February 23 – 28, 1997
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Primary Topics in this QHL Digest
- Resolution of the family quilt-cutting dilemma — advice on making labeled reproduction copies and a rotating-custody will provision, plus a reflection on who really gets to decide if something is an heirloom.
- The allergy-triggering quilt, continued — a request that people include their personal email under the cuenet list address, prompted by the original poster not getting replies.
- Wool batting in practice — a member’s experience quilting through a wool batt for the first time, with cats already eyeing it.
- “Sister prints” and same-fabric-multiple-colorways debate — a discussion of whether using the same print in different colorways within one antique quilt was historically common, including a “factory cutaways” explanation for scrappy same-fabric quilts.
- A missing quilt museum — a question about what happened to the former American Quilt Museum in Marietta, PA.
- Quaker quilting traditions research request — a member looking for books or articles specifically on Quaker quiltmaking.
- Book recommendations — several titles come up: “Aunt Grace’s Scrapbag Fifth Anniversary” (reproduction ’30s fabrics), a reprint of a “No Time On My Hands” review (Grace Snyder autobiography), and a “Quilt With the Best” mention of Merikay Waldvogel’s dating-clues chapter.
- Quilts as asylum therapy — a note on a book section covering quiltmaking as treatment in 19th-century insane asylums.
- Dallas Quilt Celebration ’97 show announcement — details on the show dates, judges, vendors, and special exhibits.
- A house fire and quilt collection loss — a member reports a fellow quilter’s apartment fire destroyed her cats, quilts, vintage garments, and fabric collection.
- Keystone/Brownsville PA fundraising quilt research, continued — more back-and-forth on the ~1930 Indiana Co., PA signature quilt project.
- Feedsack Club and sample exchange, continued — ongoing requests to join and trade feedsack samples.
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 22:05:07 -0500 (EST) | From: BBMorris [at] aol [dot] com
I have a quilt made by my great grandmother that has both old and new fabrics in it. Some small squares of the old fabric is pieced to have a large enough piece to finish that block. Some of the solids were “NEW” feed sacks that were home dyed a navy blue that ran when the quilt was washed the first time. I have no problem with combining old with new fabrics as long as the old ones are in good condition. I am just keeping up a family tradition
Barbara in GA
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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 23:10:47 -0500 (EST) | From: LISA108 [at] delphi [dot] com
I have a wool batt, but after several attempts (and problems with one of my cats, who enjoye *eating* the batt) with it I use it mainly for trapunto. I’m sticking with Warm ‘n Natural until I find something better…but I don’t use polyester for anything serious these days.
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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 22:37:56 -0600 | From: ShirleySpencer
I just love this list. I’ve been subscribing since issue #10, so thought it was time I introduced myself.
I’ve been interested in vintage quilts for several years and have collected many quilts, tops, and blocks. I have devoured Brackman and many other quilt history books as well as the state documentary books.
I am a member of the Quilt Restoration Society – been to both conferences and have met many of you there. I’m active in my local quild, have served on the board in many capacities. Actually I’m quite ready to sit back next year and listen and watch.
I find I am particularly interested in quilts made on the frontier and the difficulties those women encountered. Because of that I have dabbled a little in natural dyeing to see just how difficult that was for our foremothers. I certainly am not expert, but I’ve learned a lot.
Haven’t had time to do it for some time.
I have a vintage quilt dilemma. See my next post.
Shirley Spencer in Rockford, Illinois ShirleySpencer [at] Prodigy [dot] net
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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 23:17:23 -0600 | From: ShirleySpencer
I have a friend who has a crib quilt made my her mother in the 30’s. It is a Sunbonnet Sue summer quilt with no batting.
My friend, I will call her Lucy, wants to give this quilt to her children. She wants each of her three grown sons to have a piece of it, and she actually started to cut it up in order to make 3 pillows. It now has a small cut in it. Right after she cut it, she showed it to me and told me her intent. I tried very hard to not go ballistic and scream “Do not cut this quilt up.” I took a deep breath and tried to explain that when you are done, you will have pieces of a quilt, but you will no longer have your beloved quilt. It will no longer BE a quilt.
I gave her several suggestions. Keep the quilt for a while until you see which of your sons or their wives or their children might want and appreciate your baby quilt. After all, not all of our children like quilts and maybe they won’t want it at all. Particularly since it is a Sunbonnet Sue and more appealing to girls. She was adamant that she wanted each ofthem to have a piece of this quilt. I suggested that pillows sometimes become worn, dirty, and are thrown away. I told her I would be happy to help her repair the small cut so she could keep it as a quilt. I also suggested she could make copies of it.
Pretty soon I realized I was getting too involved here and I could see she really didn’t like my ideas, so because we are friends I dropped the subject and never asked about it again and Lucy never mentioned it. This happened a few years ago. I’ve often wondered what happened to that quilt.
I guess I should say here that I am a more experienced quilter than she is, but she has made some baby quilts for her grandkids and others. We were recently together vacationing at the same spot. We went to a couple quilt shops together and she is getting interested in more serious quilting. I have been encouraging and shared a lot of magazines and stuff with her because I would really like to see her spread her wings.
She finally mentioned the quilt one day saying she still had it and had done nothing with it. She added that she had had her mother sign each block before she died. I was delighted to hear that the quilt was still in one piece and asked her what she had decided to do? She said she was thinking about it but wanted to finish up her current project. I was encouraged that she brought the subject up, since she knows how I feel.
That’s where it stands now. What do you think? I welcome your comments.
ShirleySpencer [at] prodigy [dot] net
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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 97 22:26:31 -0800 | From: beth_novak [at] om [dot] cv [dot] hp [dot] com
Item Subject: cc:Mail Text Hello fellow quilters, I’m new to the list.
I have a strange problem that I’ve never run across before. I purchased a depression era 4 point star/strings quilt that was extensively damaged by mice (three corners out of four were entirely missing, along with some large central holes). There was (and still is ) also some minor mildew staining. This was purchased from a well known dealer who must have had it cleaned because it should have smelled awful, and it smelled just fine. I diligently fixed the quilt, which was quite a major undertaking, and put a new backing on it. Looks great now, but a big problem has come up. Every time I am near that quilt my sinuses have a major attack and feel like they are swelling like balloons inside my head. Something about the quilt is giving me an allergy attack, and I have never had allergies in my life!
Could it be the cleaning solution that was used, the former presence of mice, the mildew, or something else? When working on the quilt, I noticed the cotton batting seemed rougher than any I have ever seen before. It seems like the batting was disintigrating or dusty, and had tiny black areas evenly spaced in the cotton (looked like part of the cotton itself, combed in). Maybe the cotton was never cleaned?
