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Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 01:11:23 -0400 | From: “Judy Grow” <Judygrow [at] blast [dot] net >I’ve failed miserably with my dd’s as far as the quilting heritage being passed down in my family, (they don’t know how to thread a needle)… Karen — give them time. I too…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 22:21:39 -0400 | From: Anthony Jones <ajones2 [at] tampabay [dot] rr [dot] com This is important to all of us. Especialy in heritage quilters who may be tempted to copy a quilt we see in a museum or historic house. Besides courtesy, you have…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 21:27:44 EDT | From: Qltldy10 [at] aol [dot] com Jean, I’m days behind in my mail, so I hope someone else told you this… but… name of the book I have is Forties Fabrics, by Joy Shih, a Schiffer Design Book. Schiffer Publishing, 77…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 21:21:42 +0400 | From: Xenia Cord <xecord [at] netusa1 [dot] net> 7bit L & M made a L & M made a brand of cigarettes called Eve sometime in the 1970s, I believe. Perhaps the fabric is related to that brand, which appears to…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:39:19 -0700 | From: BLF [at] fwpa [dot] com (BLF) Recent talk of male quilters prompted my memory that several years ago there was an exhibit of quilts that were all made by men at the Grout Museum in Waterloo, Iowa. I believe it…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 22:26:19 EDT | From: Tom1Glo2 [at] aol [dot] com I have made about 5 flannel quilts under the tuteledge of Fabric Expression people in Denver. They advised me to use the lightest poly batt available as even the two layers of flannel make them…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 21:37:35 -0600 | From: “William G. French” <alaska [at] radiks [dot] net Today while viewing a small quilt display at the Museum of Nebraska History in Lincoln, NE, I saw a crazy quilt embroidered with “Hurrah for McKinley & Gold”. This was a friendship…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 22:11:38 EDT | From: Feathrwate [at] aol [dot] com Xenia, isn’t Cloth of Gold originally from Greenwood, SC? They have an outlet store in Spartanburg, which was recently moved from Hendersonville, NC. I bet Georgia Bonesteel knows where Cloth of Gold was manufactured Linda…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 00:16:21 -0400 | From: “Judy Grow” <Judygrow [at] blast [dot] net >I have 3 wool braided area rugs that were made by a great grandmother who died in her 80’s in the early 1960’s. ……but they need to >be cleaned and I considered getting…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 20:06:53 +0000 | From: “Monika Jones” <monikaj [at] mail [dot] cdsnet [dot] net hi……don’t know the answer to that………. but extracting dye from paper, I would lay the paper in a bowl of water. That should release the color, then add your yarn or…