Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 10:01:11 +0100 | From: Kathy Prochnow <mskathyp-pub.com> Would you like to learn how to create beautiful quilts with detailed patterns made from historical quilts? Now you can with my latest book, “Auction Blocks Historical Quilts from Famous Estates.” This is a 100+ page book…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:05:31 -0400 | From: “Jeff Lesh” <jeffleshnetins.net> Thanks to so many of you that have responding to my dilemma. I will let you know what ends up working. Just to add to my story. I did wash it a couple of times initially when…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:36:08 -0700 | From: Mary Lamb Becker <marylamb [at] mail [dot] execpc [dot] com> Regarding the question on birthdays and plaids that might be suitable for translation into quilt pattern, I have a book Needlepoint Plaids by Marion Broome Pakula from Crown Publishers published…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 06:36:52 -0400 (EDT) | From: quiltsnbears [at] webtv [dot] net (Textile Historian) Thank you for posting your reply to Ms. Tobin. Congratulations on your book which will be released in November. I am always encouraged when I am reminded that there are many quilt…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 07:40:38 -0400 | From: Fran Fitz <fjfitz@> Dorothy Osler, who is a member on QHL is an expert in Durham quilts and has written an excellent book on British Quilts, which was out of print or a while, but I got a copy not…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 22:32:09 -0400 | From: “John Cawley” <cawley [at] goeaston [dot] net> On Thursday I went to Quilt Odyssey which debuted this weekend in Gettysburg,PA. Nice quilts, lots of vendors (not all the same ones we usually see at the East Coast shows), a facility…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 22:41:51 EDT | From: StanfieldA I find it necessary again to present a museum perspective re the conditions at the Smithsonian. First, please be aware that the Smithsonian Institution has one of the best and most professional staffs in the world. They know what…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 22:21:08 PDT | From: “Anne Copeland” <anneappraiser@> Yes, you are right. When a museum gets an article donated into its collection, it is acquisitioned–a number or identifier is assigned to it. Unless an object is on loan to a museum, they can in fact,…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 13:58:42 -0400 | From: “J. G. Row” <Judygrow@> The DAR Museum has just released its 2nd heritage applique quilt pattern. It is a reproduction of the Mary Simon Quilt, a Baltimore Album style quilt. There are full size black and white drawings of each…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 22:21:19 -0500 | From: “quilt97” <quilt97@> Laura and others, Please explain a little more about developing a fabric dating workbook. Do you recommend saving a small piece of every fabric? Listing date, where purchased, price? What else? I had never thought of doing this…