October 4 – 10, 1999
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Primary topics of this QHL Digest:
- AQSG Conference Coordination — Members compare travel plans, exhibits, and social meetups ahead of the American Quilt Study Group’s annual seminar in East Lansing, Michigan.
- Eagle Quilt Dating Continues — More published citations, including Quilt magazine and Oklahoma Heritage Quilts, are shared to help source and date the ongoing eagle-quilt discussion. (see the article on dating quilts)
- G Street Fabrics and DC Quilt Resources — Members recommend a well-known DC-area fabric shop and nearby quilt exhibits for anyone visiting the capital.
- WCTU Quilt Scholarship — A member points to an academic paper analyzing Woman’s Christian Temperance Union quilts as a form of material-culture rhetoric. (see the article on temperance quilts)
- Flood-Damaged Textile Care — A member shares a Cooperative Extension resource on restoring textiles damaged by flooding.
- In Memoriam: Brenda Mulvihill — Members learn of the passing of quilt artist and QHL member Brenda Mulvihill, whose work was displayed at her funeral.
- Unfinished 1904 Star Block — A member seeks help identifying a cut-but-unassembled vintage quilt block pattern found among a late quilter’s belongings.
- Antique Embroidery Pattern Research — Members trace iron-on embroidery transfer designs and help identify an 1880s publication called The Art Amateur.
- Turn-of-the-Century Commemorative Fabric — A member wonders whether “turn of the century” commemorative fabric existed in the 1890s the way millennium-themed fabric is being produced now.
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 22:10:20 -0500 | From: lessmann@ (Ellen Lessmann)
I have to share my latest plunge with all of you. I have read the list faithfully since its inception, but rarely post, prefering to read and learn from all of you. I love old quilts, and have a couple of old family quilts, but have never purchased any—until—
My daughter and I were checking out some estate sales (I do have a weakness for old Singer sewing machines) when I spotted a couch piled with quilts. I always look, but actually have never been tempted before, and as I was looking I saw what I felt was an 1880 double pink pieced star design. It “spoke” to me (daughter told me later she knew it must be special, because my hands started to shake) anyway, I found myself carrying the quilt to the cash box, and it came home with me. I was really pretty suprised at myself, and it was a leap of faith for me to think I had learned enough about quilts to think I saw something and trust my judgement to buy it. I am very lucky, because I live in Omaha, and was able to take it by the Kirk Collection, and Bill and Nancy were kind enough to put my mind at rest–I really did have a “Double Pink”, probably from about the 1880’s.
Just had to share my good fortune with those who appreciate it, and thank all of you for the education in quilts you have helped to provide for me. Dont think I will ever be a big-time collector, but it sure was fun to find this treasure!!
Ellen in Omaha
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 18:28:25 -1000 | From: “Laurie Woodard” <lwoodard@>
I’ll be there too, hoping to escape the heat for a few days. I may be the only one (how many are coming from the south?) there in lightweight cotton longjohns but I’ll love it for the short term. It’s still in the mid- to high-80s here although the trade winds keep us pretty cool. No A/C in most houses, just those cooling breezes and all that nice airborne dust and grit! If anyone can help to identify feed sack fabrics, a kit quilt or redwork pattern sources, I’d like to talk with you. I’ll be arriving on the 13th so I can catch up on sleep a little before Friday. — Laurie Woodard Researcher Hawaiian Quilt Research Project http://openstudio.hawaii.edu/hqrp/default.html
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 12:45:14 +0200 | From: Ady Hirsch <adamroni@>
Hi, I may be mistaken, and this may not be the origin of the newly made Eagles quilt, but Quilt magazine (Fall 1997) had an article titled “On the Wings of Eagles” – Patriotic Quilts Past and Present (pp. 14-15) with two eagle quilts. One appears to be antique, or at least old. with four eagles, a big star in the middle and four red applique stars in the corners. The other is a scaled down modern miniature version. The magazine also supplied patterns for both quilts. Bothe are quite beautiful. Ady
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 07:45:31 -0400 | From: Alan Kelchner <quiltfix@>
The ladies on the ArtQuilt list rave about this place called G Street Fabrics. Never been myself.
