August 8 – 14, 1999
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Primary topics of this QHL Digest:
- Mystery Quilting Stamp — Members help identify a hand-carved wooden quilting stamp, eventually tracing the associated artifact to Florida’s Lightner Museum.
- Reproduction and ‘Black’ Quilts — A pointed discussion about what, if anything, defines a ‘black quilt’ stylistically, and whether reproduction quilts can be fairly attributed to a particular race or ethnicity.
- Hawaiian Applique Imports — The ongoing imports conversation extends to inexpensive Hawaiian-style applique quilts made overseas and sold as ‘Hawaiian style.’
- Quilt Magazine Subscriptions — Members compare notes on which quilt magazines are worth subscribing to as they trim down their own subscription lists.
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 08:23:37 EDT | From: Tubeywooby@
In a message dated 8/7/99 8:59:27 PM, QHL-Digest-request@ writes: << but it is a series of 1/4 circles that “kinda” stack up next to one another. >>
Drunkards Path?
(my mamas favorite)
Melissa
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 12:38:08 -0700 | From: “pepper cory” <pepcory@>
I agree with Laura. Most wooden quilting stamps I’ve seen are carved from a dark wood and have patina–this looks like oak ( one of the heaviest woods) and is rather light-toned. On the back of the item there should be either handles (or the remnants thereof-) or carved indentations that would make it easier for a woman to grasp and stamp the design. Plus, the very regular rounded cable does not have the feel of a quilting border cable–looks too rounded and it’s very wide. I’d go with Laura’s assessment on this one-it’s a modern architectural detail being sold, perhaps out of ignorance, as a quilt stamp. The fact that there’s chalk remnants on it mean nothing–perhaps someone thought it might make a good quilt stamp and gave it a try. Hey Teddy Pruett–if you’re out there–can you get your wooden quilt stamp up on the web? Now THERE’S a real quilt stamp!
Pepper
PS-recently a number of Indian fabric printing stamps have been coming up on Ebay and offered as quilting designs. The dealers I have contacted profess ignorance and say they were sold the items as American artifacts.
Buyer beware!
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 11:28:37 -0800 | From: susan@
Hello everyone–
I am a relatively new quilter; I am handquilting my first wallhanging. I started a rotary cut quilt which I also work on. I have several books on quilting and some friends who quilt.
I retired from 29 years of teaching high school–English and Business–in February. I relish the time and look forward to pursuing my hobbies which are gardening, quilting and cross stitching. Oh, and my doctor told me I have to start listing exercise as my #1 hobby…haven’t got there yet, though! 😉
I got started on this hobby of quilting when I was cleaning out a closet and once again handled the quilt top my grandmother had made for me. She passed away before she could put it together, but the top is finished. It is a double pinwheel and now that I have learned to hand quilt I want to start on that soon. I don’t know what the tradition would have been at that time (the 50′) regarding the type of hand quilting. Would she have followed the lines or would something else be appropriate. If something else would be appropriate, would someone let me know or direct me to a site where I might find the information. I don’t particularly want to quilt all those lines, but will if that is what would have been done. Also, what would have been used as a backing? A lady at a quilt shop told me musling. Does that seem correct?
I want to finish the quilt as it would have been at that time.
Thanks for any help.
Virginia susan@
“It is only with the heart that one can see. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” Saint-Exupery
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 14:29:19 -0700 | From: Audrey Waite <awquiltr@>
Prowling around an antique mall this week I found a postcard picturing quilts and coverlets at the Lightner Museum of Hobbies in St. Augustine, FL. Never heard of this place. There was no date…only other markings are an identification number on the photo of quilts and coverlets 2-D-672 and on the address side of the card #15 in a circle, like there was a series of cards printed. Anyone seen quilts on display there? Audrey Waite in sunny and hot Sedona, AZ
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 15:05:50 -0700 | From: Audrey Waite <awquiltr@>
Don’t know where I heard about this company but they offer only wide width fabric, 90-120″. I was surprised to find they have a repro of an early 19th century pheasant fabric in two colorways. Seems like it would be a great source for you quilt restorers.
http://www.fabricloft.com
No affiliation, etc. etc.
