Baglady111 [at] aol [dot] com
http://www.coloradomuseums.com/ is the address to get to the rocky mountain quilt museum jean jquilt [at] aol [dot] com
thank you Jean for filling in a gap I left. For more info you can contact them at
The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
1111 Washington Ave
Golden, CO 80401
303-277-0377
Fax 303-215-1636
E-mail RMQM [at] worldnet [dot] att [dot] net if you offer programs with historical background, send them you literature care of JANET FINLEY.
Jane of THE FEEDSACK CLUB
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 10:57:40 -0400 | From: laurel horton <kalmia [at] innova [dot] net
Could anyone provide me with contact information for Diane Affleck at the textile museum in Lowell, Massachusetts? It’s the collection that used to be the Museum of American Textile History in North Andover. Thanks!
Laurel Horton
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:43:08 -0700 (PDT) | From: Kris Driessen <krisdriessen [at] yahoo [dot] com
> Subject Quilt auction starts tomorrow (Saturday)!
> Dear QuiltCollector members and friends,
> Our June quilt auction starts tomorrow morning, Saturday, JUNE 19th. We have over 60 items on auction — more than 3 times the selection of our opening auction last month!
> ** Listings are available now for your preview. ** Go to http://www.quiltcollector.com, then click on “Listings”
> Here are some of the fine quilts you’ll see
> * A wonderful king-size “Victorian Crazy Quilt” (1883). Bidding starts at $300.
> * A mint “Log Cabin” wall quilt by Donna Bruder (1994). Bidding starts at $75.
> * A gorgeous new “Twirling Fans” double by Elaine Van Dussen (1999). Bidding starts at $825.
> * A “1930s Sampler” with exquisite embroidery (quilted in 1984). Bidding starts at $300.
> PLUS
> * 33 quilts with Opening Bids of less than $200.
> * A Miniature “14K Gold Sewing Machine” made by a San Francisco jeweler (1998). Bidding starts at $275.
> * Much, much more.
> Also, check out our new and improved Auction Index, which is now browse-able by quilt style, date made, title, seller name, price and number of bids. This should help you easily find what you’re looking for.
> So don’t miss out, and please tell your friends about this great new venue for quilters and collectors! (Feel free to forward this email or post it on your favorite quilting email list or news group.)
> –mark
> P.S. You will need your password to enter the auction tomorrow morning. If you forgot it, please email registrar [at] quiltcollector [dot] com
> + – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – + Mark Kriss <mkriss [at] quiltcollector [dot] com> QuiltCollector — the quilt auction website http://www.quiltcollector.com
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:31:41 EDT | From: JQuilt [at] aol [dot] com
here’s an address for all of the museums in Lowell mass. http://www.uml.edu/CityofLowell/Museums/museums.html jean jquilt [at] aol [dot] com
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:01:59 EDT | From: Chyral [at] aol [dot] com
kalmia [at] innova [dot] net writes
> Could anyone provide me with contact information for Diane Affleck at the textile museum in Lowell, Massachusetts? It’s the collection that used to be the Museum of American Textile History in North Andover. Thanks!
The museum’s website is at <http://go.boston.com/sites/athm6/home.html>
The address for general information is
The American Textile History Museum
491 Dutton Street
Lowell, MA 01854-4221
Telephone (978) 441-0400
Fax (978) 441-0400
E-mail ntevnan [at] athm [dot] org
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 18:57:04 -0500 | From: “Kirk Collection” <kirkcoll3 [at] home [dot] com
We’re hoping to see a lot of you in Omaha next week for the NQA show June 24-27. We’ll have a booth of course, but we’re also coordinating the appraisals and lectures on antique quilts across the street at Trinity Cathedral through the Quilt Heritage Foundation. Jan Sears, Cindy Brick and Eileen Trestain will be doing appraisals, and Cindy, Jan and I will be lecturing.