I put a lot of time into that old quilt, and would really like to be able to stand being near it. As it is, I’m even afraid that hanging it on the wall might be an irritant. An obvious solution might be to try to wash it, but some of the original fabric is looking so fragile I don’t think I should. I know this quilt is unsuitable to ever use on a bed, because some of the fabric is so fragile, but I’d like to be able to enoy it!
Any opinions or suggestions would be appreciated!
Beth_Novak [at] om [dot] cv [dot] hp [dot] com
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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 05:49:51 -0500 (EST) | From: Baglady111 [at] aol [dot] com
Well, Victoria, we too like to share oaur ‘vintage’ feedsacks with others..and you should have some..if you send me your snail mail address..I’ll send you some..Jane
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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 05:54:33 -0500 (EST) | From: Baglady111 [at] aol [dot] com
Hi Barbara, would like to know more aobut your feedsack quilt..the pattern, colors, etc..and yes , it probbly was dyed if it is navy..in solids I have never come across any dark colors..they seem to lean to the pastels.
altho, I jsut received a batch and the background is navy with flowers. in yellow..I awas surprised but pleased..jane
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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 09:12:54 -0500 (EST) | From: “Kris Driessen, Hickory Hill Antique Quilts”
Just picked up the mail and in it were some wonderful books from Halstead and Meadows Publishing. I bought Pieced from Ellen’s Quilt, Ellen Spaulding Reed’s Letters and Story; Elizabeth Roseberry Mitchell’s Graveyard Quilt, an American Pioneer Saga and Remember me; Women and their Friendship Quilts. Oh, they look wonderful! I bought three of each (so I could get the discount); if anyone wants one, please let me know.
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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 97 09:35:27 PST | From: John & Cinda Cawley
I posted my note to Merikay to the list because I thought it might be of some interest to others. In her book Soft Covers for Hard Times (p. 61) Merikay writes about a fundraising quilt in her collection called the Brownsville quilt. The Keystone quilt is mine. It consists of 25 blocks each emroidered with goldenrod, 10 signatures and an appliqued keystone.
It was made in Indiana Co. PA, probably around 1930. Merickay is trying to help me discover if it was taken from a published pattern. There were several collections of patterns of the states available at the time. So far I’ve only identified a handful of the 250 names on the quilt and have no idea why it was made. This is a long term project.
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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:07:54 -0500 (EST) | From: BBMorris [at] aol [dot] com
Thanks for your interest in my quilt. I went in the bedroom and took a close look at it. Most of the fabrics are leftovers from making clothing. It has a border of small squares around the whole quilt that are random colors and prints. It is real scrappy. I’m not real sure just what the pattern is.
I cannot find it in any of my books, Brackman and such. I have your snail mail address so I will take a photo of it and send it to you soon. Maybe you will have an idea of what pattern or where they got it. It sort of resembles an ocean wave but it uses squares and triangles and is pieced in a funny order. It is a real mystery to me.
Barbara in GA
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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 18:14:11 -0500 (EST) | From: LISA108 [at] delphi [dot] com
Here’s what I’d suggest to Lucy. Make two copies of the quilt, as close as she can, using vintage fabrics if possible and copying the techniques. Include a label on the copies stating the source and the maker. Then, talk to each of the boys in turn to determine which one would *really* appreciate the quilt and which ones are indifferent (or wait until they marry and see which of their wives would be a suitable keeper).
A second possibility would be to put a provision in her will giving the quilt to each son in turn for a specified period of time (say, two years), at which point he gives it to the next brother, on a rotating basis. At the end of the cycle, the boys themselves will know who really loves it and will be able to decide for themselves.
One thing Lucy (and everyone) should be aware of: it doesn’t matter if *she* thinks the quilt is an heirloom. It’s only an heirloom if the *legatee* thinks it is. My mother died late last year and left me a collection of some 25 antique German bisque headed dolls. She begged me several years ago to promise that I would never sell them. I didn’t – *couldn’t* – make that promise because, quite simply, my interests and my tastes aren’t hers. I kept three that I’d always liked and consigned the rest to a reputable auction house; I didn’t have the room (some of them are the size of toddlers!), didn’t have the desire to keep them, and didn’t have the means to store or display them properly. It would have been ultimately selfish of me to keep them and thus prevent collectors who *would* love and care for them from having the joy of owning these beautiful dolls. Although a quilt made by an ancestor isn’t in quite the same category, if none of Lucy’s boys wants it or is interested in it, she might want to find a relative (niece/nephew, someday maybe a grandchild) who is, and make appropriate provisions.
Just my two cents….:)
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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:49:16 -0500 | From: Mary Beth Goodman
I normally use Hobbs Heirloom for quilting and like it very much. Tried Warm and Natural once but it was a little too dense for me – thought it made the quilt seem a bit too stiff, even after having been prewashed etc.
I am using a Hobbs Wool Batt in a wool quilt – it is wonderful to quilt thru. But I am sure that the cats are going to be VERY fond of this quilt…. so no body is getting near it until it’s finished (many MANY miles of quilting to do on this one) and it’s been shown a bit.
Then they can drool on it all they want! LOL Mary Beth Goodman, Queen, NYQuilts!, Quilts, Fairfield Fashion Show, vendors, lectures, classes! , June 7 & 8, 1997 , Russell Sage College, Troy NY
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 10:22:41 -0500 (EST) | From: KirkColl [at] aol [dot] com
I’m Nancy Kirk at the Kirk Collection in Omaha, NE. Haven’t done a formal introduction, because when a business owner is on a list like this it can seem like advertising; but Kris said everyone wants information too, so here goes.
We deal in antique fabrics — primarily 1850’s to the 1950’s. We focus on quilting cottons, feedsacks and crazy quilt fabrics, but also carry lawn, dimity and batiste for doll costumers, and the occasional piece of upholstery fabric.
We also carry certain reproduction fabrics — we try to focus on the ones that are accurate for both color and surface design. We carry the orginal and the new Harriet Hargrave collections, the DeGama indigoes from South Africa and some of the American Folk and Fabric prints. We’re looking at the Timeless Traditions line and Bev Dunivent’s new Posy fabrics.
We offer natural fiber batting that does not include any polyester or resins in the manufacture. We currently stock Quilters Request cotton, Mountain Mist cotton, wool batts that we have custom made by St. Peters Mill with no additives, black wool batts custom made, and silk batting.
Also needles for quilting in cotton, wool and silk batting.
There are a number of books on quilt history and restoration, software titles and other miscellaneous things in the catalog — which is free — we’re happy to send one to anyone who asks.