Alan
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 07:52:11 EDT | From: QuiltFixer@
For those of you interested in Redwork, my new web is up at www.redworklady.com/ I know many of you are interested in patterns and my pattern page is under construction and something will be going up there by December. Let me know privately at redworkldy@ if you wish to be added to my redwork pattern mail list. I am interested in exchanging links and want to hear privately from people who are interested in Redwork, both vintage and revival. I will leaving on a trip to the East on Saturday and will get to see some of you while I am there. I am really looking forward to that! I will be checking on QHL and my e-mail on my lap top every couple of days. Congratulations to Phyllis Twigg on her new web page! Toni Baumgard The Redwork Lady QuiltFixer@ redworkldy@ www.redworklady.com
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 08:47:51 -0400 | From: Beth Donaldson <quilts@>
I’ll be at AQSG, too, since I’m the local planning chair. If you’re not signed up for Quilt Tour #2, make sure to allow time on Friday or Saturday afternoon to see the quilt exhibit in the Union Building and the Native American exhibit in the Museum. Let’s hope for good weather and lots of fall color. I’ll be spending this weekend stuffing tote bags and rooting for Michigan State to beat the University of Michigan in football. Both teams are 5-0 and it means bragging rights for an entire year. If you haven’t chosen your team to root for remember Michigan State is the one with over 500 quilts, 1000 quilt books, home of the Michigan Quilt Project and where President of AQSG, Marsha MacDowell is employed!
Beth Donaldson Michigan State University Museum Quilt Collections Assitant
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 08:56:01 -0500 (Central Daylight Time) | From: Mary Persyn <Mary.Persyn@>
I’ll be there also with my Rainbow Blocks quilt (for those of you who were at Merikay’s lecture this summer). Pat Lyons will be there also.
Mary in sunny, but cold, Valparaiso, IN
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 09:02:58 -0500 | From: Laura Hobby Syler <texas_quilt.co@>
Ellen, Never say never………what do you think got most of us started??? The shaking hands thing is a dead give-a-way that you’ve been hooked!!! Enjoy and welcome to the group….. My name is Laura and I collect quilts….<G> Dont think I will ever be a big-time collector, but it sure was fun to >find this treasure!! > >Ellen in Omaha > > > >
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 11:06:57 -0300 | From: Barbara Robson <robsonbh@>
A friend forwarded me this article from the Montreal Gazette about the Civil War quilt in the McCord Museum that Diane Shink is researching. Thought some of you might be interested in the article and the quilt.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/pages/991004/2947630.html
Barbara Robson Fox Point, Nova Scotia
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 10:35:06 EDT | From: Palampore@
I have gotten several requests regarding the info. I compiled about dealing with flood damaged textiles. I have just found the site where it is being offered by the NC Cooperative Extension. Go to www.ces.ncsu.edu
Once you are at the site click on “Ask the Specialist”. There will be a catagory there for “Apparel & Textiles” and under that heading with be: “Salvaging Heirlooms”. Click on it and it will bring up the info I put together. This site also lists many other flood related topics that are extremely helpful. Click on the flood picture to get other info. I got a note from a woman on QHL from MD asking for this info this weekend and I apologize that I did not get back with her. I can’t find the message.
Sorry!!! Hope you see this and it helps you. I have only heard from a few people. I talked with a man this weekend who threw away a stack of quilts because they didn’t have a clue what to do. It broke my heart. I am hitting the newspapers again today. If they won’t do a story I guess I will send in a letter to the editor giving this site to them. It is still very overwhelming to hear the stories of the clean up. I have typed up a list of the names of the signature quilt from Odin and many other towns. If anyone wants it drop me a note. Today I am getting the borders on a quilt top made by my 88 yr.old mother-in-law. She has macular degeneration and glaucoma, but she wants to quilt one more quilt. I hope to have this in a frame for her tomorrow so she can give it a shot. I am gently trying to convince her that tying it might work best, but she is very determined to quilt it. I hope she can!!! Take care, Lynn in New Bern, NC
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 09:50:55 -0500 | From: “barbara J. woodford” <woodford@>
I’ll be in East Lansing with a carful of 19th century quilts. If I make it past South Chicago and Gary, that is.
Barbara Woodford Historic American Quilts
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 11:04:01 -0400 | From: Barb Garrett <bgarrett@>
Good Morning All –
Since I’m not going to AQSG I must do my old quilting looking elsewhere <grin> so found this on ebay just now — http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=176005798
I have never seen an embroidered and appliqued Raggedy Ann quilt and my questions are — 1. Were they printed panels that were available like redwork and Rainbow blocks 2. Do they look home designed 3. What is the time frame for the ones shown 4. Has anyone else seen blocks of this type in a quilt I, and I’m sure others on the list, will be grateful for any information you are able to share — look what we learned about 4 – eagle quilts. Thanks for your help.
