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, 24 Oct 2005 08:05:57 -0500 | From: “Rosie Werner” <rwerner@> I had a similar problem. I was blocking a feathered star wall hanging in preparation for entering it at the fair. When I wet it the navy blue hand dye fabric bled all over the light fabrics….
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: “Lucinda Cawley” The research papers are the focus of the AQSG Seminar. You can read them in Uncoverings 2005. Karen Alexander had done a great job of telling you about the wonderful people who made this amazing weekend (Thursday to Sunday) possible. I’ll fill you in on the…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 22:39:53 +1000 | From: “Quiltstuff” <quiltstuff@> Hard to believe that a quilt that elaborate could be even thought of using as a moving pad. So glad it will end up somewhere where it is appreciated Suzy > I had the pleasure of evaluating a…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: “Alan” I have a question for the authors on the list. I was laying in bed the other morning, when an idea for a book crossed my mind. How do I start? and how do I find a publisher? Iguess this probably out to be answered privately. Alan…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: “Jeff & Sheri Lesh” <jefflesh@> During the cleaning out of my grandparents’s house, when they moved to an apartment. I aquired grandma’s cedar chest and all the family quilts. I also found a stack of signature blocks that had not been put together. So last fall I went…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: JLHfw@ Dear Pat, Which Rose Wilder Lane book are you referring to? Janet in Fort Worth From: “Lynne Z. Bassett” <lzbassett@> Thank you to all of you who have written to congratulate me on my whole-cloth quilts article in the current issue of Antiques! I greatly value your…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Elaine Kelly I mentioned WW2 Red Cross quilts last week. The stories keep turning up, and shortly after that post I was contacted by the friend of a lady in her 70s who is worrying where ‘her’ RC quilt will end up in the future. . . Its…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:30:35 -0500 | From: Gail Ingram <gingram@> > enough to want to make provision for it ‘in case’. (Its label declares > it to come from Kitchener, Canada – if there’s anyone who knows the > place I’d love to hear from you). Sally,…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:54:49 -0400 | From: joan kiplinger <jkip@> Judy and all — here is a first-hand account from my friend of 25 years who has lived in NO for past 8 years and has been wanting to move back to her native GA. She left…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:22:15 -0400 | From: Patricia L Cummings <quiltersmuse@> Yesterday, my husband and I wanted a brief respite from work. Since we work at home, when we are home, we are working! We decided to take a little ride up the road a piece, as…