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Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 12:40:27 -0800 | From: “Marilyn Withrow” <marilynquilts@> It’s interesting to read different people’s immediate impressions of a different quilt block. To me, the block looked like Noah’s Ark, but with a very deep bottom — to someone else, it looked like tubs of candy….
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:01:38 -0800 | From: “Alan” We have to remember that these images were probably taken from life. You know the eternal black woman, probably a slave, in her long skirts, sleeves rolled up, and hair in a kercheif for convenience. But these snapshots of…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:12:32 -0600 | From: Gail Ingram <gingram@> I have no bear stories, merci dieu. Yet, we have been reintroducing black bears into Louisiana for a while now. First in the Tensas (ten saw) swamp area where Teddy Roosevelt found his bear cub. By now,…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 05:22:52 -0700 | From: gingham@ Julie, From a quick search: Brackman 2992 The Double Pineapple -Rural New Yorker 11/21/31 Okay, so do I win the quilt???? Does it need a good home? Sandra in Utah Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:16:50 -0600 | From:…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Pat Cummings Dear Mitzi: It is pretty easy to copyright a book or other design item that you want to claim as your own work. The forms are fairly short and concise, and you can download them from your home computer. To copyright a book, one sends $30.00…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: “Sharon in NC” Yes a technique can be patented. A very good recent example is the “Cotton Theory”.. The drawbacks.. Teachers will not pay the exorbitant fees she requires to be able to “teach her methods”…Also the patent itself is online so anyone who wishes to can go…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:31:03 +0000 | From: jocelynm@ On March 10, 2006, Pat Cummings wrote: > comes to mind is that ANY of the current preferred > words that are used to describe people whose ancestors > came from Africa are an improvement Pat, Yes. I think…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 22:23:16 -1000 | From: Loretta Woodard <Lwoodard@> La Conner museum is hosting an exhibit of contemporary Hawaiian quilts made by Hawaii artists. “Hawaiian Quilt Inspiration,” curated by Patricia Lei Murray, will be on view March 15 – May 14, 2006. An article about Patricia…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:11:10 -0600 | From: Gail Ingram <gingram@> To what Alan, Phyllis, and Karen have said, may I add a couple of suggestions? First, you might also want to obtain the Smithsonian’s “Guide to Folklife Research” (probably not the exact title, but almost). Copies are…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:43:46 -0800 | From: Julie Silber <quiltcomplex@> Another question for you good people: I recently did a day of quilt appraisals at a museum here in California. I was shown an all white wholecloth, hand quilted “Bride’s Quilt.” I would have pegged it at…