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, 19 Jul 2001 23:59:22 -0400 | From: “Jan Drechsler” <quiltdoc@> Dear Judy, Re: Sandpaper, templates, adhesive tape, Civil War bandages, Morse Code andlong pieces of newspaper… You need to get more sleep! Am sending my yoga book, meditation tapes and chocolate by express mail. Aone week supply…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 08:08:52 -0500 | From: Laura Hobby Syler <texas_quilt.co@> Hi Hollis, I think you may be right, But I have a **9** pointed lone star quilt… We all know about ooching and scooching diamonds so that they will lay flat. I’ve seen too many 7-pointed…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 21:38:29 EDT | From: MLEDevine@ Dear QHL: Does anyone know of sources for information on needlework schools in the 1850s? I am doing research to back up a statement that I made in a course. I made a rash statement in regard to the…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 16:19:04 -0400 | From: “Kris Driessen” <krisdriessen@> >My husband (Kory Berrett) is a museum conservator in private practice. Three >years ago he informally tested the lightfastness of the proprietary >”indelible” >pens on the market, including Pigma, Sharpie, and Identapen. Only >Identapen as it >was…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:06:19 -0500 (Central Daylight Time) | From: Mary Persyn <Mary.Persyn@> FYI – The Indiana Historical Society is mounting a new exhibit, starting May 12, entitled “A Working Life.” The exhibit will “explore the contributions of three Hoosiers to Indiana’s rich history of art and…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 20:50:30 -0700 | From: “Christine Thresh” <christinewinnowing.com> I think the hand vs. machine quilting subject has historical importance. I’ve heard that when the sewing machine was newly popular (1860s or 70s) quilters machine quilted their quilts even if they had hand pieced them. They…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 22:14:04 -0500 | From: “Mary Voss” <voss@> On page 20 of the Dharma Trading Co. Spring /Summer Catalog they show a line of natural(plant ) dyes that include Indigo, Madder Root, Cochineal and many other natural dyes. The notation is that they comeFrom plants…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:45:47 -0600 | From: Marcia Kaylakie <marciark@> HI! Can anyone help me with titles for Crystal Carter’s books? I know some had to do with using old blocks and making them into new quilts. Thanks for the info; please feel free to mail me…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 11:07:36 -0500 | From: Beth Donaldson <quilts@ The Great Lakes Quilt Center at the Michigan State University Museum is holding a Michigan Quilt Project Documentation Day on Saturday, March 17, 2001, from 11 am – 4 pm in the MSU Musuem’s auditorium. We invite…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:07:18 -0600 | From: Gail Ingram <GIngram@ Re Susan Wildemuth’s request for contact information for Helen Ericson of Mrs. Danner’s Quilts: Mrs. Erickson is holding forth brilliantly in Emporia, KS. Her address is P.O. Box 650, Emporia, KS 66801. In fact, she is doing…