Audrey Waite
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 15:35:32 PDT | From: “Anne Copeland” <anneappraiser@>
Hi, Searched the Internet and found Lightner Museum Elephant, which is apparently one of the artifacts at this museum. It seems like a strange museum–sort of a Ripley’s Believe It or Not, so I am not sure it has coverlets, but if you search under Lightner Museum of Hobbies, it comes up, and it IS located in St. Augustine. Cheers, Anne By the way, often when someone is trying to locate something, that is how I find it–just search under the words. Try different search engines too. Alta Vista is usually the one that yields the most results for me. Anne Copeland
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 18:42:19 -0400 (EDT) | From: quiltsnbearswebtv.net (Roberta in Florida)
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The museum is now just called The Lightner Museum and I don’t remember ever seeing quilts there, but there’s so much stuff and it’s been a couple of years. Their phone number is 904-824-2874 if anyone is really curious.
Roberta
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 23:30:12 EDT | From: MKowale193aol.com
I also agree this is not a quilt stamp…..nothing like the ones i’ve ever seen.
There was a good early Pennsylvania wooden quilt stamp sold at South Pointe Antiques about 3 months ago I will try to get a pic from the man that bought it and post it so you can see it. On the back was a 4 inch carved pc that formed the handle. Nice patina, just the way you like to see them.
Marilyn Kowaleski
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 12:26:09 -0500 | From: Laura Hobby Syler <texas_quilt.comail.airmail.net>
Pepper and all,
I did hear back from the owner of the item….as with most quilting design it doesn’t translate well to photograph. He says that the veins are raised and the “space” has been carved away. It has a piece of leather nailed on the back for a strap….says it came from England about 10 years ago. I’m still a little suspicious. Like Pepper says it’s just “too”….too light, too regular, too new looking. That’s not to say that it’s not intended to be a quilt stamp, just not as old as the owner may think….at least that’s MHO!
And as Pepper also says, the Indian ones are fairly available….especially at Paducah <G>
Laura
At 12:38 PM 8/8/99 -0700, pepper cory wrote:
>I agree with Laura. Most wooden quilting stamps I’ve seen are carved from a dark wood and have patina–this looks like oak ( one of the heaviest woods) and is rather light-toned. On the back of the item there should be either handles (or the remnants thereof-) or carved indentations that would make it easier for a woman to grasp and stamp the design. Plus, the very regular rounded cable does not have the feel of a quilting border cable–looks too rounded and it’s very wide. I’d go with Laura’s assessment on this one-it’s a modern architectural detail being sold, perhaps out of ignorance, as a quilt stamp. The fact that there’s chalk remnants on it mean nothing–perhaps someone thought it might make a good quilt stamp and gave it a try. Hey Teddy Pruett–if you’re out there–can you get your wooden quilt stamp up on the web? Now THERE’S a real quilt stamp! Pepper
>PS-recently a number of Indian fabric printing stamps have been coming up on Ebay and offered as quilting designs. The dealers I have contacted profess ignorance and say they were sold the items as American artifacts. Buyer beware!
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 12:47:26 -0600 | From: Jocelyn <jocelynmsw1.socwel.ukans.edu>
> Black quilts have no particular style that identifies them – in order to be a black quilt THEY MUST BE MADE BY A PERSON OF AFRICAN AMERICAN RACE. I can NEVER make a “black” quilt. Only a person of African decent can make a black quilt. Period.
This strikes me as pretty tacky–I think we’d all agree that labeling a quilt a ‘white’ or ‘Caucasian’ quilt would be tacky, if not downright racist. If the label doesn’t apply to anything more than the ethnic identity of the quilter, why would that be of any importance? Take, for example, gospel and jazz. We wouldn’t say that all African-Americans sing nothing but gospel or jazz…but it’s fairly well established that those art forms came from the African- American community. It seems to me that if there is a distinctive style of quilting developed by African-Americans, that labeling it with that name is appropriate, just as it was appropriate to divide ‘religious music’ into traditional and gospel subtypes. But if all that’s meant is that we’re making a distinction as to the color of the hands that stitched the quilt….well… it seems to me that some very unattractive motives would be attached to a desire to do that. Amish quilts originally symbolized a quilt made by an Amish person, from a particular tradition of pattern and color choice that was prevalent within that community. If an Amish woman were to make a quilt using mainstream quilting fabrics, colors, patterns and techniques, is it an ‘Amish’ quilt? Likewise, if a non-Amish woman were to purchase her fabrics from the same sources used by Amish women, and used the same patterns and methods, would it be an Amish quilt?
