Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 11:01:39 -0500 | From: “anne” Xenia, is there any information on buyer of this amazing quilt? Private collector or -hoping- a musem? AnneD Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 11:29:55 EST | From: Midnitelaptop QuiltersBeecuenet.com, quiltopialyris.planetpatchwork.com, i plan on making a small adjustment to the…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 10:21:54 +0200 | From: Ady Hirsch <adamroni@> >From: Ady Hirsch <adamroni@> > Subject: Re: Xenia at the National Now for the quilts. The other special exhibit at the National Gallery is called “Drawing on America’s Past: Folk Art, Modernism and the Index of American…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 04:58:10 | From: “Anne Copeland” <anneappraiser@> Wasn’t there a quilt recently with the initials WSC on it that peoplewereasking about? WSC was Western Sanitary Commission, which was abranch ofthe Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. Organized to helpcreatebetter sanitary conditions in the Northern war…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:58:51 -0500 | From: “Cinda Cawley” <lrcawley@> Mindy, Treasures in the Trunk: Quilts of the Oregon Trail by Mary Bywater Cross is the place to start. Cinda on the Eastern Shore Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 18:57:48 -0900 | From: “Gloria Hanrahan” <gloria@> I…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 20:25:24 -0500 | From: “Cinda Cawley” <lrcawley@> Joe Cunningham, on Simply Quilts this afternoon, said that the Amish stopped using wool in their quilts at the beginning of WWII when it became impossible to get on the civilian market since wool was being used…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 00:31:09 -0600 | From: Becky Sunderman <sewcarve@> I have been reading the comments about quilts being sold oneBay with interest, as I am auctioning some of my quilts therenow, and have had some up for auction that did not sell in thelast month. They…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:24:05 -0500 | From: “Cinda Cawley” I was giving a talk to a quilt guild near Ocean City, MD today and a woman showed me something I’d never seen before. From a distance it looked like an indigo and white Lady of the Lake…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 23:22:48 EST | From: [from unknown] Hi all; I need a quilt appraiser or textile conservator in the Lancaster, PA area. Any ideas? Thanks, Darwin Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 08:39:10 EST | From: [from unknown] i think lynn hit the “nail on the…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 21:16:11 -0600 | From: Mary Waller <mswaller@> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:54:56 -0500 | From: “Judy Kelius (judysue)” <judysue@> I think the group decided a long time ago that this quilt is authentic. It just happens to be in wonderful condition. One of…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 04:00:45 +0000 | From: “Karen Bush” <karenbush11@> I was quilting for a customer at the time. It was a flag quilt, and startedthe weekend before. …On 9-ll, I looked at the quilting design andtherejust wasn’t enough. Through part of that week, I un-quilted andre=quiltedit….