September 26 – 30, 2004
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Primary topics of this QHL Digest:
- Dating a Centennial-Era Print Fabric — Members work to date a fabric print featuring the 1885 Puritan-Genesta yacht race, part of a wider look at politically and historically themed prints. (see the article on Centennial prints)
- What Makes a Quilt “Museum Quality”? — Curators and collectors debate what standard should determine whether a quilt belongs in a museum collection. (see the article on quilt museums)
- A New Fundraising Quilt for the Alliance — The Alliance for American Quilts announces a quilt made by Karen Musgrave and Yvonne Porcella to benefit the organization.
- Cheering Section for the AQSG Seminar in Vancouver — Members banter about pom-poms and double-pink fabric while planning to meet up at the upcoming AQSG Seminar.
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 14:02:18 -0700 | From: “Alan R. Kelchner” <alan@>
Charlotte Bull wrote:
>Hi Alan. Welcome! Some good comments! >Also, Many Thanks to Don, Anne, Pat, Kim, Kris & others! >
<chuckle> Well, uhhh, thanks ! Though I think I oughta come out and play more often. I’ve been on the list forever. Just more of a lurker at the moment as my interests morph around on me.
Alan
– Alan R. Kelchner Textile Artist http://www.alankelchner.com
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 18:38:10 -0700 | From: “Newbie Richardson” <pastcrafts@>
Ok, here goes..As a textile conservator and museum proffessional for over 25 years( and an avid observer of textiles since I was old enough to be taken to auctions and was pushed through the Paris flea market every week-end starting at age 6 months…) I have seen a LOT of textiles. Dear God, there is so much out there. It is NOT a sacriledge to quilt an old top, reuse older fabrics, salvage the good parts from textiles that have “gone” etc. Old Textiles are like Old People – their condition varies by the individual situation! Use your common sense – (or ask someone who has some) before you decide to alter/use an existing old piece. Chances that you are forever harming an “icon” is so remote as to not really be a factor. Just remember, Mr. DuPont and Mrs. Montgomery used lots of whole cloth quilts and 18th century silk dresses as sources for the reupholstery of the furnishings at Winterthur…I trust no one on this list will be doing that! My mentor, a fabulously wise and knowledgable historian of decorative arts, gave me very good advice when I was debating investing REAL money in a brand newly designed, custom made, contemporary, rocking chair rather than buying an antique one. “Just remember, good design will be forever, whether old or new – and crap is still crap even when it is over 100 years old!” IMHO Newbie Richardson
From: “kathy moore”
I am doing research on quilts with political messages and came upon a question I can only partially answer. My question is: What needlework pieces do we know of that clearly were created to express political sentiment or to memorialize important national events?20
I can think of the Bayeaux Tapestry, possibly the Tristan and Isolde piece, maybe heraldic tapestries and rugs, flags of many nations, and I’ve found many American quilts of this genre, quite a few which include commemorative fabrics and photo transfers.
Can any of you resourceful and well-informed people think of other pieces in this category?
Thanks for any help with information and sources.
Kathy Moore Lincoln, NE
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 18:55:01 -0400 | From: “Beth Davis” <bethdan533@>
The more that I read about this thread, the more confused I get. I guess that I do realize that it is OK to change your views and even more so, to actually admit that you have. When I first became a quilter, I was strictly a hand quilter…with the attitude that any machine quilted item was sub-par…Well guess what…20 odd years later, I have a long arm machine in my basement and find that I have to search for hand needles in the house. Granted, the LA machine doesn’t get used as much as I would like-but I continue to look to master the skill involved. I actually seek out the machine-quilted quilts, in shows & museums (how exciting it is to see a machine quilted quilt from the late 1800’s and there is a great example at the museum I volunteer at!!)
I recently was asked to look over a collection of quilts owned by a local couple, who collected them mostly in the 1980’s. Now they have some really wonderful quilts, some as early as mid 1800’s. Then they also have some quilts that they purchased as tops, and then gave to a quilter who enlarged the quilt tops to a useable size with (gasp!!) 1980 chain store fabrics before quilting them. I didn’t want to discourage them, so didn’t give any opinion on them. Actually, I was more concerned that I had to tell them that two of the quilts they were so excited about were actually imported quilts, not the 1930’s era originals they thought they were. But then, these quilt tops are theirs to do with as they wish—and who is to say that they haven’t rescued tops that could have otherwise ended up thrown away. The quilts are in marvelous shape-and overlooking the cheap border fabrics, they are truly wonderful!
