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: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 19:14:15 -0700 | From: Julie Silber <quiltcomplex@ Hi All, Re: Blue&White and Temperance: From “Hearts and Hands: The Influence of Women and Quilts on American Society” (1991), Page 87: “…and, of course innumerable quilts, still extant, made by individual women show their temperance sympathies…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 19:44:10 PDT | From: “Anne Copeland” <anneappraiser@> Just do it; you are the one who will pay the money for the quilt(s), and you deserve to see any quilt you might purchase fully so you can be aware of condition, etc. If the storekeeper…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 07:03:02 PDT | From: “Ann-Louise Beaumont” <albeaumont@ This is just to add to Diane Shink’s (HI Diane)list of Canadian quilt books. “Ontario’s Heritage Quilts” by Marilyn I. Walker (1992) has beautiful photos. Ruth McKendry has written another book, “Classic Quilts” (1997). As far as…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 01:25:21 EDT | From: CBENBERRY@ There were nine quilt pattern pamphlets in the #3000 series published by the Aunt Martha Studios, Kansas City , MO. They are#3175 Quilt Designs-Old Favorites and New; #3230 Aunt Martha’s Favorite Quilts; #3333 Quilts, Modern and Colonial; #3500 Easy…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 22:29:29 -0400 | From: “Judy Grow” <Judygrow@> In case our redwork people have missed this one. It ends tomorrow (Tuesday). Gone With The Wind – Unusual Vintage Quilt (item #152246116) http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=152246116 Do you think this is one-of-a kind, or have you seen it before?Judy…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:35:27 -0500 | From: Shirley Spencer <ShirleySpencer@ The current use of the term “bed turning” would be a method of showing quilts. Our quilt guild always has a bed turning at our quilt show. The bed is piled with quilts and a knowledgable person…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:20:45 -0500 | From: Karen Bush <Birdsongworldnet.att.net> PLEASE don’t misunderstand…you didn;t get my dander up at all!!! Just my own opinion on the way some quilters count, just like anything else…people do things differently. I just didn’t want you or anyone else to be…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 08:23:37 EDT | From: Tubeywooby@ In a message dated 8/7/99 8:59:27 PM, QHL-Digest-request@ writes: << but it is a series of 1/4 circles that “kinda” stack up next to one another. >>Drunkards Path?(my mamas favorite)Melissa Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 12:38:08 -0700 | From:…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 23:50:45 EDT | From: KareQuilt@ Wow! Thanks for your responses. I was so pleased to discover there are at least three quilters doing research on the imported quilts. Now I don’t feel so “silly” for having saved all those catalogues. [I kid you not;…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 21:45:03 +0400 | From: Xenia Cord <xecord [at] netusa1 [dot] net Hi, all – Have been on vacation and am picking up the threads of discussion from amidst 258 messages. No one has mentioned those of us who give lectures and other programs on…