February 25 – 29, 2004 (Part 2)
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Primary topics of this QHL Digest:
- Double Wedding Ring Deep Dive — Extended discussion of DWR quilt kits, stamped fabric squares, and eccentric variations from a large private collection.
- Prose-for-Months Horoscope Fun — A lighthearted chain letter about astrological “prose for the month” birth-month personality traits.
- Antique Show & Sourcing Leads — A new Los Angeles antique show announcement alongside ongoing quilt-collection sourcing questions.
- New Voices on the UGRR Debate — Newer and long-lurking subscribers add fresh perspective to the ongoing Hidden in Plain View conversation.
From: Xenia Cord <xenia@>
Virginia Snow Studios (Collingbourne Mills/Dexter Threads, Elgin, Illinois) sold squares of white fabric stamped for the placement of Double Wedding Ring block components. Apparently one pieced the arcs, then appliquéd them to the stamped block.
These were marketed as blocks, with information in fine print about what else was required to make them useful; imagine the disappointment of the buyer when she discovered she would have to collect and piece the colored bits of fabric herself! I had a collection of these and other blocks stamped for different designs, all from Virginia Snow Studios (before i got flooded last summer).
Xenia
From: “barbara sullivan ;o\)”
your collection sound beautiful. do you have photos? i would love to see them! i love those quilts. they are my favorite but i am not skilled enough to make one. i am currently working on cross stitching a dwr. it is so cute. a friend mailed me the kit because i was looking for quilt designs in cross stitch. but im sorry to hear you had some stolen. someone just broke into your home and took them? or they broke in for something and happened to take those as well? that is so sad.
barbara
Anne Copeland <anneappraiser1@> wrote: Hi Jean, I have a very large collection of Double Wedding Rings, and through studying them carefully (I bought all eccentrics, so they offer lots of variations). Yes, there are squared versions, and whether there was an actual pattern or not, i am not certain, for often it seems to have more to do with the number and size of the pieces in the rings than an actual intentional thing. Also, solid rings are never squared, another reason I tend to believe that.
I found a number of interesting things about DWRs when I started collecting. I believe the DWR goes back before the 20s, to the early teens or perhaps even earlier, and that the orginal DWRs had solid rings. I have one that is definitely turkey red and two step green, and it is quilted in a style that seems more prevalent to me at the turn of the century than later on. Also, I have others that were clearly from that period in the early teens. Very turn of the century style and colors and the not so great quilting and thick battings. I had more that were stolen from my home in 1998.
I have also found DWRs appliqued on top of a wholecloth backing, and like I said, very eccentric DWRs in terms of design layout and coloring. I have a pretty decent collection that goes all the way from the turn of the century to the present. I even have a kit DWR that I am certain was made by the Mickey Company ca. 1930. Whole DWR sections in two print colors – that peachy pink and a soft green (not Nile green).
It’s funny because my taste never ran along the lines of DWRs but a friend got me started collecting them and now I love the graphic ones I have. I have one that is made like a dresden plate with colored (printed) melons, and it is absolutely to die for. It is just a top, but probably one of my best ones. Peace and blessings, Annie
From: “Laura Fisher” <laurafishernetlink1.net>
Hi I – I need an up to date list of locations throughout the U.S. where someone can see many quilts, i.e. museums, historic associations, etc. I know several museums recently acquired collections of quilts and I have info on those; I want to make sure I include significant places to see quilts.
Also, there used to be a directory of quilt shops across the country; does that still exist and how can I get an current copy?
Lastly, quilter’s magazines — I have info on the principal ones, just want to make sure I don’t miss any.
Is this info already compiled somewhere on the net?
Thanks for your help. Please email me privately if you like.
Laura Fisher ——=
From: “Laura Fisher” <laurafishernetlink1.net>
Someone just informed me there are quilts by Laura Fisher in the Sundance Catalog.
These have nothing to do with me !! I am not manufacturing quilts.
Someone is either using my name without authorization because of my relationship to quilts, or else there is yet another Laura Fisher in the U.S. related to textiles (I know only of me selling antique quilts, and Laura Fisher the textile artist/designer in Katonah NY).