Barb in southeastern PA (a pretty good place to live quiltwise) <grin> <bgarrett@>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 99 12:31:42 EDT | From: “Bob Mills” <decision@>
Haven’t checked out Bonnie Hunter’s Eagle quilt, but I did just have Bonnie machine quilt a kaleidoscope quilt for me. It was waiting for me when I returned from the Restoration Conference. I had never had anyone professionally machine quilt something for me before and she did an amazing job, quilting beautiful medallions with stippling in the non-kaleidoscope neutral areas and swirls in the rest. Special effects in the two borders AND she put up with my e-mails and phone calls. I finally just asked her to use her judgement and it was a wise move. For those of you who know me, I am really a lover of hand quilting and only do machine quilting on things that I know will be treated rough. Or in this case, one that I didn’t have time to hand quilt but deserved much better than my machine quilting.
The usual no relationship, etc. but pleased with her work. Her website is fun too and listed below.
Jan Drechsler (not Bob)
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/bobmills/jan.html
Bonnie Hunter
Quiltville Custom Quilting http://www.quiltville.com
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 13:51:58 -0500 | From: Mary Waller <mswaller@>
There’s an academic paper, “Many a Drunkard Slept Under a Drunkard’s Path Quilt: The Use of Material Culture as Non-Verbal Rhetoric by the Woman’s Christian Temperance Society” by Sharon E. Strand of Black Hills State University, Spearfish, South Dakota at http://www.bhsu.edu:80/academics/artssciences/wcts_bhsu/index.html
I skimmed the article and didn’t spot any reference to blue fabrics being symbolic of any one thing. Dr. Strand writes that the WCTU members wore white ribbons as their symbol and were known as the “Whiyte Ribboners”. Several pictures of various WCTU quilts are included.
I seem to remember hearing blue symbolized water as a pure drink for the WCTU; does this have any validity or is it one of our quilt myths?
Dr. Strand also writes that Frances Willard had a dress designed for the WCTU, with the pattern selling for 50 cents, and the importance of dressing properly to present the correct image to their audiences. She also describes how the Civil War contributed to a more wide-spread use of alcohol by blurring class lines and changing society; also that military units provided a ration of alcohol to their members.
Mary Waller, Vermillion, South Dakota, USA
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:13:05 EDT | From: CWaiss4459@
Are any of the list members planning on attending the Berkshire Quilt Festival?
This quilt show is taking place October 9th and 10th, 1999 10:00am-5pm at the Berkshire Community College, 1350 West Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201.
For more information contact– hkimpel@ I am planning on attending on Saturday at approximately noon. Donation of 4.00 to attend and all proceeds benefit a scholarship fund at BCC
If anyone is planning on attending maybe we could get together for lunch, any DJ’s or OHL’ers or Crazy Quilters. This will be my second quilt function I am attending since we moved here to eastern NY, the first being the quilt display at the Columbia County Fair.
Please contact me if you are planning on attending this show and would like to meet up. cwaiss4459@ Chris
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 21:46:47 -0700 | From: Barbara <qwhiltr@>
All I know is that I have some of these embroidery designs in my files. I bought photocopies from a woman who sells out of print doll and embroidery patterns, etc. They are not dated, but I do have some of the early RA&A books with illustrations from the same era….probably ’30s to ’50s? I think they were originally iron-on transfers. Barbara Black in Ventura —————— Barb wrote:
> I have never seen an embroidered and appliqued Raggedy Ann quilt and my > questions are — > 1. Were they printed panels that were available like redwork and Rainbow > blocks > 2. Do they look home designed > 3. What is the time frame for the ones shown > 4. Has anyone else seen blocks of this type in a quilt
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 06:18:18 -0400 | From: Debby Kratovil <kratovil@>
Finally got my Carrie Hall Blocks book yesterday from AQS. This is the redo of the book, done by Betinna Havig. Beautiful. But I was hoping for a bit more in the history department. Should I have expected more? Was there more? Just curious if others have gotten theirs yet and if they think that the price tag of $35 was a bit high (yes I know, as an AQS member I only paid $28). What I do love about the book is that the color pictures of the blocks are of the ORIGINAL blocks in the Hall/Kretschner collection in Kansas. They are so perfect looking!