In another part of my life, I’m active in the Quilt Restoration Society — we host the conference here in Omaha in September. There is a discount available until March 15 for the conference registration that allows you to save up to $25 (coincidentally the price of your annual membership). We’ll be happy to send the registration information and coupon to anyone on the list. Faculty this year are Barbara Brackman, Terry Thompson, Bets Ramsey, Sara Dillow, Dr. Patricia Cox Crews and Camille Cognac. More information later as the conference gets closer. There will be a pre-conference Quilt Appraisal School and post-conference Fabric Camp. Send a e-mail for details. I think that’s enough for now.
Nancy Kirk , The Kirk Collection, 1513 Military Avenue , Omaha, NE 68111 1-800-398-2542 (U.S. and Canada), (402) 551-0386 Email: KirkColl [at] aol [dot] com FAX (402) 551-0971 Web site: http://www.auntie.com/kirk
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:45:06 -0500 (EST) | From: NSchm007 [at] aol [dot] com
Hello Friends, Did you all know that when you purchase Smithsonian fabrics that you are supposed to receive a label of put on your finished quilt? A local quilting supplies shop owner told me this yesterday. She says that it is supposed to make your quilt more valuable. Do you all feel that just using the Smithsonian collection increases the value? My blood (usually), sweat (especially in summer), and tears (when I have to take it apart to get pieces to match better) is usually enough for me :>) Sara in NC
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:47:43 -0500 (EST) | From: QuiltLine [at] aol [dot] com
Is there anyone out there with any knowledge of what happened to the American Quilt Museum that use to be in Marietta, PA ? Several years ago, when she lived in the area, an acquaintence of mine says she donated some family quilts to the museum. She just came back from a visit there recently, and the museum has apparently moved. I thought someone on the list might know of it – or where it is? Thanks ahead for a reply!
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 22:42:44 -0500 | From: Ricki Maietta
Sadie Rose stated: > My personal preference is not to use “sister prints” (same motif, >different colorways) repeatedly in a project.
Just wanted to point out that I have seen this done in antique quilts! Same fabric in several colorways in the same quilt. Perfect examble was a quilt in our musuem show last summer. Black background with squiggly worm-like shapes in very intense, almost neon colors – about 1890 I think. (These fabrics were reproduced 3 or 4 years ago). The quilt had several color versions of this fabric – one block would be green, the next one pink, the next one purple, etc.
Ricki in PA
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 21:07:28 -0600 | From: LAURA SYLER
Hi..I am Laura Hobby Syler from Richardson, TX. I found this site by way of Nancy Kirk and since Nancy did her intro, I’ll give mine.
I’ve been doing classes, lectures and workshops for about 13 years since I closed the retail version of Texas Quilt Co. at various shops and guilds. Two yeas ago I formally resurected the TQC name and have the only (that we know of) professional quilt restoration business in the north Texas area. If any one knows of anyone else let me know..I’m swamped. Aside from teaching and lecturing, I am also publicist for the Quilter’s Guild of Dallas (Charter Member & past Pres.) and for Dallas Quilt Celebration. I’ll send info on the show later I’ve only been on the list about 24 hours, and it is already helpful.
Thanks Kris!!
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 21:28:48 -0600 | From: LAURA SYLER
>Dallas Quilt Celebration ’97 March 21,22,23> Dallas World Trade Center 2050 Stemmons Freeway, NOTE:location change from last year, 2 blocks south. We will be back at Market Hall in ’98 & ’99.
This is the 16th annual show sponsored by the Quilter’s Guild of Dallas, Inc. It is the largest NOT FOR PROFIT quilt show produced by a non-profit organization and staffed entirely by members and volunteers.
We have just under 400 quilts entered into the judged portion of the show. Judges are Tina Gravatt, Genie Barnes & Judy B. Dales, each of which will be conducting lectures. Tina on “Miniature Quilts”, Genie on “The Worth of a Quilt” & Judy on “Color Me Quilts”.
120 Vendors, a miniature quilt auction on Saturday,& Fashion show.
This years special exhibits include quilts “Made by Kids”, “Quilts To Comfort”(Quilts made for Ronald McDonald and other children’s charities sponsored by QGD)”No White Gloves Needed” – an interactive textile exhibit highlighting antique textiles, “Can this Quilt Be Saved?” and a special area devoted to the Quilt Restoration Society. Lectures on Crazy Quilts,by Cindy Brick, Dating Fabric in Antique Quilts,by Nancy Kirk and How to Be A Quilt Detective by Laura Hobby Syler are just a few of the things going on. There will also be the first session of the Quilt Rescue Squad of the Quilt Heritage Foundation, a resting place for those unwanted quilts, or those loved to death that can become donor parts Genie Barnes will also be conducting appraisals for the guild.
If you want more information, please e-mail me your snail mail and I’ll send you the packet detailing ALL the lectures(including those by Judges Eugenia Barnes, Judy Dales and Tina Gravatt)fees and all the necessary stuff.
Many thanks to our quilting sponsors, Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, Pfaff, That Patchwork Place, Hobbs, P&B Textiles, Bernina, Fairfield Processing corp. just to mention a few.
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 19:56:25 +1000 | From: Sven Olsson
Sven Olsson wrote: > > Dear Kris, > > I have just aquired a 1940 Grandmother’s Fan quilt, partially quilted > and unbound. Possibly African American.
> It is very colourful, gold set with bright multicoloured fans in 9″ > blocks.
> The quilting is very primitive in a fan pattern > I am considering that I could finish it , but I would like a bright blue > feedsack binding.
> About 1/2 the blocks are made of colouful feedsacks.
> The batting is quite thick, and I think it would have been commercially > produced. It is an off white colour, but this may be just > discolouration.
> To the point omy note, Have you any feedsacks in a bright mid blue that > I might purchase?
> > Lorraine Olsson in Australia > > Comments from anyone else please :o)
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 06:36:50 -0500 (EST) | From: Baglady111 [at] aol [dot] com
Welcome, Nancy. I know everyone is going to enjoy ‘reading’ you. By the way, you will be receiving an acid free box from Ann..at Hollinger..gave her your name..as I do with othrs that need questons answered..this is great because now they can contact you because of your posts here on QHL..Jane
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 07:28:39 -0500 (EST) | From: Baglady111 [at] aol [dot] com
Boy! I’m going to follow this as it goes along..please keepus posted on the ‘missing museum’!!! Jane
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 07:59:56 -0500 (EST) | From: Baglady111 [at] aol [dot] com
How much do you need for your binding? The blues I am familar with are what we call surgical blue..like you see on the medical programs on TV..but if you take the plain whtie/off white..you can dye tem tothe exact blue you are looking for..andwe can find you yards and yards of that..I have numerous members who sell feedsacks and I’ll be happy to send you their names/addresses..several can be emailed..post here or email me privately..Jane
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 17:28:47 -0500 (EST) | From: Quiltfix [at] aol [dot] com
Hi y’all.
