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: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 | From: “Galinette” <galinette@> hello, i’m will vidinic from paris, i quilt since 1978, and most of the time i copy antique quilts. i will be a lurker most of the time , my english is not so good. my interest at the moment…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 | From: “Charlotte Bull” <charlou@> As we settle down on Monday Morning, after our delightful Holiday Correspondence, I wanted to tell you that you all were “ringing my bells” with your different topics. Thanks! One of my favorite Lone Star quilts was made in…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 | From: “Bonnie Dwyer” <bonniedwyergwi.net> Hi there, Bonnie Dwyer, quilting librarian from Maine here. I always urge folks to use their local, or nearby larger, libraries to request photocopies of journal articles via interlibrary loan (ILL). Maine and many other states have a wonderful…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 | From: “Jocelyn” I just bought a quilt top. The patchwork blocks (a multicolor 1930’s print and white) are in a pattern I’ve not seen before, reminiscent of Xquisite, but forming elongated stars, not Xs. It has 4 borders attached, all plain Cloth of…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 | From: “Jean Carlton” <jeancarlton@ Thanks Marsha andseveral others who had info on crazy quilts using = fabric from highbutton shoes/linings. Is there a way to see a photo of = the one atMSU museum?=20 jean Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 07:13:10 -0500 |…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 07:28:25 -0500 | From: Judy Roche <jrocheq@ Julie, Would like to see the ‘most interesting back’ on a 1940s Ninepatch. My Amish quilts all have plain backs (of course in glorious colors),but then they are all Lancaster and one Center Valley(is that right? western…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 10:03:29 | From: EMetcalfe@ Recently there was a good discussion on basting sprays for quilts, and I have a question about marking implements for them. I have been using either the water erasable or air erasable pens to get my design on the borders…..
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 | From: “Sally Ward” <sallytatters@> As a footnote to this past thread, I’ve asked someone who has spent the last 25 years looking at, UK quilts (a member of the Quilt Treasures documentation team) if she has come across dyed wool wadding. I also…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 | From: Donald Beld <donbeld@> Hi, I am in the process of donating a Garfield’s Monument quilt my great-great-grandmother, Perthina Bailey, (don’t you love her first name) made in the mid to late 1880 to the Lincoln Shrine in Redlands, California. However, it has…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 2 Oct | From: Marthapatches36@ What a wonderful ending, so glad a quilter looked in the box. l Hate to think our airlines and/or airports would have deliberately taken it. Date: Thu, 2 Oct [date inferred — no Date: header in source] | From: diane shink <dimacquilt@>…