But back to the confusion… I worry, as we are often asked our opinion on issues such as what should or shouldn’t be done to the quilts…I hate to think that I am giving bad advice to anyone.
Beth Davis Rush, NY
From: Xenia Cord
Kathy, what about centennial wool jacquard coverlets, and those memorializing the centennials of various of G. Washington’s notable events? There are also toiles, particularly “The Apotheosis of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington,” (English, ca. 1785). There was a toile of the temporary arch in Madison Square celebrating Dewey’s victory in Manilla Bay (1891), and there was a children’s cheater print that featured (although very minutely) the America’s cup race between the Puritan and the Genesta (1995).
And there are any number of quilts celebrating events in war and major victories, many of the Baltimore Album quilts, for instance. I don’t know if you would want to include wars as “political events” – and this is dangerous territory today!
And there are the quilt patterns with supposedly political or commemorative titles – although the dates of these names are in doubt. There were quilts made to celebrate the centennial of the Statue of Liberty, and the Bicentennial, and any number of fabrics were printed for the centennial in Philadelphia in 1876.
There are some good references out there: Herbert Collins, Threads of History; Bishop and Houck, All Flags Flying; Landerhorwitz, The Bird, the Banner & Uncle Sam; Fox, Wrapped in Glory; Benson and Olsen, The Power of Cloth, Political Quilts 1845-1986; Atkins, Discover America; Affleck and Hudon, Celebration and Remembrance, Commemorative Textiles in America 1780-1990; and Julie Powell’s volume on political quilts (can’t lay my hands on it at the moment, but someone will know the title) and Katy Christopherson’s earlier work on the same subject; Bresenhan, America from the Heart.
Not an exhaustive list, but a good beginning… Xenia
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 18:29:49 -0600 | From: Xenia Cord <xenia@>
…I mis-typed; the race between the Puritan and the Genesta was in 1885. Sorry!
Xenia
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 10:52:26 -0600 | From: “Vernon Farms” <vernonfarmshubwest.com>
Hi there,
I’m a lurker and have enjoyed the discussions on machine quilting older quilts. One question has come to my mind: Whether I machine quilt or hand quilt an older top the thread I use will still be 100% cotton, so what would it matter which method I used?
Just curious.
Su Vernon
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 21:37:07 -0400 | From: Patricia L Cummings <quiltersmuse@>
Kathy: Don’t forget: /On the Cutting Edge: Textile Collectors, Collections, and Traditions/ by Jeannette Lasansky.
Pat
From: “Candace Perry” <candace@>
Hmmm…museum quality. I’ve thought about this a lot lately as I add quilts to our collection. You’ve got to consider what sort of museum you’re referring to…and an art museum is obviously going to have far different criteria than a history museum. It is vital that objects we acquire fit our scope of collections. My priorities have maker/location of origin at the very top of the list. Then condition, for exhibition purposes. Age, then, and possibly some aesthetic concerns…age can trump condition, always — crummy pre 1830 patchwork over yet another ca. 1890 log cabin?…but as a history museum nothing is higher priority than the maker/location. I’d have to send a late 19th century Amish quilt, for example, to my friends in Lancaster, as it would not fit our scope. Not that I’d ever get one…but one never knows, do one? Candace Perry Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center
From: “Julia D. Zgliniec” <rzglini1@>
Good Morning Again I have to chuckle here. I have a collector/ naturalist friend who has a beautifully polished coprolite paper weight. It really is beautiful in a rocky sort of way. But it is still dino dung! Julia Zgliniec
Newbie Richardson wrote:
> old or new – and crap is still crap even when it is over 100 years old!” > IMHO
From: “Julia D. Zgliniec” <rzglini1@>
Good Morning All, Julie Powell’s book is The Fabric of Persuasion Twoo Hundred Years of Political Quilts.
Julia Zgliniec
From: “Teddy Pruett” <aprayzer@>
<<…I mis-typed; the race between the Puritan and the Genesta was in 1885. Sorry!