Just had to tell you the neatest thing. I was at an antique auction two weeks ago. At this auction (which typically has those new, made-in-China quilts) was a pair of the best quilts I’ve ever seen there. Both red and green applique from the depression era, one was tulips and the other was a rose wreath. I liked both, but really wanted the wreath quilt. The colors were faded, but the applique and quilting were magnificent! Perfect. Well, I was due somewhere else, so I left an absentee bid (for those who don’t know, auctions will have a preview of the items for sale. You can go look and leave a bid on the item – I usually leave a range, this time was $50-$100.
Hey, I know this auction and it’s not unreasonable to bid that). Needless to say, I never got that call telling me it was mine. Sob!
Now for the neat part. Last Saturday I was asked if I wanted to buy it still ! It turns out a friend knew I wanted it, so she bid on it to be certain I would get it. It’ll cost me more than I had originally planned, but what a nice thing to do.
She also mentioned, on an aside, that her mom’s quilt is worn through the center on the fold. Well, I told her to bring it with her sometime and I ‘d look at it.
I now have decided, one good turn deserves another!
Alan
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 17:34:22 -0500 (EST) | From: Quiltfix [at] aol [dot] com
I have one suggestion if you must combine old and new reproduction fabrics in a new quilt. Be absolutely certain to label the piece. It wouldn’t be fair to allow future owners to believe their quilt is 60 years older than it is!
I love W&N batting. I’ve started another quilting, and it’s *SO* different from the Heirloom 80/20 (By the way, why do they make the actual fiber content on their packaging so small? After all my fussing, I accidentally bought another batt because it says “Hobbs Heirloom Cotton”. Made me feel as if I’d been taken, even though I returned it.)
Fussing in Florida Alan
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 18:25:55 -0500 (EST) | From: Baglady111 [at] aol [dot] com
which was the bat tht Mimi had such terrible trouble with? Jane
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 21:20:46 -0800 | From: bwblack [at] sprynet [dot] com (Barbara Black)
Does anyone know of any books or published articles regarding Quaker quilting traditions? I have access to most of the issues of Uncoverings, as well as a variety of other books not in my collection, through my guild. Any suggestions or help would be most appreciated. This is a very informative list, and I enjoy it very much.
TIA, Barbara Wunder Black in Ventura, CA bwblack [at] sprynet [dot] com
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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 10:19:15 -0000 | From: “Sue McClure”
I was pleased to discover while rearranging some of my quilting books that I have one that has a great section by Merikay Waldvogel called Collector’s Clues for Dating Quilts. It’s in a book called Quilt With the Best and is a great introduction on dating quilts – good for me since I’m fairly new to all this, and have a lot to learn. I also have her book Soft Covers for Hard Times (which I love), but was pleased to learn I also owned this!
Never know what you’ll find in your collections! Also bought some great books recently about quilt history, one of which is called For Purpose and Pleasure, one section of which deals with the use of quilting as treatments in insane asylums – I’d often heard quilters call their work “therapy”, but never actually heard it used this way! Sue McClure (suzy [at] albany [dot] net)
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 97 21:21:14 PST | From: John & Cinda Cawley
In the Calico and Chintz exhibit at the Renwick there were many very early quilts (pre-1850) using the same fabric in different colorways. The captions explained that fabric printers were doing this as early as 1810.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Cinda in Scranton
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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 14:57:11 -0600 | From: R D
Hi all – I requested interlibrary loans of some of the books that have been listed as a must read on this list.
On Monday the library called and said that “No Time on my Hands” the story of Grace Snyder was in. I finished the 541 pages this morning.
(I think I have gone cross eyed). What a good book!! It was just like reading the Little House on the Prairie books again. She was born in the 1880’s and the book chronicles her life until the 1960’s. Very interesting life, mainly in Nebraska. I wish they would have had more pictures of her award winning quilts in the book. Anyone know of a book that has pictures of her quilts? Funny how she had to churn butter, bake bread, make soap, etc. and she still had time to make these wonderful quilts.
The library called and left a message this morning that another book has come in. Didn’t tell me the name though. Can’t wait!! I’ll pick it up tonight.
Welcome to the board, Nancy! I have been a very happy customer of Nancy’s (Kirk Collection) for maybe 4 years now. Someday I will make it to the shop in person. I really missed you at Paducah last year, Nancy!
The shop looks darling from the picture on your web page.
Donna Holmen in Wisconsin (P.S. Nancy – my little Michael is 2 now. I am also reading books on temper tantrums!) 😛 Reminder – if someone would like a sample piece of Hobbs Wool to try, email me.
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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 16:12:56 -0500 (EST) | From: AJSNGS [at] aol [dot] com
Hi All, I was wondering if someone might explain (again) how you request these books that we all want to read, through our own library. I caught some of the posts that said some of you have done this, but never caught HOW you went about requesting them.
The “No Time On My Hands” sounds like my kind of book. Guess that’s next on my list of “must reads”. I’m currently reading “Legacy; The Story of Talulah Gilbert Bottoms”. Her quilts are exquisite (and there are lots of pictures) but the hardship this woman survived is amazing to me! Sort of humbling to say the least.
Nancy in VA–where it is sunny and 70!
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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 16:33:55 -0500 (EST) | From: AJSNGS [at] aol [dot] com
Hi all, To Donna in Wisconsin, or anyone else that knows, who is the author of “No Time On My Hands”? I’d like to request this book from my library. Is this book on our lending library list? Can’t remember, and can’t get into the list online right now for some reason.
You can e-mail me privately if you know the author.
Thanks, Nancy AJSNGS [at] aol [dot] com
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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 17:19:32 -0500 (EST) | From: Baglady111 [at] aol [dot] com
Lady’s Circile Patchwork Quilt had a fab article/pictures..and I HAVE SLIDES!! All I have to do is FIND THEM!! I think they at my farm in VA..I was so tickled when we found the cemetary they talk of…maybe you can refresh my memory..the tombstone with the photgraph under glass..how was she related to Grace..we found and saw her..Jane
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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 18:55:37 EST | From: debatqps [at] juno [dot] com
Hi, We carry Hobbs and Warm and Natural batts in our shop for two reasons, one they are not sold to mass merchandisers and two, because I really like them. I don’t know why their contents aren’t labeled in larger letters but they have an 800 #, call and make the suggestion. I don’t have it handy or I would post. The batt that Mimi D. had trouble with was the Hobbs Organic Cotton. I do sell that but I tell my customers to prewash it and not to use it in light colored quilts, which is what Hobbs told me when I bought it. I may have bought it after Mimi had the problem with it though. I have found the people at Hobbs to be really helpful each time I have had a question or called with an order.