So, caveat emptor. ——=_Nex
From: <mreich@>
With March just around the corner, this little descriptive might be of interest. Its author forgot girls born in the month of March! For those of us born in the remaining eleven months, did the descriptive for your month seal your fate? And, yes, inconsistant was spelled with an “a.” sue reich The Kellogg Enterprise Kellogg, Iowa November 9, 1888
Depends When the Girl Is Born. If a girl is born in January she will be a prudent housewife, given to melancholy, but good temper. If in February, a humane and affectionate wife, and tender mother. If in April, inconsistant, not very intelligent, but likely to be good looking. If in May, handsome, amiable, and likely to be happy. If in June, impetuous, will marry early and will be frivolous. If in July, passably handsome, but with a sulky temper. If in August, amiable mad practical, and likely to marry rich. If in September, discreet, affable, and much liked. If in October, coquettish, and likely to be unhappy. If in November, liberal, kind and of a mild disposition. If in December, well proportioned, fond of novelty, and extravagant. St Louis Republic.
From: “Laura Fisher” <laurafishernetlink1.net>
Hi – anyone visiting NYC must stop in to see the exhibit Talking Quilts at the American Folk Art Museum, 45 West 53rd Street. It is intriguing.
There is no catalog for the exhibit, but…….there will be a book on the subject. My latest book project is TEXT ON TEXTILES: Words as Design in Antique Quilts. It includes most of the 18 quilts that are coincidentally in the exhibit, plus many many more — some well known, some never before seen.
I’ve been compiling information and examples for the past year or more, and I am at the stage now where I want to reach out to the quilt community to make sure I have images of any great ones that may not be in museums or with private sources I have contacted.
If you have or know of a quilt with considerable words or writing that you think should be included, I would appreciate it if you would email or mail photos.
My address is 1050 Second Avenue, Gallery # 84, NY NY 10022.
Thanks for your input.
Laura Fisher
From: Joan Kiplinger <jkip@>
The Handcrafts Div. of Farmers Wife featured in a 1920s catalog a DWR quilt and pillow kit. Quilt had scalloped borders; squares of either two solids or a solid and white with segments of 6 small figured prints and center piece and melon of white or unbleached. Block forms its own scalloped border with points of color between. Quilt measures 74×88 when finished and pillow with colored back and boxing measures 19″ across. A quilting design is shown between which I’ll post to eboard later. . Prices were : Material ready cut for complete top $3.98 Material, ready cut for ocmplete pillow .75 Perforated quilting pattern including both for center and segments .50 Cutting pattern for DWR .15 Special — free Rose Stamping Powder when quilt and perforated stamping patter are ordered together for the special price of 4.25 Pure white Cloth of Gold backing, 36″ wide .25/yd
Xenia Cord wrote:
>Virginia Snow Studios (Collingbourne Mills/Dexter Threads, Elgin, >Illinois) sold squares of white fabric stamped for the placement of >Double Wedding Ring block components. Apparently one pieced the arcs, >then appliquéd them to the stamped block. > > > >
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 | From: Joan Kiplinger <jkip@>
Farmers Wife DWR kit is now on eboard. http://vintagepictures.eboard.com or http://www.eboard.com/vintagepictures [enter vintagepictures in box] Select quilt tab.
From: “Leah Zeiber” <leah.zieber@>
What a laugh, I checked the months for both me and my three daughters and boy oh boy they are pretty accurate! Particularly the “sulky temper” for me 🙂
Sulky Tempered Leah
From: Gail Ingram <gingram@>
This is the forecase for the month of March, omitted in Sue’s earlier report from the midwestern paper:
“Girls who are born in March will be gifted intellecutally, socially, and artistically. Their sense of humor will brighten their lives. Their passion will enrich the world. They will be good ceo’s, mothers, wives, friends, mistresses of pets both ill- and good-dispositioned. They will make good teachers, gardeners, needlewomen, and artists, and they will suffer fools gladly because they will cherish the stories to be found thereby. They will not need to marry rich, for they will bring their richness with them. Their price will be greater than rubies. They will make good cowgirls and they will love quilts and quilters.”