Jocelyn
Jocelynmdelphi.com
> I have seen this same work in a lot of quilts some dealers have sold as Afro-American. I know the quilts I was looking at were from white families in Alabama. Does this sound typical of quilts from Alabama? (anyone?)
This sounds sort of similar to the Baptist Fan, which was a common quilting pattern in the area of Mississippi where my mother grew up. My grandmother would start on one edge of the quilt with a saucer and jar lids, drawing semi-circles. She would put partial semi-circles in between the ‘hills’ of the previous rows. It was a simple pattern to quilt…no effort to make everything match or precisely line up…and dense enough to hold the hand-made batts from her own cotton. I’ve also heard it called ‘clamshell’, although clamshell often applies to a more structured pattern. Depending on one’s affiliation, I’ve heard it called Methodist Fan, too. <G> The ‘Fan’ names come from the practice of funeral homes printing up colorful fans that were placed in church pews. The ‘best’ fans were in three pieces…you could fan yourself with just the center section, or you could pull out two side flaps and have a full semi-circle fan. I remember going to revivals in my childhood, where the church would be filled with ladies busily flapping those fans! In the full form, you could fan yourself and a sleeping child next to you. I wish I’d saved a few, but of course they were a common fixture back then, and nobody really thought that they’d ever be obsolete! (plus, my mama would’ve killed me for taking them from the church!) I can imagine a quilting circle down in the basement of a church, and one lady is fanning the others who are quilting, and someone says, ‘Lemme see that thing a minute, Thelma Sue’…and we’re off and running! <G>
Jocelyn
Jocelynmdelphi.com
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 12:57:30 -0600 | From: Jocelyn <jocelynmsw1.socwel.ukans.edu>
> how could you look at any style of quilting and say it belongs to only one race/ethnicity/region/ etc?
Beth,
Not that it BELONGS to only one…but perhaps that it originated in a particular place or culture?
Jocelyn
Jocelynmdelphi.com
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 13:08:24 -0600 | From: Jocelyn <jocelynmsw1.socwel.ukans.edu>
> I don’t know what the tradition would have been at that time (the 50′) regarding the type of hand quilting. Would she have followed the lines or would something else be appropriate. If something else would be appropriate, would someone let me know or direct me to a site where I might find the information. I don’t particularly want to quilt all those lines, but will if that is what would have been done.
> Also, what would have been used as a backing? A lady at a quilt shop told me musling. Does that seem correct?
My grandmother used muslin for the quilts she made, although she had pretty well quit making them by the 1950s. I would guess that there would have been some quilters using muslin during the 1950s. Personally, I think it gives a nice old-fashioned look, and I use it a lot with my own quilts (but then, I like to make old- fashioned tops).
Quilting patterns seem to vary more with the maker’s time, taste and talents, than with the decade, in my experience. If a woman had plenty of leisure, she’d put in more quilting than if she were just trying to keep her kids warm that winter. Despite that, my grandmother HAD to quilt heavily, because she made her own batts from her own cotton. Each batt was about the size of her hand, and if she didn’t quilt it a lot, it’d shift with wear. If she were quilting with today’s batts, I’m sure she’ d be making very different decisions about quilting patterns! If a woman DID have plenty of time for ‘fancy quilting’, the patterns she’d select tended to be those that’d give her room to show off her work, like feathers and scrolls with crosshatching. I’d imagine that there were women who didn’t like all that, and who made quilts without it, too. I have a double wedding ring that is as red as a tomato, even though the books will tell you the 1930s were the years for the DWR, and for pastels, too. Obviously, the woman who made this quilt either loved bright colors, or she made it long after the 1930s. So there are always contradictions to the rule.