There will also be a quilting bee going on to make quilts for the 1000 quilts for Oklahoma project. We have about 250 in so far, and another 200 or so who have written to say their boxes have been shipped. We’re hoping to: make about 100 quilts next weekend. Details at www.quiltheritage.com. And on top of everything else, we’re having Moonlight Madness at the shop from: 4 til midnight on Friday with free trolley rides from the Doubletree Hotel.
The main thing I’ve learned so far is that I can be in three places at once, but four is beyond my ability <G>. Thankfully we have lots of good help and we hope you’ll enjoy your time here. There are over 500 quilts entered in the show which I think makes it the biggest ever. Plus 28 special quilt events around town from patriotic and flying quilts at the Strategic Air Command Museum to 1930’s quilts at Boystown.
All the info is available at the show site www.radiks.net/yankee2 or you can call the shop at 1-800-398-2542 for info on any of the events we’re involved in.
Stop by and say hi.
Nancy Kirk
The Kirk Collection www.kirkcollection.com
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 21:33:17 -0500 | From: Karen Bush <Birdsong [at] worldnet [dot] att [dot] net
everybody and welcome to the new ones! I just got back from my Denver trip, WITH the flu, and now, trying to catch up on my QHL digests while coughing and sneezing! ugh….) kb
— TIP- “Never baste a quilt on a water bed….” just another little tidbit from “Quilt As Desired” Written by Karen Bush http://www.idahoquilt.com The Hand quilting Teaching text- CLASSES- PRIVATE AND IN-SHOP- Inquiries welcome
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 22:46:44 EDT | From: CABHoney [at] aol [dot] com
I purchased a quilt top from a yard sale today that was marked $2.00. The lady said it was from her grandmother’s house, and it is made I believe of wool but definitely some flannel. It is a 9 patch quilt with gray sashing. There is also enough yardage of gray flannel for the backing. I can’t decide if I want to quilt it or tie it. I’ve not quilted wool before and am unsure about how it quilts or what type of batting to use. Does anybody have any suggestions?
Cindy, in Norman, Ok
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 06:19:47 -0400 | From: Debby Kratovil <kratovil [at] his [dot] com
I am compiling a list of 12 blocks which will be converted to a paper piecing format that will commemorate events, people, etc from the 20th century. I need help from all you quilt historians! I have, of course, Barbara Brackman’s tome of pieced blocks, all the volumes of the Kansas City Star patterns, and a few other Ladies Art small catalogs. This will be a project for the year 2000 (I will not collect 2000 squares of fabric and then sew them into a quilt!!!)
Any ideas? Just send me a name of a block and I will research and design. I will post my results to the list. (Of course, I may end up with more than 12 blocks and have to have a run-off vote!) This is a request I received from: a quilt shop in California which does a Block of the Month. Thanks a bunch! Debby
Debby Kratovil — Quilter By Design kratovil [at] his [dot] com http://www.his.com/~queenb
Paper Piecing Patterns & More!
Mac Pfaffie 7570
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 14:07:07 -0400 | From: “John Cawley” <cawley [at] goeaston [dot] net
My address book has been vaporized. Please, friends, E-mail me so I can restore it. N.B. John did this not me. Lucky for him he’s so cute or I’d be really angry.
Cinda on the Eastern Shore
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 14:09:54 -0600 | From: Brooke Flynn <brookeflynn [at] mcn [dot] net
> Is anyone else going to be at VQF?
Me, me, I will be there! and John Flynn who has one workshop this year, I think. I love the Vermont Quilt Festival and agree it’s a lovely show and a real treat to see the antique quilts. I really enjoy looking at the quilt display because the quilts are not hung in the usual “U” configuration, they are on special racks so that you can get close or far away so you can get the overall impact. It is a special show!
Stop by and say hello )
Brooke
Flynn Quilt Frame Company
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 07:54:04 EDT | From: CToczek [at] aol [dot] com
Hi everyone,
In regards to the Vermont Quilt Festival, some of Sharon Newman’s (of the reproduction fabric lines with Moda) antique quilts will be on display. I’ve seen a few of them and they’re lovely. Sharon will be there, too, but I can’t remember if she’s lecturing or appraising. Unfortunately, I won’t be going. Here I am on the east coast, but instead we’re heading west and south for family visits and vacation. Maybe next summer.