I have the Organic Cotton in the flannel quilt that is on my bed now and it is wonderful but it is done in a darker tan and plaids. I also love the 80/20 they make. The warm and natural I only like if I am going to machine quilt it, I have a hard time getting tiny stitches with it by hand.
Thats my two cents on battings! VBG Debbie in NJ
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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 20:02:38 -0500 (EST) | From: SadieRose [at] aol [dot] com
For those of you who are fans of the “Aunt Grace’s Scrapbag” fabrics by Judie Rothermel (for Marcus Brothers) – or fans of the ’30’s era scrap quilts, with their multi-colored charm- there is a new book out that you will want to add to your collection!
“Aunt Grace’s Scrapbag Fifth Anniversary” by Judie Rothermel, just published by Schoolhouse Quilt Shoppe, is a celebration of these special reproduction fabrics. The book contains color photos of every fabric printed in the “Aunt Grace’s” line, those out of print, as well as the newest ones.
The book includes a tribute to Judie’s Aunt Grace (yes, she was a real quilter!), and patterns for 14 different quilts especially appropriate for use with the ’30’s type fabrics.
The cover quilt “Aunt Grace’s Dinner Plates” has to be the most unusual “Dresden Plate” quilt I have ever seen! The pattern was taken from a beautiful antique quilt, and Judie has drafted a slightly simplified version for the book. Both pieced and appliqued design are included, and projects include bed quilts, crib quilts and doll quilts. Each quilt is shown in a full color photograph.
“Aunt Grace’s Scrapbag Fifth Anniversary” book can be ordered from: Schoolhouse Quilt Shoppe 2872 Whipple Ave. NW Canton, OH 44708 or you can call them at 330-477-4767 The book is 64 pages, softcover, and sells for $16.95 plus $3.00 shipping & handling.
You might also want to order their fabric samples and catalog. For $7.00, you get 300-350 2″ sample squares of all the fabrics (quilter’s cottons & flannels) that Judie has currently available. You can also mail order yardage of these fabrics, or join their Fat Quarter fabric clubs- there’s even one exclusively for “Aunt Grace’s” collectors. The catalog offers quilt kits, complete with pattern and fabric for many of Judie’s popular designs. Judie and her DH, Bob, own the Schoolhouse Quilt Shoppe, and naturally, they carry each of Judie’s fabric lines for Marcus Brothers. If you are visiting the Canton, OH area, the shop is located in the Whipple/Center Shopping Strip. Happy Quilting!! SadieRose
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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 20:02:34 -0500 (EST) | From: SadieRose [at] aol [dot] com
Here is a “reprint” of my review of NTOMH: << Subj: QHL: Book Review: No Time On My Hands Date: 96-12-22 20:10:06 EST From: SadieRose [at] aol [dot] com
No Time On My Hands, by Grace Snyder, as told to Nellie Snyder Yost This is the autobiography of Grace McCance Snyder, told in a style that will remind you of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s series of Little House books.
Copyright 1963, reprinted in 1986 by the University of Nebraska Press, ISBN # 0-8032-9164-7 I don’t know if this book is currently available, but it is well worth tracking down. Grace tells of her life growing up on the high plains of Nebraska “where, as a child of seven and up, I wished three wishes and dreamed three dreams. I wished that I might grow up to make the most beautiful quilts in the world, to marry a cowboy, and to look down on the top of a cloud. At the time I dreamed those dreams and wished those wishes, it seemed impossible that any of them could ever come true” (but they all did).
Grace’s beautiful petit point style “Flower Basket” quilt is shown in color on the cover of my copy, but the one thing (from a quilter’s point of view) lacking in the book is color photos of more of Grace’s quilts. There are family photos, and a few b&w’s with Grace’s quilts in the background.
Grace tells how she pieced the Flower Basket quilt, based on a design on a china plate, of “triangle shaped pieces so small, that eight of them sewed together made a “block” no larger than a two-cent postage stamp.” It took 16 months to complete. When the quilt was finished, Grace wrote to the china company to see if she could find out who had designed the pattern. The owner of the company was so impressed with the photo of her quilt, he sent her an entire set of the china! Eventually, she was able to correspond with the German man who had designed the basket motif.
Grace was born in 1882, and lived to be 100 years old. What amazing changes occurred over the century she lived. She was one of the quilters interviewed by Molly Newman prior to the writing of the play QUILTERS! and you will recognize some of Grace’s anecdotes in the play! Grace was inducted into the Quilter’s Hall of Fame in 1980.
She started as a child, piecing scraps with leftovers from the family’s clothing, but used her “last dollar to buy enough yard goods to piece a quilt top” to take along when she hired out to teach at a prairie school when she was 18. Later, she married a neighbor, Bert Snyder, the cowboy she dreamed of, and they moved to a ranch in the sand hills of Nebraska. Her, Grace filled lonely hours with raising her family and stitching prize-winning quilts. They owned one of the first autos in the sand hills, bought in 1908.
This is an enjoyable read, filled with the little everyday happenings, as well as the quilts that Grace “pieced in her spare time”.
Hope you find some “spare time” for some stitching during the holidays!!
Karan >>
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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 21:02:07 -0500 (EST) | From: xecord [at] netusa1 [dot] net (Xenia Cord) (by way of Quilting Heritage ListServ )
I’m a Digest subscriber who may switch to active mode. As a quilt historian I wonder about the longterm effects of mixing prints over a 70 year period. I think that even if past quilters had access to voluminous scrap bags, their range would not have been this great. Will we confuse the quilt historians of the future beyond all reason by creating this mix?
(Unless we document these hybred creations, of course.)
Here’s a thought – for those with bunches of scrap but “not enough for a quilt” – why not concentrate on accumulating enough period fabric to do a scrap quilt, or even a charm quilt? I made a queen size Cut Glass Dish using entirely vintage fabric (only the batting is new). Moreover, among the 864 prints there are no repeats. The hunt for fabric itself becomes a challenge, and keeping track of what has been used is even more fun! (Hint: at quilt shows, vendors of antique quilts often also sell single blocks, fabric bits, or yardages.) This quilt is also a hybred of sorts, since it was made in the 1990s of fabric from 1920-40, but it is also documented on the back as such. It was a learning experience in more ways than one!
(On Featherweight Fanatics there is a challenge proposed where FWFs would make a quilt of fabric from the year their machine was manufactured.
– FWF [at] ttsw [dot] com) Xenia Cord, in Indiana Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 21:47:08 -0500 (EST) From: QRestore [at] aol [dot] com To: QHL [at] cuenet [dot] com Subject: Re: QHL: Unidentified subject!
Message-ID: <970227214656_1880230750 [at] emout03 [dot] mail [dot] aol [dot] com> Just a thought on this subject of combining vintage fabrics with reproduction (new) fabrics. . .why would it be any different in 70 years than it is now?