I love to rescue UFOs, and have a fair collection of them. When it comes time to quilt them, I hold them and pet them awhile, and try to get into the mind of the person who made it (hey, it worked for Brenda P. and the Dear Jane quilt!). But ultimately, I don’t do anything *I* don’t like. One of my quilttops has quilting lines sketched onto it, and personally, I think she missed the boat on choosing the right quilting designs for it! <G> I still haven’t decided if I’m going to ignore her choice and go with mine, or quilt it ‘wrong’.
<G>
Jocelyn
Jocelynmdelphi.com
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 12:00:44 +0000 | From: Bobbie Aug <qwltprouswest.net>
Dear Xenia et al,
I would like to mention that in my opinion, reproductiions of any kind generally do not appreciate in value UNLESS it somehow becomes in vogue to collect such a thing. (Like Anne Copeland mentioned that it was popular to collect replicas of Fiesta Ware.)
So, I feel that when a $39.95 imported quilt is purchased at the department store – as soon as the customer walks out the door it becomes a “used”
$39.95 import quilt and worth much less.
Oftentimes reproductions do appreciate in value after 50 – 100 years, but if anyone has owned one of these imported quilts, they know that they don’t last 3 years! My observation and experiementation has proven about 3 washings and that’s about the life of one. So, before there is a market for these reproductions of American-made quilts, they will be long gone.
Bobbie Aug
Colorado Springs
Xenia Cord wrote:
> Another import applique is the Harriet Powers “Bible Quilt,” once licensed by the Smithsonian – one of the quilts that caused all the welcome uproar over the licensing of replicas (and poorly executed replicas at that)of our textile treasures.
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 19:16:57 -0400 | From: Alan Kelchner <quiltfixmail.jax.bellsouth.net>
Weeelllllll,
I’ve been to St Augustine MANY times (I live 1/2 hour away), but I have never heard of the Lightener Museum of Hobbies. Now there is THE Lightener Museum, but it’s definitely not a hobby museum in 1999 (I’m going to have to remember to check on this – maybe someone I know remembers the Lightener in a former “lifetime”). The current Lightener museum is like a mini-Smithsonian – paintings, porcelain, statuary Wait!
It’s been a couple of years since I was there – there was a quilt display in a “Victorian storefront”. I hadn’t thought about that in a while ……… Like I said, I’ll have to check this out (I also have an idea WHERE I’m going this weekend).
Alan
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 19:20:23 -0400 | From: Alan Kelchner <quiltfixmail.jax.bellsouth.net>
>>It seems like a strange museum–sort of a Ripley’s Believe It or Not,
so I am not sure it has coverlets,
LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s not like Ripleys, more like the Smithsonian in it’s plethora. And Ripleys is on the other side of town – believe it, or not ………..
Alan
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:52:18 -0500 | From: Mary Waller <mswaller@
About 20 QHL’ers e-‘d me for Yvonne Hollenbeck’s poem, ‘Ode to Smithsonian’ about the imported Chinese quilts, and several have responded how much they enjoyed it. Please let Yvonne know that; her e-mail address is: geetwo@
Yvonne is also a master quilter and has printed some of her poems in a small book, which she sells. She’s also got one about four generations of quilters in her family and the hardships they faced homesteading. It’s a thought-provoking tear-jerker, which I cannot remember the title of!
Yvonne also travels to perform her poems cowboy-poet style and show her quilts. I don’t know what quilt classes she’s currently doing. If you’re looking for an entertaining speaker/teacher, please consider her. If you can tune into South Dakota Public TV this Saturday at 4 pm CT/3 MT, she’ll be on their quilting fund raiser with ‘America Quilts’.
Thanks for your interest!
Mary Waller, Vermillion, South Dakota
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:48:23 EDT | From: MKowale193@
To all..
I would like to announce that my personal collection will be sold at auction on September 25, 1999. Most of the items that I kept all these years were bought in the 70’s. To be offered for sale will be a few full size quilts, crib quilts, and doll quilts, fabrics, homespun, old potholders, Amish wedding socks, rag dolls, fabric birds, fabric covered books, fabric dogs and cats, pincushions, velvet fruit, Amish wedding patches, folk art, and furniture and many other items. Just about everything that is being offered was found in either Lancaster or Berks County, Pa. To see highlights of the sale go to
http://members.aol.com/mkowale193/page/index.htm ale to be held at Horst Auction Center Ephrata, Pa.