Best wishes,
Carla Toczek, West Point NY
P.S. The in-laws live 45 minutes from Shipshewana, IN and I hear the Amish (Mennonite?) community there is interesting. Should I hint at the drive?
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 00:04:13 +1000 | From: nomad1 <nomad1 [at] ibm [dot] net
I am hoping that a learned quilter historian will be able to help answer a question. SSI Fabrics have put out quite a few ranges of Matters of the Heart by Kaye England. I know she wrote Book 1 and 2, both of which I have.However, does anyone know how many lines were put out and where the designs came from i.e which museum etc.
I would appreciate any information with many thanks. Hiranya from Sydney, Australia > where I saw the floral Matters bolt sell out within 1/2 hour of unpacking!
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 16:01:16 EDT | From: TDSQUILTER [at] aol [dot] com
I would be interested in knowing about charitable projects that quilt groups are involved in. Quilters are very generous and caring people and I know there must be lots going on.
Ruth in FL
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 21:13:16 -0400 | From: Kathy <DeSchuit [at] mediaone [dot] net
> I would be interested in knowing about charitable projects that quilt groups are involved in. Quilters are very generous and caring people and I know there must be lots going on.
> Ruth in FL
Ruth,
The guild I belong to in Manchester, NH gives to various projects monetarily from: the proceeds of our quilt show but the ones we make quilts for are ABC Quilts, a project we call XYZ quilts (quilts for those in area nursing homes), and we work with students who need community service hours by helping them make quilts for our XYZ project.
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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 21:16:34 -0300 | From: susan silva <woody [at] ior [dot] com>
Hi all you QHL’rs
I had to respond to Ann’s request back in V163 about when you should or shouldn’t buy an old quilt. Price has alot to do with my decision, but as an owner of over 50 antique quilts, my decision is based on price and does it talk to me. In other words, does the torn red and faded green tell me a story of a special quilt that was made and used, and now doesn’t have someone to love an appreciate it? Well I’d give it a good home and when my dh or son, or anyone for that matter says “why would you buy that old torn rag”, my response is, “when you are 120 years old, you’ll have some ripped and torn places too”! I must admit I just love the old textiles and have a particular weakness for red/green quilts. I own two and they are both well loved, but the quilting is awesome on both, and when i hang them on the wall or drape over a chain with the “backside” showing they are lovely. So my advise to Ann would be “if it speaks to you” you simply must take it home. Plus anything that is signed and dated is a treasure as they are quite rare to find. e-mail me Ann if I can assist.
Take care all
Susan C.Silva in sunny Spokane Washington
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 05:59:35 -0500 | From: Phil & Lee Spanner <philspan [at] mail [dot] win [dot] bright [dot] net
>I would be interested in knowing about charitable projects that quilt groups are involved in. Quilters are very generous and caring people and I know there must be lots going on.
I am a state rep for the MN/WI chapter of Project Warm Fuzzies. We make and deliver quilts to the kids at Shriner’s hospital. In TN many of them go to St. Judes. If you interested in more info, you can visit the following URL http://www.win.bright.net/~philspan/pwf.html
This will tell you a little about the quilts I deliver, and you can also use the link and go to the main site to see what else is going on with the project.
Sincerely,
Lee “^)
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:37:50 -0400 | From: roosien <roosien [at] gateway [dot] net
The guild I belong to does two things. We make baby quilts for one of the hospitals Neo Natal Unit. They give out these quilts to the families of “premies”. The other project we are invloved in is “Dolls and Doll Quilts for the Santa Claus Girls”. We buy new dolls and make doll quilts to go with them. Then the Wise Men (which is part of the YWCA/YMCA deliver. Last year we had over 250 dolls/quilts donated.