gi
From: Donald Beld <donbeld@>
Hi, well my Log Cabin Quilt that I posted on vintagepictures.eboard.com generated no comments from you guys–don’t know if you didn’t like it or didn’t notice my note the day I sent it; BUT, today I posted an 1868 (Is that early or what) Courthouse Steps quilt that is signed and dated on the eboard sight that you really MUSTN’T MISS!! It is a beauty–with a poison green center and brown, yellow, and white strips in what I think is Penns. Dutch fabric. It has been in the maker’s family since it was made.
I also posted a sewing sampler made by the quilt maker’s mother in 1831 that shows the back of the quilt behind it when I took the photo. Both items are going to be in the special “Log Cabin Through the Ages” exhibit I am putting together for my guild’s May 9th show at the Lincoln Shrine in Redlands.
I also just confirmed an 1900 silk tie Log Cabin quilt for the show as well.
Hope you enjoy seeing the Courthouse Steps. E-mail me privately what you think. Thanks, Don Beld
From: “Cinda Cawley” <lrcawley@>
Thanks Gail. March fits me with my St. Patrick’s Day birthday to a T (G), except for the bits about pets and gardening. Cinda on the Eastern Shore
From: “Lucille greene” <vernongreene@>
Those quilts are breath taking. Very beautiful. Wished I could see them with eye contact. Again they are beautiful Lucille in Ky
From: Gail Ingram <gingram@>
> From: “Cinda Cawley” <lrcawley@> > Subject: [qhl] Re: Prose for months > > Thanks Gail. March fits me with my St. Patrick’s Day birthday to a T (G), > except for the bits about pets and gardening. > Cinda on the Eastern Shore >
Well, Cinda, you’re not dead yet. Maybe the pets and gardening will come. Let’s see, that makes 4.
gi
From: <quiltcomplex@>
HI, I just realized that some of you in Southern California might be interested in a new antique show which will debut in Los Angeles tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday. This promoter does a great show in Northern California twice a year and is starting this one in Hollywood this year. There are always lots of antique quilts for sale along with other high qulaity American antiques and folk art. I know at least two dealers in the show who specialize in quilts and will have dozens for sale. You can check for details at www.californiacountryshow.com Hope to see some of you there! Julie Silber
From: “Hope” <hseidertacnet.missouri.org>
I am a lurker who subscribed to quilt history list for a number of years, unsubscribed, and recently re-subscribed.
I read your remarks, Pat, with interest. I am an elementary teacher, a quilter, and an amateur genealogist and historian who wrote the sesquicentennial history of our little town several years ago. I have a masters’ degree, am a reading specialist, and have a number of hours above the masters, with annual professional development. I have two daughters who were raised in our school system with superb thinking skills — one is a registered dietetian working on her masters in counseling, and the other is a speech pathologist also working on her masters degree in that field.
I’m not too happy with your depiction of teachers and teacher education. I don’t know where you live or which teachers you are talking about, but teachers today do a darn good job with what we are handed. I don’t know of any who “lack critical thinking skills.” We are working very hard to get our students to analyze and question literature, history, and science. Beginning with the very youngest!
The teachers I know make every effort to be accurate because we know that what we teach is so important to the lives of our children. There may be teachers who allow themselves to be carelessly misled, but I don’t know any of them. If they were misled, they would correct it immediately if the truth were shared with them. I’m often invited to share my quilt- and history-related experiences with other classes, and they often invite local experts to spin wool, quilt, etc.
You talk about having to try to correct what the teachers have so mistakenly imparted. Let me tell you, Hollywood has a much more insidious and far-reaching stranglehold on the teaching of accurate history than a teacher’s mistelling of a historical event.
Try correcting, for example, every year, the mistaken idea that Pocahontas and John Smith were close to the same age and in love with each other. We work hard to counteract that, as well as they idea that Columbus’ contemporaries thought the world was flat, etc., etc. I could go on and on but I won’t. I hope I’ve done a little educating of my own.