Xenia>>
Oh, Dear, Xenia, I am so glad you cleared that up ——I, for one, would most likely have been informationally challenged for the remainder of my life had I not know the correct date……
Ha ha ha, you-all, didn’t mean to sound sarcastic. I’m glad she was quick enough to thwart the deluge of letters from those who knew that actual date of the race. “Racing,” here in Florida, has begun to mean the speed at which you can prepare for yet another hurricane. Jeanne visited us here last night, and we are none the worse for wear and tear, but I could sure use some of you down here to pick up limbs and tree hash. Many people never took the boards and guards down from Frances. Teddy, reporting from Florida, “The Plywood State”
From: AndreaBlackhurst@
I have an old (not THAT old, 40’s, nice, in a “homey” way) butterfly applique quilt top that’s been living in a box since my DH bought it at an auction. After reading the posts I’ve decided to find it, hand quilt it, and use it in the room I have set aside for my new granddaughter. I’m sure the maker intended it to be finished and enjoyed. I plan to do just that. If I don’t, it’s sure to get tossed when my time is up.
Whoever started this thread, THANK YOU, I had forgotten all about that top.
Andrea
From: “Newbie Richardson” <pastcrafts@>
The difference between hand quilting and machine quilting with 100% cotton thread is the amount of mechanical action: the stress, tension, abrasion and just plain manipulation the quilt receives. These factors can be minimized or controled when quilting by hand. Not so when using a machine – no matter how skillful the machine operator. The machine dictates how you manupulate the piece. The same is true for a machine used to sew garments. Many is the time I wished that I could use a sewing machine to repair seams on antique and vintage clothing – but have realized that the wadding, twisting, and pulling necessary to get the piece under the foot would be far too stressful on the fabric. Old fabrics loose their structual integrity – just like old skin loses it’s elasticity – and as far as I know, there is no “collagen treatments” for fabrics – at least not yet! So it is not the stitch ( although I do think that a lock stitch exerts more pressure than a running stitch) it is the amount of manipulation the quilt top requires in the machine. That same principle extends to wet cleaning or dry cleaning – it is not the solvents – it is the manipulation – that causes the damage most of the time. Once again think of old skin – at 51 I no longer use the scrubbing beads that my girls do to clean my face. I use a soft baby washcloth. So when in doubt, ask yourself if you would subject your grandmother’s skin to the treatment you are contemplating for your quilt? Newbie Richardson
From: <gingram@>
> > From: “Teddy Pruett” <aprayzer@> > Date: 2004/09/27 Mon AM 09:28:28 CDT > To: “Quilt History List” <qhl@> > Subject: [qhl] Correct info, by all means…… > >Teddy, you put so perfectly what was in all our minds, I suspect. Wouldn’t it have been awful to have been in a conversation and have confused those two vessels?! I simply tremble at the thought.
Glad to know you made it through the hurricanes—so far. Think of it: maybe Xenia did the right thing in preventing your closer view of that tornado this summer. Otherwise, the winds of fall would not have been nearly so spectacular.
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:07:53 -0400 | From: munsey@
Kathy: There is one “message” quilt which struck me at the Shelburne Museum exhibit last year. The familiar quilt is two-sided. The exhibit catalog, Art of the Needle, pg. 92, show the Centennial Exhibition Quilt, acquisition no. 10-48, and shows a close up on the next page of part of the equally familiar back which is a dramatic star and diamond design. One has to go to the older Shelburne books to see, with difficulty, the “political statement.” (55 Famous Quilts from the Shelburne Museum, Celia Oliver, Dover Books, 1990, pp 10 and 11, or Shelburne Museum: The Quilt, Kei Kobayashi, ed., Gakken 1985, plates 34 and 35) On the “star” side of the quilt where the cutouts were filled in (right hand corner), there is a cheater cloth print with a feminist (birth control?) picture alternated by a faux patchwork square. A woman is in bed, facing away from a man seated in bed holding a calendar. There is a grandfather clock beyond the bed. I don’t remember to what hour it points, but I believe it is an appropriate night time hour. (I was unsuccessful in getting a clear close up photo when I was at the exhibit.) The fill-in fabric on the left corner is a cheater crazy quilt patch, depicting sailboats, ewers, flags, a hiker, etc. The fill-in fabric on the commemorative print side of the quilt match and has a patriotic theme. The person who altered the quilt seemed to have something specific to say – at least to me. And where did that fabric come from!? Sandra on Cape Cod
From: <chrisa@>
Hi Sandra,
Your take on the fabric with the clock was great, making me wonder if you are of childbearing age 🙂 Here’s the info Florence Peto gave about this print- she said the print represents a game that was popular at the time. The man is looking at the game, not a colander. The game is also printed in the faux patchwork surrounding it, which is called yankee puzzle by design, but perhaps this is also referring to the game. This is not known by Peto. It has 15 cubes, all numbered and 15 spaces. The goal is to arrange the cubes in order without lifting a block up to do so. The man is so taken with the game he plays it into the night, long after his wife has gone to sleep. Peto refers to the Index of American Prints, Art Service Project, WPA. She dates it around 1879. She says American printers didn’t mark their fabrics, nor were they big on saving sample books (although we know now that some did, especially those mills in Lowell, Mass), so an exact date and manf. is not known.