Chris in Michigan
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:51:23 EDT | From: QuiltsRI [at] aol [dot] com
Has anyone read the article about old and new toiles in July 1999 HOUSE BEAUTIFUL mag? It says ” Though Jouy-style toile is intimately identified with the French decorative arts, it was actually the creation of an Irishman, Francis Nixon, working outside Dublin in 1752. The fashion sped to England before reaching France through Oberkampf espionage. The companies spies copied Nixon’s designs and formulas onto cloth with invisible ink.” I haven’t head this story before. Any comments ???
Cathy Smith
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:19:00 -0700 | From: “Julia D. Zgliniec” <rzglini1 [at] san [dot] rr [dot] com
Dear Cathy and QHL,
It was Nixon, I believe who developed the copperplate printing process along with others in England. This made the wonderfully detailed engraved designs possible.
Julia
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:06:25 -0600 | From: Jocelyn <jocelynm [at] sw1 [dot] socwel [dot] ukans [dot] edu
Ruth,
My ‘real world’ guild makes nap quilts for Head Start, which meets in the same church as we do.
The Sunshine Guild (online) makes quilts for the International Red Cross. We had prepared a shipment for orphanages in Siberia, when the war broke out in Kosovo. The first shipment was diverted to: Kosovo, and the guildmistress asked if we thought it would be possible to meet the IRC’s request for a hundred more. The last I heard, there were SEVERAL hundred more made and donated. (I’m not sure if I’d be exaggerating to say 1000). Unlike our regular quilts, the IRC suggests we use polyester, since it dries faster. If you’re living in a refugee camp, having quick-drying bedding is more important than preserving it for decades. <G> It’s a good way to get rid of the poly-cotton you accidentally bought. <G> Many of the quilts are tied, because it’s better to make two tied tops than to elaborately quilt one, especially if it’s going to a refugee camp where it’ll be exposed to the weather, or to an orphanage where it’ll be exposed to kids dragging it around or frequent washings.
Jocelyn
Jocelynm [at] delphi [dot] com
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 13:38:41 EDT | From: Pennstudd [at] aol [dot] com
Dear Ruth,
Although I don’t belong to an official guild, I belong to a group of older women who make quilts for at risk babies and we ship a lot through Lutheran relief. I make at least 1 quilt a week (tied) and give to either our local hospice group or the V.A. hospital for there care patients. Nothing feels better than to give something to someone. In fact every time I make a quilt my wife inquires rather we will get this one for our bed or not, at most it is on our bed for a day and off to someone who really needs it. Cheers and happy quilting Bill
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 13:18:15 +0400 | From: Xenia Cord <xecord [at] netusa1 [dot] net
Quilt America sponsors an on-going project called the “Yes Mam!”� Mammogram Challenge, where quilters are challenged to make fundraising quilts and donate the proceeds for free/at cost mammograms in their home communities. The quilts are made using fabric from Quilt America, and can be entered in a non-juried competition each year for awards based on technical merit. A challenge grant sponsored by American Patchwork & Quilting and South Sea Imports goes to the quilt raising the most funds each year.
For information, write Quilt America, 2217 Avalon Ct., Kokomo, IN 46902-3101.
To: date (before the 1999 show which is July 8-11 in Indianapolis), the project has raised over $150,000 across the country.
Xenia
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 22:16:53 -0400 | From: “Store E-Mail Acct.” <qps [at] quiltingposs [dot] com>
To: <QHL [at] cuenet [dot] com>
A complete list of NJ guilds and contacts can be found at the State Quilt Guild of NJ’s web page.
www.njquilts.org
Debbie in NJ
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 09:22:04 -0400 | From: roosien <roosien [at] gateway [dot] net
Bill!!! What a dear sweet man you are to give quilts as you do. You have a real gift of giving. May you be blessed!!!
Chris in Michigan
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 09:54:18 EDT | From: [from unknown, signed “Jill in Centerville, IN”]
Xenia,
I am fairly new to quilting and would like to know more about this show.
Where will it be held in Indy?.