Debby Kratovil — Quilter By Design kratovil@ http://www.his.com/~queenb Paper Piecing Patterns & More! Mac Pfaffie 7570
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 06:35:56 -0500 | From: “M. Denney” <melissadenney@>
Here is of DC quilt shops some with URL’s that was posted on another group list that I am on. I hope this is helpful. G Street Fabrics. They also have an online store at:
www.gstreetfabrics.com
The Quilt Patch. They also have an online store at www.quiltpatchva.com
Quilter’ Confectionary Quilter’s Heaven M. Melissa Denney Auburn, Alabama, USA
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 10:27:40 -0400 (EDT) | From: quiltsnbears@ (Textile Historian)
Sadly (very,very sadly) I will miss this one. The happy side of this is that I’ll be in Massachusetts for two weeks. I am really tired of the Florida weather. I hope everyone has a really great time! Roberta
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 10:43:29 -0400 (EDT) | From: quiltsnbears@ (Textile Historian)
These were iron-on transfers from the early 1930’s. Some of us learned to embroider using these. Roberta
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:20:12 -0500 (EST) | From: “Joanna E. Evans” <jevans@
I’ll be there, and I’m looking forward to seeing those who can make it to the American Quilt Study Group’s annual conference… Joanna Evans Bloomington, IN
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 14:34:54 -0700 | From: Diane Lockwood <dcl924@
….DH and I rescued an old wool crazy (sort of) quilt from a junk store that we spent time authenticating while we were still in Georgia. Turns out it was made from a man’s wardrobe, some of which was Union AND Confederate uniform pieces.
I donated the quilt to the Atlanta History Center last August. The curators, Besty Wayburn and Gordon Jones were pleased at how much geneological research DH and I had done. We turned all the info over to the Center. I was one person away from the orginal maker…sigh… She hailed from East Tennessee which had strong Union sympathies, thus the Union uniform pieces. I’m hoping that the museum staff will pursue that final step in identifying the maker. The curators felt that the quilt would not be displayed but used as a teaching tool. As long as it is in a safe environment and well cared for I’ll be happy. I brought it out to California for a couple of years but it begged to be returned to the South. I knew I’d be dontating it but just couldn’t give the “old dear” up until last August.
I’ve posted the story to interested parties through the last 4 years and recently sent it to Sehoy Welshof who publishes Web Threads, http://www.welshofer.com/WebThreads/
The story will run 2 or 3 issues and may be on the September issue up now. If it isn’t there now, check the next issue, November.
I can’t access Web Threads til DH puts Adobe on my computer!!
Diane Pollock Pines, Calif
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:06:56 EDT | From: EGinebaugh@
Hi all, I just found out today that my antique quilt will be hanging in the exhibit! I am so excited! So I will be at the conference, too! If we want to get together at all, let me know, and maybe we can have lunch or dinner somewhere. Beth, can you recommend any good places in Lansing? 🙂
Liz in Michigan
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 19:08:11 -0400 | From: Alan Kelchner <quiltfix@>
Yay !!!
Go Ellen, you gotta trust yourself at some point and now is just as good as later. And don’t worry about the hands shaking – I’ve been buying quilts for years and I still do it. My friends also use my hands’ stability as a guide to how badly I want the quilt …
Alan
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 20:46:12 -0400 | From: denise nordberg <quiltdiva@>
I HAVE been to G Street Fabrics and it’s wonderful – well worth a stop if you’re in the area. They have all types of fabric and notions and machines etc. etc….. Denise in cold NE Pennsylvania
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 21:39:58 -0400 | From: “Phyllis Twigg” <ptwigg@>
Ricki, Toni’s on tour right now. She’ll be at the Howard County Center for the Arts in Ellicott City, MD on October 20th at the meeting of the Baltimore Applique Society at 7 p.m. Come and join us to hear her give her redwork presentation. It’ll be great. Phyllis Twigg (now interim President of the BAS until December)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 22:02:16 -0400 | From: “Phyllis Twigg” <ptwigg@>
Hi! I would like to research some outline embroidery pattern/ designs in an 1880’s publication called The Art Amateur. Is anyone familiar with this title? Is it a book or a magazine? Any leads would be appreciated. Thanks, Phyllis
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 21:12:28 -0500 | From: Karen Bush <Birdsong@
Was scanning my new Quilt Sampler today and lo and behold, there’s a TWO great articles by Debby Kratovil!!! Good job Debby!!! 🙂 kb — Ebay Seller, User name: karenbush- “About Me” page-http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/karenbush/ http://www.idahoquilt.com “Quilt As Desired” the book of Basics and Beyond of Hand Quilting…,
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 09:44:35 -0700 | From: pastcrafts@
For anyone coming to the DC area, G Street Fabrics has 3 shops, each of them stronger in one area than another. The flagship store is in Rockville, Md. It is the location for true couture and bridal and buttons. The quilting cottons are good, but the best selection they are now sending to the Chantilly ,Va. store. The Falls Church store (in Seven Corners) is still evolving, it openned 6 months ago or so. But it looks like they will be concentrating on decorator fabrics. In Alexandria, just a block from the King Street Metro, is Quilt and Stuff. As it is a small shop, Madeline has chosen to be more contemporary than antique in her fabric purchases. Not that she doesn’t have the repros. Her selection of Carribean influenced/produced fabrics as well as African inspired designs will make any contemporary quilter glad. Newbie, Past Crafts Studios, Alexandria, VA.