Kim Wulfert www.antiquequiltdating.com
(55 Famous Quilts from the Shelburne Museum, Celia Oliver, Dover Books, 1990, pp 10 and 11, or Shelburne Museum: The Quilt, Kei Kobayashi, ed., Gakken 1985, plates 34 and 35) On the “star” side of the quilt where the cutouts were filled in (right hand corner), there is a cheater cloth print with a feminist (birth control?) picture alternated by a faux patchwork square. A woman is in bed, facing away from a man seated in bed holding a calendar. There is a grandfather clock beyond the bed. I don’t remember to what hour it points, but I believe it is an appropriate night time hour. (I was unsuccessful in getting a clear close up photo when I was at the exhibit And where did that fabric come from!? Sandra on Cape Cod
Date: Mon, 27 Sep | From: <chrisa@>
RE the Centennial quilt fabric print: I checked the on-line source for the Index to American Designs to see if this print were in there. I couldn’t find it, but I didn’t search for too long since there isn’t much to go on to use the search box. I did put in quilts, and didn’t find it.
The cube game had 16 spaces, not 15, for 15 cubes. I meant calendar not colander.
Kim Wulfert www.antiquequiltdating.com
Date: Mon, 27 Sep | From: alan@
Quoting “Julia D. Zgliniec” <rzglini1@>:
> Good Morning Again > I have to chuckle here. I have a collector/ naturalist friend who has a > beautifully polished coprolite paper weight. It really is beautiful in a > rocky sort of way. > But it is still dino dung
Puts me in mind of a show I watched on TV over the weekend, describing how silk is made. I was dying over the line “…so the next time you’re wearing that piece of dried caterpillar spit ….”
Alan
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:24:27 -0700 | From: Anne Copeland <anneappraiser1@>
I loved your post, Kathy! (Actually a lot of people made some really nice posts in this digest.)
Back in 1995, a friend and I started a quilt history study group called Repiecers of the Past. Believe it or not, it is still going, though taken over by some friends who live to the south of us and renamed. After we started our group, we had an idea that it would be really wonderful to create a small quilt museum called “The Everywoman’s Quilt Museum.” Our idea was that we would gather kitchenware such as plates and towels and kitchen curtains, etc. and other household items that were designed in the 20s, 30s and 40s and put them next to everyday quilts that were either inspired from the items or vice versa. We both loved a quilt that was made based on one of those 30s plate designs that look like some kind of needlework or another that was based on the design on a box of chocolates. We thought it would be great fun to just have everyday items that people could just enjoy, and perhaps even touch in some cases.
I once rescued a quilt I found in a shop in Paduccah that was in such bad shape, it was in the $5 cutter basket on the floor. I took it home, lovingly cleaned it, and took it to shows where I was doing appraisals. I put it on the table and allowed people at the show to look at it closely and even touch it. I still remember how almost everyone who came by enjoyed that quilt. Women would come up and say how they remembered this or that the quilt reminded them of, and how wonderful it was. The quilt had been made by a family in Kentucky, and it was embroidered not only with the name of the maker and the date, but the location. There was no way the quilt could be repaired or restored. There was just way too much work to do on it. But over the years I think the maker would have felt proud to have her work or the work of the family so admired and enjoyed. It was interestingly enough not well pieced or quilted, but the embroidery on it was wonderful. And the stories those blocks could tell! Over the years, that quilt developed a life all of its own, and some wonderful stories that were my theories that were much enjoyed by everyone.
Eventually a friend came along who begged to have that quilt to the point where I had to pass it on to her, knowing she would treat it with as much love and respect as I think I had. I can still imagine the lady who made that quilt sitting quitely someplace up there smiling with all her good memories of her quilt.