Our little town just finished its quilt show. And although it was small in size it was wonderful to see the works of art hanging in the old historic Mansion House Inn. This was the first time I have ever displayed a quilt at a show and I just felt so proud seeing it hanging there <shy grin>. By the way, all the stories of charity quilts are wonderful. It is so great knowing there are such giving people in this world.
Regards.
Jill in Centerville, IN
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 09:28:52 -0600 | From: Jocelyn <jocelynm [at] sw1 [dot] socwel [dot] ukans [dot] edu
S> h or son, or anyone for that matter says “why would you buy that old torn
> rag”, my response is, “when you are 120 years old, you’ll have some ripped and torn places too”!
Or, in the immortal words of Yoda, ‘When 300 years old you are, look so good you will not, hmmmm?’ <G>
Jocelyn
Jocelynm [at] delphi [dot] com
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:57:33 EDT | From: Hazelmacc [at] aol [dot] com
I want to remind everyone that Celebration 99 is held in Marion, Indiana (just north of Indy) on July 15-18, 1999. Shiela Betterton, Bath, England will be inducted into The Hall of Fame. Although from England she is recognized as an authority on American quilts having developed an outstanding textile collection for the Ameican Museum in Britain – the only American museum outside our borders. In her honor a quilt exhibit “Turning the Tide British Quilts from American Collections” will be presented at the Marion Public Library, 600 Washington Street in downtown Marion. A second exhibit will present 200 quilt blocks from the collection of Honoree Cuesta Benberry, St. Louis, MO. The title of this show is “Evidences of Friendship The Quilt Block Collection of Cuesta Benberry”. The title helps explain that the blocks are from friends that Cuesta has acquired over her many years of quilt history research and as a quilt historian. She will be giving a lecture on Friday to further explain her collection. The Quilters Hall of Fame is celebrating its 20th year at this Celebration, having been founded in Arlington, Virginia at The Continental Quilting Congress. For newcomers to the quilting community, that Congress was one of the first quilt conventions on the East Coast – there were ten and now my focus is on the work of the restoration of the Marie Webster home in Marion – where the Hall of Fame will be housed.
Honoree Marie Webster was born in July, thus the reason for selecting this warm month for our Celebration. Marie Webster wrote the first definitive book on quilt history. Her book has been reprinted by her granddaughter, Rosalind Webster Perry
Quilts, Their Story and How to Make Them.
For further information you can visit our Web site www.west.net/~rperry/qhf.html, and for registration information contact the office at P.O. Box 68l, Marion 46952. Or contact me before July 11 when I will be heading for Marion.
Hazel Carter
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:25:45 -0700 | From: “R & L Carroll” <Robert.J.Carroll [at] GTE [dot] net
Hello Cinda.
What a wonderful experience you had yesterday. I have only been to the
Smithsonian once and they had ONE quilt on display. The Harriet Powers quilt. I was very disappointed because I had read about all the wonderful quilts that they have.
Please explain about the metal drawers that the quilts are kept in.
Are the quilts laying out flat in huge drawers, unfolded??? Seems like that would be the best way to store them, thats for sure, but would take up so much room.
Laurette in So. California.
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:20:31 -0400 | From: “John Cawley” <cawley [at] goeaston [dot] net
I’ve been to Ali Babba’s cave!
Yesterday I went to the
Smithsonian with Phyllis Twigg for the quilt tour. I can only say that it exceeded our expectations. Well, obviously, I can say much more than that. There were eight people on the tour; it lasted an hour and a half; the guide was very knowledgeable about quilts (this is not always the case in museums, as you probably know). The entire collection (approx. 380 quilts and tops plus blocks and fragments) is housed in one, not terribly large, room which contains a muslin covered table, a computer, a desk and about a dozen metal storage units each containing 15 or so shallow drawers. Our guide gave us a roughly chronological overview of American quiltmaking beginning with a quilted petticoat and some whole cloth quilts. She moved from drawer to drawer and we got up close and personal with some of the most famous quilts in the world. It was look, but don’t touch. We could lean over the drawers and there was nothing between us and the quilts. We saw many of the quilts pictured in the Smithsonian Treasury of American Quilts: the Smuggler’s Quilt (18th century palampore), a Hewson print applique, the Copp Quilt–the colors are incredible, no wonder it was chosen for the repro fabric line, the Groom’s Quilt and Little Sister’s (that may have been my favorite because of it’s yellow, cheddar and red color scheme), Vanity of Vanities Quilt, the Russelville
Fairgrounds. You get the idea.
