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, 16 May 2002 22:40:05 -0500 | From: “Junior/Peggy McBride” This is rather an aside, but you need to remember that the large majority of women who went west, did not go because it was their idea. Many went because they had no choice. The head of the…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 23:49:36 -0400 | From: “Jan Drechsler” After numerous e-mail inquiries about Memere’s quilt which had been mistreated and needed restoration and the memories of the fabric scraps from her mother’s dresses, I couldn’t wait to open the package when it arrived. I knew that…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 23:31:08 -0400 | From: “judygrow” <judygrow@> I sent him a like message too. I wonder how many others of us did? Fess up now. As of a moment ago he had 103 hits on this book and not one bid. Some of those hits…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:58:40 -0400 | From: “Gibson, Nancy” <ngibson@> For the Fag code go to the DAR website at www.dar.org. Click on therightside of the page “President General Salutes Patriotism.” go to theFlagCode. Everything you need to know will be there. Nancy GibsonCurator of Textiles/Public Affairs…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 07:58:10 -0800 | From: Chris Flynn <lovechris@> Hello all…. I have to tell you how jealous I am of all the quilthistoryworkshops, lectures, classes offered everywhere but here!! I’ll pickupsome classes in Paducah…. but…. do any of you know of offeringsway outWest??Thanks so much,Chris…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 22:54:16 -0500 | From: “Kalmia@” <kalmia@> _Old Swedish Quilts_ [Gamla svenska lapptäcken], by Åsa Wettre. English translation published 1995 by Interweave Press. Åsa put together an exhibition connected with this book. I saw it in Hjörring, Denmark, a year and a half ago, on…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 23:17:47 -0500 | From: Barb Garrett <bgarrett@> For those of you venturing to Lancaster during Quilt Week the first week of April, these are some other locations of vintage quilt exhibits — Feedsack Club Conference –http://members.aol.com/feedsack1/conference.html Patterns of Pennsylvania: Quilts from the Heritage Center’sCollectionSchwenkfelder…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:34:02 -0800 | From: “Mindy Sharp” <Mindy@> In 1991, Reconciliation Quilt sold at Sothebys for $264,000. It is apictorial album quilt made buy Lucinda Ward Honstain. Does anyone know whenthis quilt was made? It is housed at the International Quilt Study Center. MindyWhen life…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 04:58:10 | From: “Anne Copeland” <anneappraiser@> Wasn’t there a quilt recently with the initials WSC on it that peoplewereasking about? WSC was Western Sanitary Commission, which was abranch ofthe Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. Organized to helpcreatebetter sanitary conditions in the Northern war…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:58:51 -0500 | From: “Cinda Cawley” <lrcawley@> Mindy, Treasures in the Trunk: Quilts of the Oregon Trail by Mary Bywater Cross is the place to start. Cinda on the Eastern Shore Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 18:57:48 -0900 | From: “Gloria Hanrahan” <gloria@> I…