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: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 06:24:29 -0500 | From: “Zendelle Bouchard” <zendelle@> A woman I know has a ’70s quilt top made for her by a friend, it isscrapsquares about 5″ with a yoyo in the center of each one. Each squareand yoyois a different polyester doublknit. Sounds hideous…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 09:56:19 -0500 | From: “Nancy Roberts” <aquilter@> The letters WRC rang a bell in my head when I first saw them, and this morning the words Women’s Relief Corps came to me. I did a bit of searching on the internet and found these…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 20:25:24 -0500 | From: “Cinda Cawley” <lrcawley@> Joe Cunningham, on Simply Quilts this afternoon, said that the Amish stopped using wool in their quilts at the beginning of WWII when it became impossible to get on the civilian market since wool was being used…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 00:31:09 -0600 | From: Becky Sunderman <sewcarve@> I have been reading the comments about quilts being sold oneBay with interest, as I am auctioning some of my quilts therenow, and have had some up for auction that did not sell in thelast month. They…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 22:33:50 -0500 | From: seater@ Turkish and other oriental carpets are always shown this way, both in US and in Turkey. In Ankara and Istanbul in Feb 2000 we were always offered tea to sip while the rugs were “turned”, but that hasn’t happened…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:18:18 -0500 | From: “Cinda Cawley” <lrcawley@> Once again Hazel Carter and Bunnie Jordan organized anoutstandingexcursion into quilt history. The Fabric Dating Club (it’s much morefun todrop Fabric from the name and see the quizzical looks that women “ofacertain age” get when we announce…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:24:05 -0500 | From: “Cinda Cawley” I was giving a talk to a quilt guild near Ocean City, MD today and a woman showed me something I’d never seen before. From a distance it looked like an indigo and white Lady of the Lake…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 21:58:50 -0000 | From: “Sally Ward” <Sally.D.Ward@> Somebody please explain? ‘Bed spreader and Straightener’? How bigwould thisthing be, and how did it work?http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1500062955 <img alt=”Mvc-906s.jpg (13844 bytes)” border=”2″ height=”48″ src=”./02007_files/Mvc-906s_small.jpg” width=”100″/><img alt=”Mvc-905s.jpg (8658 bytes)” border=”2″ height=”20″ src=”./02007_files/Mvc-905s_small.jpg” width=”100″/><img alt=”Mvc-907s.jpg (9575 bytes)” border=”2″ height=”27″ src=”./02007_files/Mvc-907s_small.jpg”…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 23:22:48 EST | From: [from unknown] Hi all; I need a quilt appraiser or textile conservator in the Lancaster, PA area. Any ideas? Thanks, Darwin Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 08:39:10 EST | From: [from unknown] i think lynn hit the “nail on the…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 23:30:17 -0800 | From: Chris Flynn <lovechris@> Hello everyone…. please, if you have a moment, let me know what you think I should do about this situation. Last April I was approached by an ebay seller to purchase a wonderful redwork quilt, privately, off…