This tour is available once a month for a maximum of eight people.
Staff limitations and reluctance to expose the quilts to light were the explanation for the strict limits. I asked what additions were being made to the collection and the guide said that they were being very particular because there isn’t room for many more quilts. They have one art quilt from the seventies, almost nothing from the twenties and thirties. Now let’s think about this: more quilts are being made today than ever before.
Many of these are as worthy of preservation as the masterpieces of the past. The new storage facility is great, but it needs to be twice as big.
We stopped to check out the quilt in the case donated by the American Quilt Defense Fund (this is changed every six months).
Nearby are the only other quilts (with the exception of the Harriet Powers) displayed in the museum. They were the same four or five quilts I saw in the same display the last time I was at the museum which was at least three years ago. Wouldn’t you think they would rotate what’s on display! I don’t mean to sound like a curmudgeon, but it seems pretty obvious that quilts are not a priority.
Cinda on the Eastern Shore
From: “Jeanne Fetzer” <jeannefetzer [at] integrityonline3 [dot] com Can you tell me how this quilt exhibit was arranged for, please. I am going to Washington July 21-26 and would be in quilt heaven for such a tour. Thanks!
Jeanne Fetzer in Salt Lake City, UT jeanne.fetzer [at] integrityonline3 [dot] com
Dear Cinda. Sometimes I have the idea that “having” is more important to a lot of museums than “showing”.
Judy White – Ct
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:34:07 -0000 | From: “Jeanne Fetzer” <jeannefetzer [at] integrityonline3 [dot] com
Can you tell me how this quilt exhibit was arranged for, please. I am going to Washington July 21-26 and would be in quilt heaven for such a tour. Thanks!
Jeanne Fetzer in Salt Lake City, UT jeanne.fetzer [at] integrityonline3 [dot] com
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 06:28:03 -0400 | From: “jawhite [at] courant [dot] infi [dot] net” <jawhite [at] courant [dot] infi [dot] net
Dear Cinda. Sometimes I have the idea that “having” is more important to: a lot of museums than “showing”.
Judy White – Ct
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 07:24:52 -0500 | From: Laura Hobby Syler <texas_quilt.co [at] mail [dot] airmail [dot] net
OK, can anyone tell me what the deal is? Did the last sale of the magazine take it off the distributors list? Back when I had my subscription I could find them everywhere…..even the airport. Now I cant find them at all, no grocery stores anywhere near her (within 3 counties) no drug stores, not even at Barnes & Nobel or Borders……….I know it isn’t “the bible of quilting” that it used to be, but I’d at least like to leaf through it to see what’s going on.
any one heard anything? Maybe when Cindy get’s back from Omaha she can check with her former co-workers and see what the deal is………
Laura
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 07:43:19 -0400 | From: “A.A. Harkavy” <aah [at] maine [dot] rr [dot] com
For those who have complained that getting the “host” to “respond”
when going to PineTree quiltworks … please go to
www.quiltworks.com
This is a direct address and should respond almost instantaneously.
(Please make a bookmark!)
Addy
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 08:15:31 -0400 | From: “John Cawley” <cawley [at] goeaston [dot] net
I agree, Judy. I’m sure it’s hard to find the balance between the preservation function and the education mission of museums, but I suspect that the curatorial mind wants to squirrel things away.
Cinda
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 09:07:08 -0400 | From: roosien <roosien [at] gateway [dot] net
Bill, you have really touched my heart this morning. You’ve taken a tragedy and made it into something positive. And you’ve chosen quilting as your medium. To be so young and have such insight . . . Isn’t that why we’re all here? To make someone elses day better somehow? And that’s what you do in giving your quilts away.