It’s wonderful to go into a big museum that has really wonderful (beautiful and interesting) quilts, but there is also a place for the everyday quilt in this world. The everyday quilts I have come across over the years have often been looked at by others (some quilters, some nonquilters) with fascination, admiration, and overall interest.
It doesn’t seem to matter whether the quilt is in perfect shape or poor shape–there is always something that people somewhere find interesting. Isn’t it a nice thought that even the poorest quilts and tops get to be so admired? Peace and blessings, Annie
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:31:00 -0700 | From: Anne Copeland <anneappraiser1@>
Sometimes when a family wants to repair or finish a quilt that was started by someone in his/her family, I often think of it as the generations being linked when each person adds some part to the whole. That has always been a very soothing thought to me. I have some things my grandma and my mom made, and both of them are gone now. I always feel very connected to them every time I need to make a mend to something that they worked on. It is as though we are still somehow altogether in the same time and space. That’s just my own feelings about families and the quilts of those who have gone before. Of course I always encourage the people to take their time, do a lot of research about quilting patterns that were used in their families and to use proper materials, etc. I also encourage them to document their quilts and make photo transfers to put on the backs as labels or in a cloth envelope that is attached to the back. Peace and blessings, Annie
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:19:05 -0400 | From: munsey@
Kim – Very interesting about the old game print. That has me curious about the game. It’s not one I remember from the many games at my grandmother’s. And, no, neither I nor my three companions visiting Shelburne are of childbearing age – we are in the grandmothering age. Of course, there are almost 20 children and grandchildren among us collectively. 🙂 Do you have the Peto reference? Thanks. Sandra
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:41:47 -0400 | From: Bob Shaw <shaw.bob@>
Dear Friends:
Here is information about a beautiful new quilt made by Karen Musgrave
and Yvonne Porcella to support the work of The Alliance for American Quilts. You can see a photo of he quilt at www.centerforthequilt.org/raffle/
It’s a beauty, so take a chance and save quilt history!
Take a Chance and Save Quilt History with 93The Voice of You and Me 2004
(Louisville, KY, September 28, 2004)Well-known quilt artists Yvonne
Porcella and Karen Musgrave have collaborated on the quilt 93The Voice
of You and Me 2004, to support the work of The Alliance for American
Quilts.The Alliance for American Quilts, a nonprofit organization, uniquely joins people who love, study, collect, and make quilts to ensure that our nations great quilt heritage is documented, preserved
and, most importantly, shared at the Center for the Quilt Online, www.centerforthequilt.org.
This second in the series of quilts titled 93The Voice of You and Me is a real departure for art quilters Porcella and Musgrave, both of whom are Alliance board members. Instead of a modern-looking art quilt, the
two created a naEFve rendition of a Baltimore Album-style quilt, made
with 1850s reproduction fabrics provided by P & B Textiles and batting
provided by Hobbs Bonded Fibers.The quilting on the 70″ x 60″ quilt
was donated by Nancy Brieschke of Cedar House Quilting in Sandwich, Illinois.Tickets are $5.00. The drawing for the quilt will be held in
Louisville, Kentucky on May 18, 2005 at the Garner-Furnish Studio.
93This quilt is my connection to the past so I can support the present,
as I create for the future, because I know that quilts matter, said
Karen Musgrave, of Naperville, Illinois. Yvonne Porcella, of Modesto, California said, 93This quilt gives the feeling of hearts and hands and
home. The feeling is one of reminiscing about antique quilts and those
anonymous women who made unusual pictures. These are the women we will
never meet but they give us a warm feeling, and we love the sense of style they offer with their handwork.
A pattern for one of the quilts blocks is available to members of The
Alliance. For information on membership, to purchase tickets and to learn more about The Alliance for American Quilts, visit the Center for
the Quilt Online, www.centerforthequilt.org or contact The Alliance (502/897-3819, quiltalliance@).
The Center for the Quilt Onlineshares incredible, FREEresources with everyone who cares about quilts. At the Center for the Quilt Online, you can find:
Quilt QueryExperts from our incredible boardincluding Marsha MacDowell, Penny McMorris, Yvonne Porcella, Julie Silber, Merikay Waldvogel, Janice Wass, and Shelly Zegartwill answer your questions
about quilts, including care, display, history, restoration, and evaluation.
Quilters S.O.S. 96 Save Our StoriesThe Alliances extensive oral history project, with hundreds of in-depth interviews with quiltmakers across the U.S.