Marilyn Kowaleski email http://www.mkowale193@
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:26:45 -0500 | From: “Peggy McBride” <jlmpam@
Over the years I have collected a lot of old quilting paper. Have most of the magazines in my collection. I had forgotten about a couple things that I have that I hadn’t thought about for awhile.
One is Tumbling Alley Notebook – got some copies of early ones recently and reminded me again. Can anyone tell me about this. I have issues 7-36. How much longer after issue 36 did they continue to publish. I would like to complete my set, even with copies (I would assume the copyright may be run out by now.) At any rate I would like more information about the publication.
The other is the Dutch Girl Scrap Book – have a number of copies of these and again would like to complete the set. Can anyone tell me any more about these publications.
Peggy Mc
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:08:16 -1000 | From: “Laurie Woodard” <lwoodard@>
Just wanted to mention that Hawaiian quilts also are very much part of this phenomena. With handmade, locally-made, Hawaiian applique quilts priced in the $2,000-$7,000 range, it’s not too surprising that there is a ready market here for traditional Hawaiian applique quilts, made in the Philippines and Thailand, which sell for maybe $800-$1,200. The quality of workmanship is steadily improving (and the prices rising accordingly). Frequently, the clue that these are not locally made is that they are advertised as *Hawaiian style.*
The designs themselves may be designs in the public domain (they are popular designs that have been around for a long time, etc.). The Reido Brandon, et.al. *Hawaiian Quilt* book often serves as a catalog for quilt designs. These are quilts from local museum collections: some of the designs are available elsewhere (what I’m calling *public domain*) while others are unique. Unfortunately, the second half of the catalog features quilts by contemporary Hawaiian quilters and their designs are also offered for sale without their permission or compensation. The most recent import quilts are showing original designs, some of which are quite nice. These quilts are not always labeled as to origin, or they are packaged and the tag is hidden. They are available in all the *best* gift shops as well as in the discount stores. Can’t remember how they are bound. Anyway, more fun for the antiques dealers and appraisers!
By the way, those “Old Hawaiian Quilt Stencils” currently for sale on eBay are contemporary and are used as craft stencils to paint designs on fabrics. They aren’t used in “traditional” Hawaiian quilting as quilt stencils in the sense of providing a template for quilting patterns. Contemporary quilters, of course, may decide to do just that, right?
—
Laurie Woodard
Researcher
Hawaiian Quilt Research Project
http://openstudio.hawaii.edu/hqrp/default.html
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 07:34:47 -0400 | From: Alan Kelchner <quiltfix@>
Well, in my book forwards AREN’T bad etiquette as long as their not offensive (smut/racism/etc). In terms of hoaxes, those forwards are often honest, earnest, benign ignorance of the virtual “real” world <g>. Other forwards are often quite interesting. If you get something like this, go to and check it for the current (and not so current) hoaxes. One listed is a variation of the one Maury sent, only it’s that Bill Gates will send you 5 bucks to try his system in an attempt to beat out AOL <G>. Any time you get an email that says someone can track the email, delete it. It ain’t so. And if/when it becomes so, I’m taking a hammer to the computer.
Alan who never gives his real email address in websites that ask for it and had no spam. The last fake address I left was notreal@ (this was for a freeware web accelerator that didn’t do anything appreciable).
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 07:39:43 -0400 | From: Alan Kelchner <quiltfix@>
Is it just me, or are any of you disturbed by the thought of people making imports into thing? This is not an extremist view that no quilt should ever become a teddy bear. What bothers me is that if we “push” this, I keep having visions of people who can’t identify them properly buying something “authentic” (for lack of a better word) and cutting them. That or the person just starts cutting up any quilt indiscriminately. I know that people are going to use quilts for cutters, but must we endorse it?
