Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:54:32 +0100 | From: Sally Ward <sallytatters@> I’ve spent years recording sightings of these quilts in the UK. Despite the many many thousands that were sent over, the number that survive is relatively very very small. We assume that they were used and loved…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: gingham@ Just came across an unusual quilt being offered by Mark French on Ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageNameADME:B:FSEL:US:1&Item7412678031 Item 7412678031 It is a red white and blue heart quilt with 20 heart blocks set 4×5. The block ground is blue and the hearts are red with white centers. Embroidered in each…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 17:43:59 -0500 | From: Andi I just heard from my non-quilting mother that the April 2006 issue of House and Garden magazine has an article on (I’m not sure what topic) that on page 116 – 117?? (this, too, may be an approximation) has…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:53:07 +0200 | From: Ann Van Roy <ann.quilten@> I grew up in a Belgian village were there are two military graveyards from WorldWar II Each Summer, there were summercamps for German youth, who spend their Summerholidays tending the graves. The organisation was called ‘Versöhnung…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 12:40:27 -0800 | From: “Marilyn Withrow” <marilynquilts@> It’s interesting to read different people’s immediate impressions of a different quilt block. To me, the block looked like Noah’s Ark, but with a very deep bottom — to someone else, it looked like tubs of candy….
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:12:32 -0600 | From: Gail Ingram <gingram@> I have no bear stories, merci dieu. Yet, we have been reintroducing black bears into Louisiana for a while now. First in the Tensas (ten saw) swamp area where Teddy Roosevelt found his bear cub. By now,…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 05:22:52 -0700 | From: gingham@ Julie, From a quick search: Brackman 2992 The Double Pineapple -Rural New Yorker 11/21/31 Okay, so do I win the quilt???? Does it need a good home? Sandra in Utah Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:16:50 -0600 | From:…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Pat Cummings Dear Mitzi: It is pretty easy to copyright a book or other design item that you want to claim as your own work. The forms are fairly short and concise, and you can download them from your home computer. To copyright a book, one sends $30.00…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: “Sharon in NC” Yes a technique can be patented. A very good recent example is the “Cotton Theory”.. The drawbacks.. Teachers will not pay the exorbitant fees she requires to be able to “teach her methods”…Also the patent itself is online so anyone who wishes to can go…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 22:23:16 -1000 | From: Loretta Woodard <Lwoodard@> La Conner museum is hosting an exhibit of contemporary Hawaiian quilts made by Hawaii artists. “Hawaiian Quilt Inspiration,” curated by Patricia Lei Murray, will be on view March 15 – May 14, 2006. An article about Patricia…