Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 06:33:34 -0400 (EDT) | From: AJSNGS [at] aol [dot] com Carla and all, Don’t forget that you can usually get books via the inter-library loan system, and it’s much less expensive to do this rather than borrow from others and pay alot of postage…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 19:54:59 -0400 (EDT) | From: Baglady111 [at] aol [dot] com I’m jsut wondering if the ink goes back further..I know of a lady who’se g.father did threshing for folks..they would carve their name in a block of wood, dip it in ink, and stamp…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 21:57:31 -0400 (EDT) | From: “Kris Driessen, Hickory Hill Quilts” <oldquilt [at] albany [dot] net> Are there any restorers in the Buffalo NY area on this list? I have acustomer bringing me a quilt to the NQA show in Syracuse next week and Iwould…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 22:08:21 -0400 (EDT) | From: LISA108 [at] delphi [dot] com I haven’t heard of Eaton Hill, but there’s a woman in Chesterfield, MA, namedKathleen B. Smith who does much the same thing. The dyes were all authenticand the stuff she makes looked lovely…I’ve been…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 17:52:01 -0400 (EDT) | From: LISA108 [at] delphi [dot] com Curiously enough, in England Log Cabin is known as “Canadian patchwork,” orwas in the 19th century. Janet Rae’s =Quilts of the British Isles= cites a1920’s source that claimed that there was a pieced silk…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Grab Bag: Fabric Finds & Book Recommendations — Members share recent fabric and quilt-top finds along with recommended reading, including a novel referencing quilt history.Underground Railroad Quilt Codes, Continued — The Log Cabin/Underground Railroad debate continues, with members citing sources on both sides and questioning how patterns could have been reliably…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 08:32:12 EDT | From: debatqps [at] juno [dot] com Hi Jane and all, Yes, I see an increase in the amount of history books that have sold lately BUT we are carrying more titles and I am sure that has something to do with…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: 21 Apr 97 08:39:13 EDT | From: “Kathryn c. Cole” <104066.3347 [at] CompuServe [dot] COM Good Morning All: Nancy Sentipal: I don’t know of any current quilt exhibits in the Ann Arbor Area. If you let me know when you’re coming to visit, I will see if I…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:24:06 -0400 | From: Ricki Maietta Hi everyone. Just thought you’d like to know that I have gotten Golden Syrup in Canada. It’s not just an Australian thing, but a British thing (I guess?). Got mine in a dept. store gourmet shop in Toronto….
Primary topics of this QHL Digest Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 10:16:38 -0400 (EDT) | From: Baglady111 [at] aol [dot] com cc: qhl [at] cuenet [dot] com Subject: QHL: lost & found Message-ID: <970407101638_1984912859 [at] emout12 [dot] mail [dot] aol [dot] com> we found a nice tote at our convention in Lancaster..it is quilter ‘identifiable’..describe…