Alan the worry wart
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:12:51 -0500 | From: “Ann G. Hubbard” <ahubbard@>
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There is also a quilt shop called Sunshine and Shadows in Richmond, Il.
which is over the border on Rt. 12.
There are quilt shops allover Wisconsin. Nice one in genesee depot. The best thing to do is to get the quilters traveling companion which lists quilt shops all over the us, Canada and etc. There are quilt shops in Hales Corners, Janesville, Sun Prairie, Madison, Pewaukee, Racine, and etc. Maybe more people from WI will respond to the question. Quilting is very big in WI and Illinois, also. Ann from Lake of the Ozarks, MO.
Soon to go to the Chicago area and go on a large quilt shop run.
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:35:27 -0600 (CST) | From: magee@
To: “Ann G. Hubbard” <ahubbard@>
My favorite WI shop is in Sun Prairie, JJ Stitches. I am in fabric recovery so these days I try to buy only quilt history books and pamphlets. I’ve gotten hooked on Ebay and antique shops. Laurie
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 11:34:04 EDT | From: Lynbr20601@
i really have to cut back to only 3 on my quilt magazine subscriptions…and i’m looking for opinions…i presently subscribe to qnm,aqs,traditional patchwork quilting, bh&g quilting,quiltmaker and crazy ladies gazette…if you had to pick only 3…which ones would you pick and why?
jean
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 20:42:45 EDT | From: QuiltsRI@
I met a quilter today who recently bought a gold thimble that she loves for quilting. Now she’s looking for a gold thimble case. If anyone has any leads to find one, please e-mail me privately. Thanks, Cathy – melting in Maryland
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 99 19:33:03 PDT | From: “dhaynes5” <dhaynes5@>
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My choices for a magazine are for two
Quilter’s Newsletter and American Quilter Society
I read both of them from cover to cover.
DeAnna in beautiful Colorado dhaynes5@
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> i really have to cut back to only 3 on my quilt magazine subscriptions…and i’m looking for opinions…i presently subscribe to qnm,aqs,traditional patchwork quilting, bh&g quilting,quiltmaker and crazy ladies gazette…if you had to pick only 3…which ones would you pick and why? jean
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:45:22 +0000 | From: Bobbie Aug <qwltpro@>
I agree – QNM and AQS.
Bobbie, also in beautiful Colorado!
dhaynes5 wrote:
> My choices for a magazine are for two
> Quilter’s Newsletter and American Quilter Society
> I read both of them from cover to cover.
> DeAnna in beautiful Colorado dhaynes5@
> ———- i really have to cut back to only 3 on my quilt magazine subscriptions…and i’m looking for opinions…i presently subscribe to qnm,aqs,traditional patchwork quilting, bh&g quilting,quiltmaker and crazy ladies gazette…if you had to pick only 3…which ones would you pick and why? jean
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 10:44:14 EDT | From: Kittencat3@
Jean writes
<<
i really have to cut back to only 3 on my quilt magazine subscriptions…and i’m looking for opinions…i presently subscribe to qnm,aqs,traditional patchwork quilting, bh&g quilting,quiltmaker and crazy ladies gazette…if you had to pick only 3…which ones would you pick and why?
jean >>
My choice of those three would be QNM, AQS, and maybe Quiltmaker. I’m interested in history and news more than patterns, but Quiltmaker’s patterns have always been nice.
Good luck!
Lisa Evans
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:49:36 -0600 | From: Jocelyn <jocelynm@>
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> What bothers me is that if we “push”
> this, I keep having visions of people who can’t identify them properly buying something “authentic” (for lack of a better word) and cutting them.
Alan,
Wouldn’t the price alone tip them off? Or the store they purchased it at? So far as I know, Wal-Mart only stocks commecially made quilts, and never stocks one-of-a-kind merchandise.
Jocelyn
Jocelynm@
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 14:32:50 EDT | From: KareQuilt@
Would someone be willing to send me the poem? thanks.
Karen A.