Hope in SW Missouri
Pat said:
“Perhaps part of the problem in education today is the lack of good teaching training and/or ongoing education. “Critical thinking skills” cannot be imparted to children, if teachers themselves do not have them. Sorting out fact from fiction may seem simple to those of us who know the difference. We cannot assume that children can separate fanciful tales from what is real.
“Children are children and we don’t worry very much if they believe in myths. However, the teaching of history based of fictional tales is wrong, simply wrong. History is difficult enough to teach. Written history reflects the opinions of whomever is writing it, subject to his/her biases, (perhaps) limited information, and by necessity, limited presentation of facts. For example, if one fact is given, maybe ten are not…. It is always a judgement call in what to include and/or exclude in a piece of writing.”
From: “Judy Anne” <anne_j@>
Hope, As a recovering primary teacher (and I mean this literally, I got seriously ill and am lucky to be alive) I know the grueling stress of teaching kids today. Yet teachers are still eager to find new ways to bring kids exciting educational material instead of just teaching inside the box. I personally think it’s wonderful that teachers are integrating quilting into the curriculum. It has so many possibilities in terms of math, history and just plain creativity. If I weren’t aware of quilt history research I’m sure I would have been one of the first to jump on the bandwagon and do something with the UGRR idea as it is most appealing the way it mixes adventure & quilting with Black History.
Like you, I’m certain that teachers aren’t teaching the UGRR blocks myth as truth because they lack skills or are just too lazy. The problem is they have no idea that it is a myth, and how could they when even major government sites publish it as truth. As those of us here who are or have been teachers know there is no way each single teacher can thoroughly research something like this on her own. They are lucky to get any time for their own families and to sleep at night. That is why we need to get the word out there to everyone including teachers, newspapers and websites. Not an easy task but at least some UGRR articles by members of this list seem to be showing up pretty high on Google searches, so hopefully more and more teachers will find this information. Since my site is an introductory type site on quilt history a lot of teachers use it and have parents and kids use it for homework. The information from people on this list has been a great help to me in getting out accurate historical information. I think we are on the right track doing what we can to get the facts out there. We just have to keep working at it.
Judy Anne
America’s Quilting History http://womenfolk.com/historyofquilts/
From: “Judy Kelius (judysue)” <judysue@>
Hi Don . . . the quilt is beautiful. I am learning more every day about Pennsylvania quilts. Without the date, I would think it is late 19th century, not Civil War era. It seems that Pennsylvania quilters used similar or even the same fabrics for nearly a century, making dating a challenge. We have a dated 1852 quilt in the museum with fabrics that don’t look that much different from those used in the early 20th century . . . double blue, chrome yellow, turkey red, and green calico.
At 07:51 PM 2/27/2004, you wrote: >Hi, well my Log Cabin Quilt that I posted on vintagepictures.eboard.com >generated no comments from you guys–don’t know if you didn’t like it or >didn’t notice my note the day I sent it; BUT, today I posted an 1868 (Is >that early or what) Courthouse Steps quilt that is signed and dated on the >eboard sight that you really MUSTN’T MISS!! It is a beauty–with a poison >green center and brown, yellow, and white strips in what I think is Penns. >Dutch fabric. It has been in the maker’s family since it was made. > >I also posted a sewing sampler made by the quilt maker’s mother in 1831 >that shows the back of the quilt behind it when I took the photo. Both >items are going to be in the special “Log Cabin Through the Ages” exhibit >I am putting together for my guild’s May 9th show at the Lincoln Shrine in >Redlands. > >I also just confirmed an 1900 silk tie Log Cabin quilt for the show as well. > >Hope you enjoy seeing the Courthouse Steps. E-mail me privately what you >think. >Thanks, Don Beld > > >— >
From: Patricia L Cummings <quiltersmuse@>
Judy Anne wrote:
Since my site is an introductory type site on quilt history a lot of teachers use it and have parents and kids use it for homework. The information from people on this list has been a great help to me in getting out accurate historical information. I think we are on the right track doing what we can to get the facts out there. We just have to keep working at it.