My point, none of us really know for certain how a quiltmaker came by the fabrics in a quilt. . .did he/she use only fabrics available during that era or did they collect (as some of us do today) fabrics from ancestors, neighbors, family, etc? Collecting fabrics, as today, can be a matter of finding clothing, drapery (cottons, linens, silks velvets and the like) etc., it’s not always in the form of fabric just of the bolt.
I agree it will be more difficult to appraise or determine an exact date of a quilt. . .but really, it’s not much different than today. I have a historian friend who feels as you do . . .but when you discuss how quiltmakers of the past may or may not have found their fabrics, no one *really* knows.
Just a thought . . .
Victoria Montgomery QRestore [at] aol [dot] com
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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 97 18:59:49 -0800 | From: beth_novak [at] om [dot] cv [dot] hp [dot] com
Item Subject: cc:Mail Text I’m looking to compare different brands of wool batts, but I have not seen any available in my area. I am just finishing up a mostly wool quilt using old woolen fabrics from the historic Pendleton and Amana woolen mills. A wool batt would be a natural! Any advice?
Beth_Novak [at] om [dot] cv [dot] hp [dot] com
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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 22:56:07 -0500 (EST) | From: Baglady111 [at] aol [dot] com
I’ll bet Addy has done comparisons on wool batts..If she’s in here, she’ll get bck to you..Jane
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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 22:55:09 -0500 (EST) | From: LISA108 [at] delphi [dot] com
Actually, mixing fabrics from various time periods has been done since at lest (least) the 18th century. The 1726 McCord Quilt up in Montreal was precisely dated by the border fabric (made in 1725), but according to the textile curator, the central medallion of the quilt contains some early *17th* century silk scraps. I doubt they were kept specifically as quilt scraps for 100 years, but whoever pieced the McCord Quilt had no qualms about using whatever s/he could get.
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 07:59:16 -0500 (EST) | From: “Kris Driessen, Hickory Hill Antique Quilts”
I talked to RJR last night and they are going to set me up with some of the Posey Quilt reproduction fabrics that are coming out in April and the Smithsonian ones coming out in July. I am excited about this – one of my friends offered to make tops for me so I can have samples to show (I depend on the kindness of others.) I can’t wait to see what they are sending me. It would be just like Christmas if it weren’t for the bill! Oh, wait…that is just like Christmas, isn’t it?
Thanks, Kris
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Date: 28 Feb 97 09:56:25 EST | From: “Patricia L. Lyons” <72134.3643 [at] CompuServe [dot] COM>
All this discussion about Grace McCance Snyder’s No Time On my Hands reopens wonderful memories. My quilt/traveling buddy, Mary Persyn (also a QHLer), and I discovered Grace and her book in the very late 80s. (I believe the book is still available from Quilting Books Unlimited of Batavia IL) It grabbed both of us by the heartstrings. The book is an “as told to” written by Grace’s daughter Nellie Snyder Yost, herself a well respected Nebraska historian. Grace lived, as Karan mentioned, to be 100 years and 6 months old. Her grandson was the pilot who first took her up in a plane. Until she was in her 80s, she flew around the country with her priceless, precious quilts in the seat next to her – yes, she bought a second airline ticket for her quilts!
This woman spanned the history of our country from the homesteading frontier days well into the space age, into the 1980s, a time we all can remember.
When NQA met in Lincoln in 1992, Nebraska sponsored a 500 Mile Long Quilt Show, with towns and guilds all along I80 hanging shows. North Platte’s contribution was a showing of Grace’s quilts still owned by the family, held at Buffalo Bill’s Scout Rest Ranch. We passed our driving time by rereading NTOMH.
The day we arrived there, almost at 5pm, the docent/ranger at the door urged us to get upstairs in the back. Nellie was there that day! We hastened through the house to meet her. Nellie was a very tiny woman, dressed to the nines. For the next – how long? It seemed like forever, but was probably less than an hour – Nellie held forth, answering our questions, volunteering other stories, just generally presiding. What an incredible experience! Nellie made her mother a living person for us.
The Flower Basket quilt, taken from the Salem china pattern, is housed in the State Museum in Lincoln. This was also on display for NQA, housed in a temperature, humidity and light controlled environment. We visited this quilt several times, including one last time on the way out of town. An interesting thing about Grace’s quilts: because of the minute size of her quilt pieces, there are no batts in many of her quilts, the seam allowances serving as the third layer. They are also incredible heavy. I believe the finished size on some of the half-square traingles were 1/4 inch – no, I didn’t mistype, one-fourth of an inch!
A couple of years later eagle-eyed Mary saw an item in Time magazine that Nellie Snyder Yost had died. All the magic of our wondrous afternoon came flooding back.
Grace’s word-pictures of the Sand Hills of Nebraska (for which the sandhill cranes are named) prompted us to explore that wide-open, seemingly empty northwestern part of Nebraska. Later I stumbled across (I’m a librarian and voracious reader) an Atlas of the Sand Hills, and learned that the Sand Hills of Nebraska is one part of the world that humans have improved, rather that degraded, in the past century. The Sand Hills are the largest inland sand sea in the world. It’s hard to believe when you see it now as dryland grazing, carefully rotated to prevent destruction of the ground cover. Whe the McCances moved there, the ground cover was very sparse and the sand was not stabilized.
For once Anonymous was NOT a woman. This is one quilter whose life and quilt have been well documented.
Sorry for the length, but obviously this book, the subject and her quilts, and her daughter/biographer have greatly enhanced my quilt life.
Pat Lyons in gray, but neither raining nor snowing South Bend
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 08:47:45 | From: “MARY PERSYN”
Some of you may remember my note back when we discussed _No Time On My Hands_ and Grace Snyder’s quilts. When NQA was in Lincoln, NB there was an exhibit of GMS’s quilts at the Buffalo Bill Ranch in North Platte, NB. My traveling quilting buddy, Pat Lyons, and I, got to spend an hour with Nellie Snyder Yost, who was “holding court” in one of the upstairs rooms and talking about her mother’s quilts.
The quilts that were on display were the ones that were owned by members of the family. The dishes quilt in in the Nebraska Museum in Lincoln.
Anyway, buried somewhere in my house, are pictures of all of her quilts that were on display! They aren’t good pictures, I’m not much of a photographer and the lighting was not all that great, but they show some detail at least.
Question, if QHL members would like to see my pictures, how could we go about showing them around? (Of course, I’ll have to find them first!) Maybe between Pat and I we could come up with a set of photos for circulation. (Hi, Pat. I volunteered you for something else. Do we have a copyright problem here?)
Any suggestions?