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 13:42:19 -0500 (Central Daylight Time) | From: Mary Persyn <Mary.Persyn@>
I hit the delete button too fast and don’t remember who asked for the information about the Tumbling Alley Notebook and the Durch Girl Quilting Scrap Book. Here is the information from the OCLC database on the two titles. Tumbling Alley Notebook. Gainesville, FL: E L Brown, 5 v. 1973-1977. annual 1973, 5 issues yearly 1974-75; bimonthly Aug. 1975-May 1977.
Dutch Girl Quilting Scrap Book. Crete, IL: Dutch Girl Crafts, 7 v. 1976-1983. monthly. v.1,#1 (Dec. 1976) – v.
7, # 76 (Jan. 1983).
Hope this is the information you wanted.
Mary, who had a great time and learned a lot at the QHL conference.
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 18:13:03 -0500 | From: R D <holmr@>
I didn’t read the original posting — I hit delete when I get too far behind inmy emails. I am a quilter from Wisconsin, and know the northern Illinois area. If someone has a question, please email me privately and I will be glad to help you.
Also, the quilt shop in Genesee Depot has closed its doors. Donna in Wisconsin — who will be shopping at JJ Stitches in Sun Prairie tomorrow — one of my favorite quilt shops for color!
RE:
There is also a quilt shop called Sunshine and Shadows in Richmond, Il.
which is over the border on Rt. 12.
There are quilt shops allover Wisconsin. Nice one in genesee depot. The best thing to do is to get the quilters traveling companion which lists quilt shops all over the us, Canada and etc. There are quilt shops in Hales Corners, Janesville, Sun Prairie, Madison, Pewaukee, Racine, and etc.
Maybe more people from WI will respond to the question. Quilting is very big in
WI and Illinois, also. Ann from Lake of the Ozarks, MO. Soon to go to the Chicago area and go on a large quilt shop run.
and
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 23:09:50 EDT | From: KareQuilt@
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Thanks, Mary, for sending the Smithsonian Poem. Boy, I guess it’s been a rougher four months than I thought. How did I miss the fact that QHLers met somewhere?! where, when, and what did you do? Does someone have some stories to share? Do you do this every year? Same place? Anyone plan to go to the PA auction mentioned on here? If you do, I would love to hear about it. I will be out of town and unable to go, but would LOVE to have some of those Amish potholders.
Karen A.
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 11:47:19 -0600 | From: “Cindy Brick” <Brickworks@>
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I am really enjoying this discussion on “_____-made” quilts. Glad we’re having it.
If you subscribe to the NQA quarterly, you might want to read the profile on Rachel Clark. She had several fascinating things to say on this subject —
I am zoning out on which issue it appeared in, but think it was either fall 98 or winter 99.
Cindy
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:01:23 -0400 | From: Alan Kelchner <quiltfix@>
Jocelyn,
I wasn’t thinking of them going to WalMArt, etc, but doing what everyone seems to be doing these days – going to thrifts, fleamarkets, antiques shops, etc. Going nuts over making things from quilts and then being indiscriminate about what they use.
Buying them in places other than retail stores can make them cheaper …..
I guess what I want is to encourage respect for quilts, and if that includes that which really doesn’t deserve respect, so be it. I realized this morning that I *do* have a bias about cutting, big time. I go to a Saturday morning quilt group. This morning during show-n-tell, a woman displayed a pillow she made from a Depression quilt. Shoulda heard my gasp of horror – an automatic response that embarrassed myself. THEN she pulled out the center of the quilt, which she had rescued and recreated as a baby quilt. Whew! This, coming from a guy who has a GFG waiting to be repaired. Both ends are shredded, and there are holes down the center fold, through the front and back, The agreed upon work will not be reconstruction (we’re talking a couple of hundred hours work that they can’t afford and the quilt doesn’t justify), but whacking off the bad row on either end and splitting the quilt down the center length, removing the bad row, and then sewing it back together nice and neat.
I guess it’s the purpose of cutting into a quilt to make pillows and teddy bears that disturbs me.
Alan
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 20:33:02 -0500 | From: Karen Bush <Birdsong@>
> in to say hi..and welcome New ones!! I’ve been working on a new website, been putting up things on Ebay, and ‘learning’ how to do all this in one Fell swoop! Geeze!!!! I FINALLY figured out how to upload pics and those will be up later.