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:58:59 EDT | From: Hazelmacc@
One item on going to G Street Fabrics. The Rockville store is near a Metro (our underground) line. One would need a car to get to the others.
For quilt artists there are two exhibits: Rockville Civic Center Park, Oct.3-Nov 2, Glenview Mansion Art Gallery with Sue Pierce and B.J. Adams work plus mixed media. phone 30l-309-3354 for directions. Art Quilts & Wood 99, New Image Art Quilters and a woodworking guild, Oct 7 -3l, Rock Creek Gallery, 240l Tilden St.,NW, D.C. 202/244-2482.
Small shows but if time permits tis fun to see. Also for quilt collectors, don’t miss Rocky Road to Kansas shop, Union Street in Alexandria.
Hazel Carter in No. VA.
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 16:39:40 EDT | From: Qltldy10@
I was in DC last week, and memory may not serve me well:
The DAR was getting ready for a new exhibit, I’m thinking it opened on the
7th; Art Quilts (not old quilts, as I read the notice). Of course, you can always do the tour of their rooms, and see a few old quilts. I did lean in to the downstairs display area, and might have seen a wholecloth white being set up- so it’s worth checking out (of course, if you are in to art quilts, it’ll be a must). The Smithsonian (American History) had the same quilts out that have been out since 1997- sigh. OTOH, they are working on The Flag, and have set up so that you can see the work being done- fascinating.
Science and Industry has a small display of African cloth in America, with a few (small) quilts. Great photos exhibit of African folks/tribes, at the back of the cloth exhibit. Mostly Ghana and Kenya, as I recall. For quilt ideas, keep your eyes on the tile floors in this building. Even DH made quilt-like comments.
2 or 3 modern/art quilts in the Portrait Gallery.
Didn’t go to the textile museum this trip. I find a dearth of fabric places in DC in the time frames I usually have, but the Smithsonian shops, combined, have just about any book you could want- tons of remaindered books, too. The DAR has a few copies of a book they did for the Japanese market, I also got the Lowell book there. If you are in to sewing machines, there are some in the old papent office, upstairs of the Portrait gallery- one special one there is the one where the body of the machine is a- uh oh, senior moment- fish/dolphin/swan. there are probably 10 great machines in the case- also, a diplay of Wheeler & Wilson stuff in one of the Smiths– again, can’t remember details.
Enjoy Washington, it really is a super cool place. I don’t rec doing the Wall and the Halocaust in the same day (they are pretty close to each other), that’s emotionally exhausting.
Beth in Maine
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 10:59:15 -0500 (Central Daylight Time) | From: Mary Persyn <Mary.Persyn@>
Was driving down the highway this morning looking at my McDonald’s Millennium paper cup and the thought suddenly struck me, did the manufacturers produce “turn of the century” fabric in the late 1890s the way we are seeing millennium fabric now? I’ve seen the U.S. centennial fabrics from 1876, but don’t remember ever having seen “turn of the century” fabrics. Have any of you seen some? Mary in rainy Valparaiso
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 22:10:32 EDT | From: Cml791@
A 4-eagle quilt in the ‘Oklahoma Heritage Quilts’ page 36 is inscribed with
the date 1860. It states that it is inscribed: “Presented to Benjamin
Franklin Chenoweth by his Mother, 1860″. According to the story the top was
made by Mary McElwain Chenoweth in Webster County, Missouri and quilted by
her ancestors in 1900 in Oklahoma. It is unclear whether the inscription was
on the top or was quilted in.
Carolyn in Texas
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 07:09:11 EDT | From: Baglady111@
incase no one filled you in..TONI is on a lecture tour and geneology trip.