Quilt TreasuresDocumentary web portraits of key figures in the great 20th century Quilt Revivalincluding Virginia Avery, Cuesta Benberry, Jinny Beyer, Jean Ray Laury, Bonnie Leman, and Yvonne Porcella.
The Quilt IndexA growing digital reference library, with searchable information and photographs of more than 1,300 historic and
contemporary quilts.
Boxes Under the Bed99A national project to ensure the preservation of historic quilt-related materials, such as patterns, letters, and clippings from publications.
Special FeaturesFilm clips from 93The Quilts of Gees Bend, 93Hearts and Hands, and 93Quilts in Womens Lives.
H-QuiltsThe lively internet discussion forum.
The Alliance for American Quilts, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, implements its projects in partnership with institutions and organizations nationally, including three regional centers the Center
for American Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware, the Great Lakes Quilt Center at the Michigan State University Museum, and the Center for American History at the University of Texas. Other Alliance partners include the Library of Congress American Folklife Center, and MATRIX – The Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online.
For more information contact:
Robert Shaw, Executive Director The Alliance for American Quilts (502) 897-3819 (telephone and fax) quiltalliance@
From: Joan Kiplinger
I have just sent this to the VF list so my apologies to some of you for duplication here. I am posting this for a collector of UK wood and copper stamps and fabric labels (aka Shipper’s Tickets] who has just moved from Manchester UK to Princeton NJ. He is looking for American collectors to compare manufacturers and styles. If you or someone you know is such a collector, please contact me privately. That includes anyone from UK who may have items of interest to him.
From: ZegrtQuilt@
Go to The Alliance website home page _www.centerforthequilt.org_ (http://www.centerforthequilt.org/) and hit the webblog button for a unique experience as you become a part of Alliance board member Karen Musgrave’s quilting experiencs in the country of Georgia,ex Soviet Union, as she teaches quilt making, documents Georgian quilts, and visits homes and museums . Learn how the women are so excited about quiltmaking even though they have to ration the use of a very few machines. Have a chance to ask questions about life there . See how long Karen’s stash of fabric that she brought for them can last and how many projects they can all create together.. Ask Karen how this project came to be. This is her second trip in the past year. She has another trip planned for February and will curate an exhibition there of Gee’s Bend Quilts .Log on and join in on this first ever quiltblog from a country that was in the former Soviet Union.
Shelly Zegart Alliance President
From: “Newbie Richardson”
Dear list I just got back from doing some business at the DAR Museum in Washington DC and while there got a sneak peak at the upcoming quilt and sampler show during installation. The exhibit opens opens on Oct. 7th and runs through early Winter ( I think). The quilts that are up are absolute stunners..took my breath away – and I have seen all them at various times as Nancy would flap them over the years at workshops, etc. But to see them well lit and mounted is almost orgasmic, ok, maybe…no, it IS! So are the samplers, by the way. What a collection! So, I can offer 2 beds and 2 mattresses on the floor. (Warning, I do have a German Shepherd and two very pampered cats) I can pick up at the train station (or the Regan National airport) – and I live on a metro line. It would be wonderful if we could all show up for a QHL day at the DAR. Alden is doing curator lead tours for Quilt guilds – doesn’ that describe this group? Who else on the list is in the Metro area and could offer a bed or two? If that idea does not pan out, the offer of bed and borad still stands for whenever you can come. Please email me privately. Newbie Richardson pastcrafts@
Ask Cinda how many miles she has on her car, too.
Hazel, who asked.
From: “Lucinda Cawley” <lrcawley@>
Who is going to be in Vancouver next week for the AQSG Seminar? I’m planning to distribute double pink and Lancaster blue pompoms for use by the cheerlearders during my presentation. (VBG) Have you noticed the proximity of Vancouver to Mount St. Helens? Pretty exciting! Cinda on the Eastern Shore
From: “J. G. Row” <JudyGrow@>
Cinda,
If you really mean it, I’ll take two pom poms and lead the cheers. I just can’t/won’t do one of those jumping splits. Sorry.
Judy, aka the Ringoes Kid
From: KareQuilt@
Save some pom-poms for me too, Cinda! I can’t wait to hear your presentation and read the paper after being fortunate enough to see your quilts up front and personal all those years via the Fairfax Fabric Dating club. (How I miss all of you even though I love where I now live!) And I can’t wait to see everyone from all across the country again! We had such a fantastic time in Dallas last year and I know we will again this year! Let’s just hope that poor young man doesn’t get trapped in the elevator with all of us again!!!