Sincerely,
Chris
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 99 09:08:15 -0500 | From: Woodford <woodford [at] ix [dot] netcom [dot] com
Thanks to Phyllis Twigg for the suggestion of the Photek Support System and all the info. I received mine and believe it’s going to be a great boon for both taking pictures and for hanging quilts at shows.
Barbara Woodford
Historic American Quilts
Woodford woodford [at] ix [dot] netcom [dot] com
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 10:38:25 -0600 | From: Jocelyn <jocelynm [at] sw1 [dot] socwel [dot] ukans [dot] edu
I was reading in one of my books about quilting each block and then attaching them to the others, has anyone ever tried it and if so, does it work well?
Bill,
It depends upon whether you like, or are good at, slip-stitching. The blocks have to be put together by hand at the end of it, so it’s really a matter of personal taste as to which way is ‘better’. My mom has done the block-quilting route, but personally, I think that slip-stitching the blocks together is not very fun and creative, and I’d hate to have a lot of ‘because you have to, that’s why’ work left at the end of the fun and creative stuff. Binding a quilt is about as much drudgery as I can take! <G
Jocelyn
Jocelynm [at] delphi [dot] com
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 11:02:08 -0400 | From: “Phyllis Twigg” <ptwigg [at] radix [dot] net
Barbara,
So glad that you like the telescopic quilt stand! I tend to laugh at myself sometimes…I was so enthralled with the bag ! Just like a kid at Christmas who plays with the box, never mind the toy that came in it.
Phyllis
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Thanks to Phyllis Twigg for the suggestion of the Photek Support System and all the info. I received mine and believe it’s going to be a great boon for both taking pictures and for hanging quilts at shows.
Barbara Woodford
Historic American Quilts
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 13:08:06 -0400 | From: “Phyllis Twigg” <ptwigg [at] radix [dot] net
Thanks to the several QHL’ers who advised me on what to see in center city
Philadelphia, I had a great day yesterday visiting M. Finkel &
Daughter (antique textiles and period furniture) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
At the museum I spent some time in the Pennsylvania German exhibits.
I kept thinking how great this would be if Barb Garrett were there to explain it all to me.
I picked up two books: Quilts(bulletin), Vol. 85 from Fall 1989, “Nineteenth-Century Applique Quilts” in the half-price museum store.
It was
48 pages and an excellent buy for $ 4.00 !!
In the full price store I bought 19th Century European Textiles (Dying and
Wallpaper), the Kamei Collection, 1990, $25. The first half of the book shows pictures of fabric swatches…463 of them to be exact. There is no text except for a two page introduction on the collection’s origin. I wish there were dates on the swatches but there is not. However, I found many pictures of fabrics I have seen in early quilts which we commonly think of as being made on the eastern seaboard in order to have access to European fabrics coming in by ship. Does anyone own this book ? How have you used it?
Phyllis
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 13:31:49 -0700 | From: Audrey Waite <awquiltr [at] sedona [dot] net
Hi all:
Received a notice in the mail today about an auction in NM which includes “Museum Collection, Hand Made Quilts” …patterns named are Mariner’s Compass, Lone Star, Applique, Double Wedding Ring, Wedding Star, Sampler, Carpenter’s Wheel, Basket Weave and more! It’s this weekend at the historic Thunderbird Ranch 70 miles from Albuquerque just off I-40 in Milan, exit 79. Sounds like they are having a lot of neat stuff. If anyone goes, I’d be interested in hearing what the quilts go for.
Audrey Waite in sunny, hot Sedona, AZ
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:44:18 -0500 (CDT) | From: Carol H Elmore <celmore [at] ksu [dot] edu
Since I work at a library I get to see new reference books. We just got an interesting one called “Little-known museums in and around
Berlin” by Rachel Kaplan. One museum is the Berlin Teddy (as in Teddy
Bear) Museum. Others are the Museum of Musical Instruments, Marzahn Village Museum–Collections from the Handicrafts Museum and Hairdressing
Museum, and one that mentions textiles–The Farmer’s House and the Pickle
Museum. Also I just read about a new search engine http://www.yep.com.