Dear Judy Anne:
Your site is a great resource and I am happy that parents, teachers, and children are finding it. Having a website that is educational is a great deal of work. I can see that you are always updating information and adding new “chapters”, as topics present themselves or as the need arises. There is an innate need among teachers to want to share, long after they have left formal classroom settings. I can think of a number of people on this list, including myself, who are or were teachers in schools, and who are now centering on “quilt” education.
It is to your credit that you put so much time into developing these units of study for quilting. We all have important information to contribute and we all do so, to the best of our current knowledge and level of understanding. Learning is an ongoing task at any age. I am happy to be a small part of your site via the Bible Blocks article that you asked me to contribute. I thoroughly enjoyed making the quilt blocks that are shown in the article, especially the two examples of the “Rose of Sharon” appliqué blocks. In re-creating some of the more complex quilt blocks that were made in the nineteenth century, one gains a new appreciation for quilters of that era. Their work is exceptional, especially considering the fact that the majority probably did not have ready access to the fine needles and sharp tools that we have today.
Each of the quilt history sites online have a different approach but we all have vital messages to impart. First and foremost, the predominant theme that underlies any of our words has to be the written or unwritten appreciation that we have for all quilts, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Thank you to my fellow historians, particularly Judy Anne, Kris, and Kim, who work so hard to provide good resources for all who would approach the Internet as a learning tool. I would also like to thank the many people on this list who share so freely, and in so many ways. The one common goal we have in mind is to seek the truth about quilt history and to record those findings accurately.
Patricia L.Cummings owner, Quilter’s Muse Publications www.quiltersmuse.com
From: patkyser <patkyser@>
Re: Left out March girls Ah Gay, thanks for the inclusion of those of us who are blessed with March birthdays. I celebrate two: my “real one” on the 26th and my “special one” on St. Pat’s Day which my Irish Dad insisted SHOULD have been my birthday. He was in an automobile accident on that day and my sweet mother held off on delivering me until he was out of the woods and deemed going to survive. You are a delight! Pat Flynn Kyser in Alabama
> “Girls who are born in March will be gifted intellecutally, socially, > and > artistically. Their sense of humor will brighten their lives. Their > passion > will enrich the world. They will be good ceo’s, mothers, wives, > friends, > mistresses of pets both ill- and good-dispositioned. They will make > good > teachers, gardeners, needlewomen, and artists, and they will suffer > fools > gladly because they will cherish the stories to be found thereby. They > will > not need to marry rich, for they will bring their richness with them. > Their > price will be greater than rubies. They will make good cowgirls and > they > will love quilts and quilters.” >
From: Patricia L Cummings <quiltersmuse@>
Someone just wrote to me to say that she is very confused about names. She wonders if Mary Ellen Cummings is the same as Pat Cummings, and who Mary Ellen Campbell is.
For those who are wondering the same thing, Mary Ellen Cummings is an octogenarian and a quilt columnist for the Emmitsburg Dispatch whom Jan Dreschler had mentioned and provided us with a link to her online columns.
The name “Mary Ellen Campbell” was a misprint from someone who posted who was actually referring to Mary Ellen Cummings.
Ms. Cummings and I are not the same person, nor are even related. We simply share a last name in common. I hope that this clarifies the situation, (very big grin).
Patricia Lynne Grace Cummings, “Pat” to my friends, “Patti” to my relatives (old habits are hard to shake). I also answer to “Mom” and “Auntie”, but never to “Hey, You!”
