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 of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:47:01 -0500 | From: Ann Wasserman <annwssrmn@> Hi – I’m a long-time lurker, with a question. A woman wrote to me for help with a quilt (made by her great-grandmother) that has been stained with pepper spray during a break-in at her home. If…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Sandra G Munsey <munsey@> Aunt Martha’s Modernistic Star Pattern is Brackman No. 268.5 and may be found in Block Base software. Template patterns may be printed from Block Base. The notecard says it was printed in Aunt Martha’s Prize Winning Quilts in 1931. Sandra on Cape Cod —-__JNP_000_1662.01ba.6c4c–…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 07:15:33 EST | From: Palampore Another suggestion for our fabric stash culling —- When the Iraq War began my son headed up a project to send items to 25 sailors, one of whom was a cousin of our’s. Late one night I was trying…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:33:36 -0500 | From: Louise (ltiemann) I have read the posts on Walmart closing their fabric departments to make room for electronics. Several people noted that the prices of quilt shop fabric might increase (it probably will). One thing that struck me was that…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:37:45 +0000 | From: Sally Ward (sallytatters) The recent interesting thread on fabric costs comes hard on the heels of a small epiphany of my own. In the UK we don’t have cheap fabric sources like Walmart, we have expensive fabric (in your terms…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:06:48 -0500 | From: Xenia Cord (xenia) According to the list of Webster patterns and kits in page 125 of Marie Webster’s Garden of Quilts, Tiger Lily is not one of her designs. Needlecraft did indeed publish Webster patterns in kit form, without attribution….
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 11:55:30 -0800 (PST) | From: karenquilt Dear QHLers, I recently stumbled across an old copy of the novel “Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All” at our annual Thanksgiving Used Bookfair here on the island and started reading it a week ago during the unusually deep…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Laura Fisher I have been trying to have at least one good chuckle a day, as I have been feeling under the weather here in raw wet NYC, and today I got it with the Quilter’s Muse site. As I went to read about Shaker quilts, of which…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:12:49 EST | From: Mitzioakes Pat – I love all your articles that appear on the QHL site, and I see that you are also interested in embroidery and Redwork. I’d love to ‘talk’ to you about this art (now getting very popular), specially…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:37:57 -0700 | From: gingham Laurel, It might be Crystal Mountain 1977-78 which I found on page 69 of Robert Shaw’s The Art Quilt. The description says it is the first Gutcheon made employing Diamond Patchwork. As pictured the top half of the quilt…