You can choose whether you want sites that are based more on quality or on popularity. I am happy to report that when I searched under “antique quilts” Hickory Hill Quilts came up first.
Carol Elmore
Manhattan, Kansas
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:00:27 +0000 | From: Bobbie Aug <qwltpro [at] uswest [dot] net
Dear Carla,
Sharon and I have a display of quilts made in vertical sets – both antique and new. Some are from our book, String Quilts with Style and some have been photographed for our book that is coming out in January called Vertical Quilts with Style. In addition, Sharon has some of her quilts made in the 1930’s on display.
Sharon and I will be teaching the AQS 2 day Appraisal Skills Course on Appraising for Insurance Value. In addition, I will teach the AQS 1 day Appraisal Skills
Course on Appraising for Fair Market, Earning Power and Donation. I will also be teaching a seminar called Antique Quilt Commentary with Gerald Roy.
Sharon will be teaching a 1 day quiltmaking class, but I don’t recall which one.
Bobbie Aug
Colorado Springs
CToczek [at] aol [dot] com wrote:
Hi everyone,
In regards to the Vermont Quilt Festival, some of Sharon Newman’s (of the reproduction fabric lines with Moda) antique quilts will be on display. I’ve seen a few of them and they’re lovely. Sharon will be there, too, but I can’t remember if she’s lecturing or appraising. Unfortunately, I won’t be going. Here I am on the east coast, but instead we’re heading west and south for family visits and vacation. Maybe next summer.
Best wishes,
Carla Toczek, West Point NY
P.S. The in-laws live 45 minutes from Shipshewana, IN and I hear the Amish (Mennonite?) community there is interesting. Should I hint at the drive?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:51:00 +0000 | From: Bobbie Aug <qwltpro [at] uswest [dot] net
Laura, Quilt stores still carry QNM but I think you’ll find that drug stores, etc. are limiting the amounts of quilting and craft magazines tremendously. I did a visual check about a week ago and over 2/3 of the magazines at this particular Walgreen Drug where I was shopping were for men basically. I’m thinking that men in general, are less likely to subscribe to various magazines and perhaps rely more heavily on counter sales. I visit online with Mary Leman Austin frequently, and I can assure you that QNM is alive and well as is Quiltmaker. Primedia is very happy with their latest purchase.
Bobbie Aug
Colorado Springs
Laura Hobby Syler wrote
> OK, can anyone tell me what the deal is? Did the last sale of the magazine take it off the distributors list? Back when I had my subscription I could find them everywhere…..even the airport. Now I cant find them at all, no grocery stores anywhere near her (within 3 counties) no drug stores, not even at Barnes & Nobel or Borders……….I know it isn’t “the bible of quilting” that it used to be, but I’d at least like to leaf through it to see what’s going on.
> any one heard anything? Maybe when Cindy get’s back from Omaha she can check with her former co-workers and see what the deal is………
> Laura
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:19:28 -0500 | From: “Mann, Dannie” <dcmann [at] ingr [dot] com
Hi,
I’m interested in finding a pattern for the quilt made by Frances Johnston of Cherry Hill, North Carolina, in 1860. It is an appliqued Cotton Boll pattern.
I’ve also seen one made by Erma Kirpatrick of North Carolina in QNM, March
1990, page 6 (but no pattern included).
If anyone has any information on this particular pattern, please email me.
Thanks,
Dannie Mann
Madison, AL
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:53:36 EDT | From: BEVPEV [at] aol [dot] com
A special thank you to Bill for sharing his story with us. I do disagree on one point, however. I think a very important part of quilt history is the fact that people have used quilting as a way of coping with life’s challenges and celebrating life’s blessings. It sounds like you are using it in both ways, Bill. Bless you!