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 | From: “Jean Carlton” <jeancarlton@>
All helpful information coming forth. I am not at home and miss all my reference books. I’d forgotten I’d found a copy of Khin’s pattern dictionary while traveling – – and I do see it on page 240 drawn ‘squarish’. I’m a bit surprised about the comment under it – first says Needlecraft Magazine, June 1931 – but then says ” A popular pattern after the Civil War”. I wonder…does she mean just not BEFORE the war – or that it starts to be seen fairly soon after the war? I wondered too about the size of the segment making up the arc. Seems the squarish rings have more rectangular segments; more like dominos. To make this design is there ‘end of segment’ template and separate segment templates? Is the shape of the 4 patch yet another ? I can see appliqueing it instead of insetting into those melon and sharp pointy things-though I have not seen this in person in the many such quilts I’ve seen….Don’t assume by that comment that I’m thinking of doing either. Amazing to me that so many DWR (and GFG’s) were made…pretty challenging compared to today’s quick rotary techniques! Jean
From: “Charlotte Bull” <charloumo-net.com>
Hi,,,I just got home from the new Quilt Study Group – M.O.K.A. – I live closer than many, which is a blessing! But, like others, I’d drive 6 hours and stay at a motel if I had to!
It was excellent. 38 ladies. Some fascinating quilts & stories. Lots of enthusiasm for forming regular meetings. Nancy Hornback gave very good talk and shared some quilts and we played a game of examining 4 quilts as though we were appraisers or historians. Very good training. So I want to thank Charlotte Enfield and Edie Idleman and several others involved with AQSG for their work. A lady volunteered to write it up and another took pictures. I’ll let them do their thing. But I wanted to say thanks to the 6 list members who encouraged me to attend! I enjoyed the “like-minded” new friends! (Hi Louise!) And the restaurant food was good. But 4 hours was way too short! cb
From: “Jan Drechsler” <quiltdoc@>
Teri Klassen sent me a note saying ‘there is a brief article in the Philadelphia Inquirer reporting doubts about the UGRR quilt code’ The Inquirer is Philadelphia’s largest newspaper. There were UGRR programs in town so this was another slant on the subject.
Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 22, 2004
Quilts’ role with slaves disputed
Anastasia Ustinova is a member of the Inquirer national staff
A popular book that asserts that escaped and freed slaves used quilts as message pads to guide themselves north on the Underground Railroad is under attack by scholars, who say its basic thesis is unproven.
Go to the website for rest of article!!!! You may have to copy it into Google and follow it through that way.
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/8009126.htm
Jan Drechsler in Vermont Quilt Restoration; Quilting teacher www.@/~bobmills
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 22:08:32 -0800 | From: ikwlt@
my quilt guild is currently working on our opportunity quilt for next year, and an “amish inspired” quilt is in progress. we didn’t really pay attention to regional colors, just asked for members to use solid colored fabrics that looked amish and furnished a black background fabric. it is set in a somewhat “square in a square” design, the stars make up the two squares. it is further modernized by stars in the borders of two of the opposite corners. we are using a quilting design book based on antique amish quilts for our patterns, and i am looking for a bit of guidance from anyone who might have made a replica, or is familiar with true amish quilts.
we would like to know what type of batting would be appropriate — several are insisting that it must be black because of the background fabric and site bearding as a concern to do this. cost is somewhat of a consideration, wool has been mentioned but now some are frantically looking for black wool batt. i volunteered the collective wisdom of this group to guide us to a workable solution so that we can move this project along. also, the question of thread color has become an issue. this quilt will be hand quilted by various members of the guild and we need to have the thread pass along with the quilt. some swear that it has to be black to be true amish (but of course the quilt itself defies that!), and others say that red is a very traditional color to be used so that the quilting stitches show. i’m hoping to be able to come to them with some concensus of those in the know so that we can continue on.
thank you for any input you might have to guide us along. patti
From: “Judy Anne” <anne_j@>
Laura, That’s wonderful that you will be publishing a book on talking quilts! I’ll be watching this list to see when it comes out. There is something about these quilts that I love, they have so much personality.
For those of you who live too far away to see the exhibit go to http://www.folkartmuseum.org Then click on ‘Talking Quilts’ in the upper left are some thumbnails. Click on those to see some interesting talking quilts. Of course they will only make you wish you could actually see the exhibit all the more.
Judy Anne
From: macdowel@
Dear List subscribers,
For an article I am working on I am interested in getting contemporary and historical data on numbers of quilts made as well as the amount of money raised for specific causes through quilt raffles, auctions, donations, sales. Any information or references to documents listing this data would be appreciated. Thank you.
