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Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:00:33 -0500 | From: “Kathy Moore” Regarding Xenia’s wonderful description of the exhibit of antique quilts inPaducah: the palampore you mention was first shown and described at the AQSGmeeting in Lincoln in 2002. Time flies when you’re having fun, doesn’t it?!!! Thanks, Xenia, for…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 22:07:31 EDT | From: KareQuilt@ Hi Julie et al. I am looking at your quilt’s twin on page 15 of Rosalind Webster Perry’s book “Marie Webster’s Garden of Quilts,” which in itself is a photo of the page from the 1912 edition of Ladies’…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:25:48 +0100 | From: “Sally Ward” Can anyone answer this for a friend of mine in Yorkshire? Sally W > Anyone out there have any idea what a ‘flock’ quilt might have been? Before > you all go rushing of to the dictionary we…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 22:50:32 +0800 | From: “Roberta Geanangel” Try USCD the FFA film library. They have a copy listed and may let you borrow it. Roberta in Florida Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:09:19 -0500 | From: “Teddy Pruett” When my last son-at-home was young, we…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:58:04 -0500 | From: “Cinda Cawley” The Fabric Dating Club sponsored by hazel Carter and Bunnie Jordan met in Annandale, VA on Sunday. The topic was “Your Oldest Quilt.” You all know how hard it is to find a pre-1850 quilt. Well, now you’ll…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 21:37:48 -0600 | From: “Kelly Robinson” <ksrobinson@> Carolyn, If your pattern does turn out to be associated with Marion Whiteside Newton, one of her descendants is now re-printing some of her story book patterns. They were applique and ranged from “Little Women”, “Pinocchio” to…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 13:13:36 -0600 | From: Mary Waller <mswaller@> I just purchased an interesting book, INDIAN STAR QUILTS, by Nancy Tucker, on the history and contemporary making and use of star quilts. Published in 1999, ISBN 0-9671124-0-0. Dr. Tucker taught Native American Studies at Montana State….
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:59:30 -0500 | From: “Phyllis Twigg” <ptwigg@> Hi! Judi Gunter and I were lucky enough to acquire yardage of the original Eisenhower Toile. As a matter of fact, we have more than we need so we are willing to part with some of it….
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 09:29:40 -0000 | From: “Sally Ward” <sallytatters@> Can anyone tell me anything about this curious blanket I found on ebay? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2508924819&category=2221 Sally W in the UK Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 16:29:42 CST | From: jocelynm@ On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:36:12 EST Kittencat3@…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 20:26:34 -0500 | From: “Sondra Biacchi” <quilt@> palampore Message-ID: In the book THE PIECED QUILT, pp. 15 is a pic of a flowering mid-18th century Palampore, Tree of Life. A friend of mine is quite taken with this quilt. According to the book the…