She has a lap top and will more than likely check in..I will see her on the
29th if you need to get a mesg to her…Jane of THE FEEDSACK CLUB..
http:members.aol.com/baglady111/
check out my unique sale beginning Sun..
10/10/10/10
only twice this year will it be the 10th month, the 10th day, 10 am or 10pm
and 10 minutes AFTER 10..
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 10:47:39 -0700 | From: “Melissa Devin” <mldevin@>
Bonnie said that she pulled the pattern from Quilt magazine (same issue as
Ady describes below), but the center Mariner’s Compass came from Judy
Matheison’s mariners compass book…. Sorry not to be timely with a responce
on where she found the pattern.
Melissa
>Hi,
>I may be mistaken, and this may not be the origin of the newly made Eagles
>quilt, but Quilt magazine (Fall 1997) had an article titled “On the Wings
>of Eagles” – Patriotic Quilts Past and Present (pp. 14-15) with two eagle
>quilts. One appears to be antique, or at least old. with four eagles, a big
>star in the middle and four red applique stars in the corners. The other is
>a scaled down modern miniature version. The magazine also supplied patterns
>for both quilts. Bothe are quite beautiful.
>Ady
>
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 20:31:28 -0700 (PDT) | From: Elaine Baglo <elainb@>
For those of you who were keeping in touch with Brenda Mulvihill, this is
to let you know that she passed away last Tuesday afternoon. I just arrived
home from the funeral services in Montreal a couple of days ago. Her quilts
were displayed at the funeral home and her work was amazing. Perhaps one
day, when the healing has been done, a book about her and her quilts will
be written. She had so much to offer everyone and the world has lost yet
another great quilter.
Her DH would like her name removed from the QHL list but I don’t know how
that can be done from my computer. So, if the list administrator is reading
this, could you please remove the following address from the list:
mulvihill@
TIA
Elaine
elainb@
Victoria, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 05:57:10 -0400 | From: Debby Kratovil <kratovil@>
> The DAR was getting ready for a new exhibit, I’m thinking it opened on the
> 7th; Art Quilts (not old quilts, as I read the notice). Of course, you
can
> always do the tour of their rooms, and see a few old quilts.
I attended the opening of this exhibit, (curated by Nancy Tuckhorn) on Wed
evening. Old and new quilts hanging side by side – an exciting combination.
Bravo to Nancy for curating this exhibit!
Thanks for the alert on the DAR show. Since I live in the DC area I will
make it a point to get there. I interviewed Nancy Tuckhorn a few years back
for an article for the NQA magazine and I must say, there is no one I’ve
met in the quilting world who is as excited and informed about textiles as
Nancy! She is the Textile Curator at the Museum and she lives and breathes
textiles. So I know that this exhibit is a winner, and very professionally
done at that.
Debby Kratovil — Quilter By Design
kratovil@
http://www.his.com/~queenb
Paper Piecing Patterns & More!
Mac Pfaffie 7570
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 08:58:50 -0400 | From: “jawhite@” <jawhite@>
Gail, on page 81 of the newest Keepsake catalogue, there are patchwork
sampler cards. They look to me like they have the cutout window and you
are supposed to provide the pp quilt block to fill the window.
Judy White – Ct
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 22:38:45 -0500 | From: Jean Binns Smith <shejean@>
An older quilter in our area died. Among her quilting things a friend
found a “Star of 1904 “pattern and pieces cut out, but no picture of the
finished block. In playing with them , I thought the pieces looked
like 54-40 or fight with the center as one block and the cornor blocks
cut on the diagional to form 2 triangles insted of the 4 suares.
Searched all four of Judy Rumels 1000 quilt patterns books, no luck. Is
anyone familiar with this pattern?
Thanks,
Jean b Smith
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 15:31:53 -0700 | From: “pepper cory” <pepcory@>
Hi Jean-
My guild, the Crystal Coast Quilters, just completed their year 200 raffle
quilt top. It happens to have (in additon to a huge Mariner’s Compass,
sailboats both pieced and appliqued, lighthouses, and a border of appliqued
waves with fish jumping around-) lots of 1904 Stars! The reference is
Brackman’s Encyclopedia of Pieced Patterns, #2795, p.380 (in my old
tattered version). It’s the first block on the facing page. We foundation
pieced the stars and they came out beautifully. As soon as the guild gets
its own web site with a picture of our year 2000 quilt, I’ll alert QHL.
Pepper Cory