Marsha MacDowell
[PS: This morning I also posted this query on H-Quilts and I am including below what Xenia has already so kindly sent. This is EXACTLY what I am looking for! What an impressive project and the numbers are amazing. I’m hoping other list subscribers will have such data.– Marsha ]
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:13:11 -0600 | From: Xenia Cord <xenia@>
Hi, Marsha – I don’t know if this is the sort of information you are looking for, but from 1990 to 2000 I helped to operate the “Yes Mam!” Mammogram project, which was (and is) the longest running quilters’ effort to use quilts to provide mammogram funding for underinsured women. In 2001 we (Annette Baker and I) sold the parent show, Quilt America, and the Yes Mam! project, to Rita Barber. She has moved the project from Indianapolis to Lancaster, PA, and continues to operate it as a function of her Quilters’ Heritage Celebration.
The project worked like this: quilters were challenged to buy specialty fabric printed by us, and to make quilts that could be used to raise funds for free mammograms in their home communities. The quilts could also be entered in a special competition at Quilt America, where they were judged like other quilts (1st, 2nd, 3rd based on technical merit), and the quilt that had earned the highest total for its home community in that year received an award matching up to $2000 of the raised amount. Quilters who won the regular awards most often donated that amount ($500, 250, 100) to their project as well.
In addition, we held a raffle quilt and a charity auction each year at Quilt America, with the auctioned items having been donated by quilters and vendors in attendance, and others in support of the project. Funds raised locally (Indianapolis) through the auction, raffle, and sale of the fabric and a special Yes Mam pin were donated by Quilt America to local imaging facilities.
I can provide you with the following data, compiled in 2000. The entries in each line are as follows (except for 1990): The auction total; the match QA provided to the top fundraiser; the technical merit award total; the reported totals raised by the quilts in competition in that year; the gross total for the year. Yes Mam Records
1990 QA donation $3000 (project introduced at show) $3000.00 1991 QA donation $2432.87, match $1335, award $850, quilts total $5053.50 $9671.37 1992 QA donation $3285.00, match $2166, award $850, quilts total $7276.00 $13,577.00 1993 QA donation $2934.00, match $2500, award $850, quilts total $15,934.00 $22,218.00 1994 QA donation $4000.00, match $2242, award $850, quilts total $ 2242.00 $9334.00 1995 QA donation $6000.00, match $2000, award $850, quilts total $9269.00 $18,119.00 1996 QA donation $10,786.56, match $2000, award $850, quilts total $5443.41 $22,079.97 1997 QA donation $10.000, match $2000, award $850, quilts total $13,209.48 $26,059.48 1998 QA donation $8700, match $2000, award $850, quilts total $11,825.35 $23,375.35 1999 QA donation $12,267.71, match $1000, award $850, quilts total $2072 $16,189.71 2000 QA donation $15,535.44, match $2000, award $850, quilts total $19.204.99 $37,626.43
TOTAL DONATIONS FROM ALL SOURCES: $201, 250.31 (end of July, 2000)
Notes: These are just the quilts we were aware of because they were sent to QA for exhibit. QA donation totals come from the auction, raffle quilt, sale of kits and pins, and have gone to several area imaging facilities.. We are aware that most winners donate their awards to the projects they have created in their home towns.
Xenia Cord
From: Jccullencrew@
In a message dated 2/29/2004 6:33:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, macdowel@ writes: TOTAL DONATIONS FROM ALL SOURCES: $201, 250.31 (end of July, 2000) Xenia, What a successful project idea. I had never heard of it before. I have friends still afraid to have a mameo. Is there a place to get the Yes mam info or pins that I get a hold of and give to them? Congratulations on a wonderful idea that really took off. Carol Grace
From: Xenia Cord
As I said in the review of the “Yes Mam!” mammogram project, I am no longer associated with the project. You would have to be in touch with Rita Barber of Carlinville, IL, who owns the project now and operates it through her Lancaster, PA, show, Quilters Heritage Celebration.
Xenia
