These restored messages come from the Quilt History List, an online forum where quilt historians, collectors, researchers, appraisers, and enthusiasts discussed antique quilts and related textiles. The archive dates from 1996 through approximately 2016 and is being restored gradually. Original spelling, opinions, formatting, and inactive links may remain unchanged.
Primary Topics in this QHL Digest Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 22:05:07 -0500 (EST) | From: BBMorris [at] aol [dot] com I have a quilt made by my great grandmother that has both old and new fabrics in it. Some small squares of the old fabric is pieced to have a large enough piece to…
Primary Topics Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 00:01:37 -0500 | From: Gail Wagner I’ve thought long and hard about this message because I don’t want to anger anyone, but it’s said there’s two things you shouldn’t discuss – religion and politics and it seems that the image of the swastika and the Stars and Bars…
Primary Topics: Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 22:27:00 -0500 | From: Post msudv [at] pilot [dot] msu [dot] edu Nancy – You surely did hit the jackpot with your Featherweight & a table too!! They are very hard to come by. Quilters like the FW for piecing because the stitch is second to none and…
Primary topics of this QHL Archive Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 22:56:12 -0500 (EST) | From: JZgliniec [at] aol [dot] com Colby’s Quilting gives some origins ..but not much speculation. Mostly it is descriptive of what types of motifs and filler patterns were being used and when as well as period names for things. It…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest (January 23–31, 1997): Well, I did go to the Red and Green Exhibit at the Museum of our NationalHeritage this weekend. I got to meet Merikay Walvogel and she waswonderful! Very nice person. I took her picture & will post it to the webpage as soon as it is…
Primary topics of this QHL digest: Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 20:54:08 -0700From: ayjones [at] tacoma [dot] nwrain [dot] net (Yvonne Jones)To: QHL [at] cue [dot] comSubject: QHL: Red and GreenMessage-Id:Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” Dear quilt friends, I went to In The Beginning today, it is a quilt store in Seattle. There isa display of the…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: 22 Dec 96 11:39:31 EST From: Rabbit Goody Ok now I am really going to get myself in hot water. Textile fabric names Linsey-woolsey ok what do we really know? Yes cloths coming from Linsey Engalnd were sometimes called linsey as town names were helpful for distinguishing regional…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest (mid-to-late December 1996): Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 04:53:19 +0000 | From: Susan Nixon <Desertsky [at] worldnet [dot] att [dot] net> I believe it was Carolyn Davis who researched and wrote about the quilts of an LDS woman in southern Utah. Pinedale, maybe? The woman, even into late in…
Primary topics of this QHL digest (initial December 1996 postings): Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:00:21 -0500 | From: Debbie Roberts < QuiltAppraiser [at] wow [dot] com > My name is Debbie Roberts, and I’ve loved quilts for as long as I can remember. However, my main interest is focused on antique and ‘old’…