BTW, NQA has a slide/tape presentation that runs about 20 minutes on Grace McCance Snyder. Even though the technology is antique by today’s standards, it is still an interesting presentation. NQA will loan the presentation to NQA chapter members. Our guild showed it several years ago and it received a very warm reception.
Mary Mary G. Persyn mpersyn [at] wesemann [dot] valpo [dot] edu Law Librarian (219) 465-7838 School of Law Library FAX: (219) 465-7917 Valparaiso University Valparaiso, IN 46383
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:50:35 -0600 | From: R D
To request an interlibrary loan, I just went to the information desk in the city library and got a special card to fill out. I had already checked the computer card file, and I knew they didn’t have my books.
It took about a month for me to get the first two books.
Yesterday I picked up the second requested book. It is Kansas Quilts and Quilters. Lots of picures and history. Looks very good. This book came from our state historical society. I am going to call them and see if they can send me a listing of the quilting and textile books that they have available. I will still probably have to go through my local library to get them, but it would be great to see what they might have.
Donna – One of our local high schools is putting on the play The Quilters this weekend. I can’t wait to see it again.
Re: I was wondering if someone might explain (again) how you request these books that we all want to read, through our own library. I caught some of the posts that said some of you have done this, but never caught HOW you went about requesting them.
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 14:57:20 -0500 (EST) | From: Baglady111 [at] aol [dot] com
Oh Pat, what a WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE!! It is a pleasure to read of your experience..I had heard that when her daughter took Grace’s quilts to a showing, the airline allowed the quilts to sit beside the daughter FREE..do you think that the airline knew that Grace had done that..as you posted??
The article was in LCPWQ magazine..I had posted this previously and a member missed it and asked that I post again..so may I join you and add this experience to your thrilling post? I was in Ne to host a a dinner table discussion and before the event I visited the museum..and had the privelge of seeing the very quilt you mentioned..they had it laying on a work table and we were able to inspect i as close as you could possibly get to it without laying on it..SPECTACULAR..after the event, one of my FEEDSACK CLUB members invited me to be her guest between lectures in her state..I was reading the book bout Grace and Linda said, “jane, that cemetary she mentions is not that far from here (Holdrege) would you like to see if we can find it?” The next day we packed a picnic lunch and off we went to a neighboring town..talked the the postmaster and got some directions..sure enough..we found it and the markers mentioned in her book..one of them being the marker with the glassed covered photograph of a family member..and I can’t recall which member..sister? sister in law?? aunt?? cousin?? Maybe you can fill that in for me..Grace is not there..but many family members are..we picniced there, enjoyed the peace and quiet and talked about this remarkable lady and here quilts..born in a soddy, reared in a soddy, married and lived many years in a soddy..
we did a seek and search for her home.but it is bare land and there was nothing there to give us any ideas/clues..as to exactly where her home would ahve been..but all inall..it was a thrill to be there..to see the area..after having seen such a wonderul quilt..when I arrived home I wrote to the museum and acquired slides of ehr quilts, alongwith other masterpieces..for my lecture/slide program on museum quilts..what a treasure she has left for us..thanx for your post..Jane
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 97 14:43:55 PST | From: John & Cinda Cawley
Of the Best Sort but Plain is the catalogue of the Quaker quilt exhibit now at the Brandywine Museum in Chadds Ford, PA. I read it with hi-liter in hand and learned a lot. It has some color and only cost about $9.
Phone the museum (610) 388-2700.
All in Modesty and Plainess by Patricia T. Herr in Quilt Digest 3 discusses 18 & 19 century Quaker quilts.
Quaker sponsorship of quiltmaking by female convicts as an offshoot of their work in prison reforn is discussed on pp. 110-112 of The Quilts of the British Isles by Janet Rae.
Quaker involvement in a self-help program is Wales during the Depression, see pp. 141-145 of Quilt Treasures of Great Britain by Rae, et al.
Fascinating topic.
Cinda in Scranton
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 16:38:02 -0500 (EST) | From: Baglady111 [at] aol [dot] com
We have a receiver..if you are interested in sending you product/brochures to our quilt show/convention down the road from QHC at Lancaster, Pa..PAULA HAMMER OF 5005 Miller Rd., Lilburn, GA, 30247 will accept delivery. Please include your name/address in your shipment. Please check with me and let me know how large your item(s) will be..before shipping to Paula. It has to be in her hands no later than March 22nd..for any questions, please email me..Jane
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 16:38:50 -0500 (EST) | From: Baglady111 [at] aol [dot] com
THE FEEDSACK CLUB has it’s 3rd annual quilt show & convention April 4 & 5, concurrent woth QHC..we have a few spaces left for vendors if interested..email me privately..Jane
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 17:54:22 -0500 (EST) | From: Baglady111 [at] aol [dot] com
I also have a receiver in Pa..and if it is a product/tool that should be demo-ed..and it takes a little time to perfect doing a demo..let me know and I’ll refer you to Joan..Jane
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 19:19:22 -0500 (EST) | From: “Connie Pollard (614) 593-1920” (by way of Quilting Heritage ListServ )
Kris, would you mind posting to the QHL list? For some reason I can’t seem to post to the list.
About wool batts: I agree that quilting with wool is like quilting through butter. It is remarkably resilient, even at the lowest loft. A quilt with a wool batt feels different when it covers you, too–it’s very warm, but it breathes, as well–a strange yet delightful feeling!
Just wanted to mention where I get my wool batts. In a town a little over an hour away from Athens, Ohio, where I work, some people have a mail-order business with wool batts. They have their own sheep. Their batts come in a uniform size, but the thickness varies. When you are ready to use your batt, you stretch it out like pizza dough to the size and loft you want. Most people wouldn’t want to go to the extra trouble, but I like being able to control the loft on my batts. There’s no scrim on these batts, either–another feature I like. The wool is undyed, and natural. They also have dark batts for darker quilts. These people are personable and the service is excellent. The woman who partners the business with her husband quilts beautifully and uses her own batts, of course. I have no affiliation with this company, other than being a very happy and satisfied customer. For information, the snail mail address is Wooly Comforts, Box 2038, Chillicothe, OH 45601. Phone is (614) 775-1916. No e-mail yet, but they hope to have a web site up by summer. Owners are Dave and Nancy Gigley. They do dog and pony shows for groups if your guild is interested.
Connie Pollard cpollard1 [at] ohiou [dot] edu
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 20:01:54 -0500 (EST) | From: Judy Gutowski
Hi all – I signed on a few weeks ago and have been enjoying the discussions and history lessons. I’ve been quilting about 10 years and have recently taken an interest in learning about and acquiring older quilts. I love the 30’s and 40’s quilts and those with bubble gum pink fabrics.