Karen in the San Juan Islands
From: “Chris and Carol Gebel” <gebeljps.net> Date
Cinda – I will be in Vancouver and would love to wave double pink and Lancaster blue pompoms for you, especially if they are made of fabric and we can keep them. Actually, I’ll wave them even if I have to give them back!
This will be my 4th seminar – know I will love it.
From: Barb Garrett <bgarrett421@>
Oh, Cinda, my favorite colors — double pink and double blue. Add 2 pom-poms for me and 2 for my friend from Gig Harbor who is attending her first conference because it’s so close to home — and her favorite types of quilts are PA German and Red and Green Applique — and I’ve told her all about you so she will be a good cheerleader.
Barb in southeastern PA
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 | From: Hazelmacc@
I will be there and will cheer you on!…..Hazel
From: “Ilene Brown”
Hi, I want to tell all of you about a visit my guild received from one of our beloved members. Lynn Gorges was the guest speaker last Saturday here in Raleigh, NC for the North Carolina Quilters Guild. She spoke on “Signature Quilts”. And of course, she had several examples to show. After the program, I just had to go up to her and introduce myself. She is a gracious, down to earth person. I talked to her about quilt restoration of which I am interested and she wants to come back and teach a workshop on that subject. I went right up to our President and Progam Chairman after the Show and Tell and requested this workshop for in the future. Lynn, if you read this, as I was leaving the officers of NCQ were discussing my suggestion. So we will keep our fingers crossed. And thank you, again, Lynn for gracing us with your presence.
Ilene Brown
From: Patricia L Cummings
Dear Ilene:
Thank you for telling us about Lynn’s program. I know that I feel very close to the members of QHL, even though I’ve never met and probably will never meet most of them. However, I revel in their accomplishments. It’s always nice to hear good feedback about people one likes and respects. We have some great talent on this list.
Have a terrific Friday. Thanks for sharing!!!!!
Best,
Pat Cummings
From: “Brenda & Roger Applegate”
Is there any chance that the DAR Museum is open on Sunday’s? I was there over the weekend (but didn’t get to see any quilts). There is a Luncheon Lecture at the Belair Mansion in Bowie Maryland on November 1st. Two of us will be traveling from Western Pa. to attend this lecture.
The topics covered at the lecture are “Holidays at Belair”, “Bustles, Bloomers and Naked Elbow – Fads and Fashion in the 19th century”, “A look at Riding Habits”,The Bride May wear a Gown of Blue” and “Vested Interests: Opulent Men’s Clothing”. Alden O”Brian is presenting the wedding gown topic.
I am not affiliated with the Belair site. I do not see a phone number on our application form, but the address is 12207 Tulip Grove Drive, Bowie MD 20715. The cost of the workshop is $55 for non-members.
Brenda
From: “Lucinda Cawley”
The DAR Museum is not open on Sunday. Cinda on the Eastern Shore
Date: Fri, 1 | From: “Jean Carlton” <jeancarlton@>
Cinda, I’ll be there – and look forward to meeting you and many others that I know only via this list! Bring your name tags! Jean Carlton Minnesota
From: “Newbie Richardson”
Brenda, The Belair Mansion exhibit is MY baby! In fact I just finished mounting the most DIVINE mid 18th c red wool gentlman’s sleeved waist coat!!!! And my Partner, collee Callahan just finished mounting a fabulous mid 18th c silk robe and petticoat. The exhibit – and accompanying symposium on the 1st of Nov – features the incredible collection of historic clothing collected by Mary Doering, adjunct professor of decorative arts at the Smithsonian Masters program. The special treat is the collection of side saddle outfits we are displaying in the stables. Do be sure to come. The DAR is not open on Sundays – sorry….they used to closed on Saturdays and open on Sunday, but switched at public request. However, if you can stay over on Monday night, the museum is open on Tuesday, Nov. 2nd. Newbie Richardson
From: “Candace Perry”
Hey, just wanted to do a plug for Belair site (re: Brenda’s post) since it has highly significant horse racing history (a little non-quilty leftover from one of my past lives)…terribly interesting place… Candace Perry (who harbors an affection for things equine and tiny men in bright clothing)