Recently purchased a beauty of a 9-patch top at a guild auction for $30 with lots of pink – all hand pieced. Yesterday, a guild member found me a sunbonnet sue, fully quilted, in perfect condition. I’m getting a collection started!
I have an invitation – our four county guilds are holding a quilt expo March 21 – 21 in Fort Lauderdale, FL at the Radisson Inverrary Resort Hotel,, 3501 Inverrary Blvd. There will be a judged competition, challenge quilt display, miniature auction, demonstrations, workships, merchant mall (about 15), and our own sale room which we call Quiltique.
If you get there ask for me – I’d love to meet you.
As an added bonus, same weekend the American Sewing Guild is holding their convention at the Fort Lauderdale Convention Center. Sewing and quilting – what a weekend.
I just attended the Amish Country Traditions show here in Fort Lauderdale and here is their traveling schedule: 2/28 – 3/1 – Atlanta, GA 3/14 & 3/15 – Costa Mesa, CA 3/21 & 3/22 – Del Mar, CA 5/9 & 5/10 – Denver, CO 5/30 & 5/31 – Albany, NY 7/18 & 7/19 -Chicago, IL 7/25 & 7/26 – St Paul, MN 8/7 – 8/9 – Seattle/Tacoma, WA 8/15 & 8/16 – Portland, OR 10/3 & 10/4 – Atlanta, GA 10/31 & 11/1 -Costa Mesa, CA 11/7 & 8 – Ventura, CA Glad to be a part of this interesting group.
Judy Gutowski quiltnut [at] bc [dot] seflin [dot] org Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 20:43:17 -0500 (EST) | From: Laurajbr [at] aol [dot] com
I have a question about these natural wool batts that Connie wrote about. A long time ago someone gave me a natural wool batt from one of her sheep. I have kept it all these years and never used it because I wasn’t sure how to.
Do you have to put it in muslin before quilting it, as someone once told me I did? Thanks for any suggestions. Laura in Tampa
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 97 21:29:19 +0000 | From: “Bob Mills”
To Barbara in CA: Just returned a few hours ago from the quilt exhibit ‘Quaker Quilts from the Delaware Valley 1760-1890’ held at the Brandywine River Museum, Chads Ford PA.
It was a small, but stunning exhibit. Only well documented quilts were in the exhibit, so it was a historians delight.
The 32 page exhibit catalog, written by Patricia J. Keller is packed full of history of the Quakers and quilters-I have not read it yet.
It cost $8.95. The museum phone # is 610-388-2700. Maybe they would send you a copy.
To Nancy in VA: I can look up books at my small local library in the computer, which lists all books in our county libraries. If the book I want is listed, I can reserve it, no matter what library in the county has it, and it is shipped to me at our local library. They call and tell me it has arrived.
If it is not in our county system, I request a form from the desk clerks, fill out my name, book title and author. The librarians take it from there.
So far, I have ordered and received about 15 books a month, some from far away. They have always been able to find the requested books, and it is free.
Sometimes, I decide to purchase the book after reading it, and have ordered some books through Kris at a great price. Yes, this is a plug for Kris who is doing us a great service. Lately, the librarians have taken to asking me questions about quilting and want me to bring in some to show them. Maybe my friends and I could put on a quilt show there, as thanks.
Print the QHL quilt book list and take it to your library and ask for help.
Jan Drechsler in NJ
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 97 18:33:15 -0800 | From: beth_novak [at] om [dot] cv [dot] hp [dot] com
Item Subject: cc:Mail Text Excuse my ignorant question, but what is the feedsack club?
Hi Judy, My daughter lives in Coral Springs and I was in hope to come back down for the quilt show/needlework expo..but my lecture schedule has me elsewhere..I heard mention of it when I was the the Space Coast Quilters in Titusville last week-end..alot of them are going down for it..wish I could be there..hope you’ll report on it..Jane
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 23:14:56 -0500 (EST) | From: Baglady111 [at] aol [dot] com
No such thing as an ingnorant question..only an ignorant answer..and I am delighted you asked..THE FEEDSACK CLUB is a group of people, mostly quilters who buy, sell, trade, collect, and exhibit feedsacks among themselves..any where from a full sack, a half of one, quarter of one, and various size sqs from 2″ to 18″.we have a convention each year at the same time as QHC..in Lancaster, Pa..and several retreats elsewhere thru the year..we exhibt at places like the Smithsonian, museums, historical societies, schools, universities, anyplace interested, actually..do you know anything about feedsacks? Ever see one? Jane
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Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 00:06:02 -0800 | From: “Arlene G. Goldberg”
Pat, I read the book (couldn’t put it down) and, as everyone says, was only sorry there wasn’t more about Grace’s quilting and quilts in it.
Thank you for writing about the show and Nellie, etc. I’m printing it out and keeping it with the book.
BTW for those looking, I called around to find this book, and one of the chains (Waldenbooks – no affil.) was able to order it for me and it only took two weeks. So yes, it is still in print.
Arlene in Miami arlenegg [at] icanect [dot] net
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Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 00:43:23 -0500 (EST) | From: MiamiQuilt [at] aol [dot] com
to Barbara Wunder Black in Ventura: To answer question on Quaker Quilting, see The New York Times, Sunday, Feb. 2 issue for a great article and newest research being done.
Pam MiamiQuilt @ aol.com
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Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 00:33:52 -0500 (EST) | From: MiamiQuilt [at] aol [dot] com
Congratulations to Tmauvlus on her “Rotten Bones” winning a ribbon at Williamsburg!!!!!!
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 97 22:08:17 -0800 | From: beth_novak [at] om [dot] cv [dot] hp [dot] com
Item Subject: cc:Mail Text I’m new to the list and it would be very helpful if people would put their e-mail address below their message. The only address that’s getting through to me is the cuenet address, not your personal one. I am a member of another listserv group and that’s how that group does it. It’s easy to make up a draft with the QHL address and your personal address in the text portion. Then when you send a message to the group you can open the draft each time and that info is there.
Just make sure not to delete or save changes to your draft each time you post.
I would like to have answered several nice people who responded to my inquiries but all I have is your first names!
Thanks, Beth Beth_Novak
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Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 11:20:42 +0400 | From: xecord [at] netusa1 [dot] net (Xenia Cord)
Someone from QuiltAlive [at] aol [dot] com posted to me 3/1 that Terry Thompson’s apartment burned or was severely damaged by smoke/water the night of 2/27.
The store below her apartment burned, along with others in the same historic block in Lawrence, KS, and Terry (although she escaped without injury) lost her 3 cats, all of her quilts, vintange garments, and vintage fabric. That was the initial report – when access to the building is allowed, perhaps she will have less devastating news. At present she is staying with her daughter.
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