Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, | From: Patricia L Cummings <quiltersmuse@> Jan wrote: Meantime, Pat is in New Hampshire swallowing elephants (not a native animal to NH). Pat, that is a funny phrase. Is this common? Any clue to its origin? (Probably not biblical.) Dear Jan: I am sitting here chuckling (quietly)…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: “Rowan, Samantha (NY)” I was looking for information on Marion Cheever Whiteside Newton and her quilts–does anyone know if you can buy copies of the patterns anywhere? They are so pretty! I’ve got the Little Women one but that is all. Sam From: Ark Quilts <quiltarkmv@> This sampler…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:44:51 -0500 | From: “Cindy Samson” <cvswmis.net> I had bad experience using Lestoil to remove a black machine oil stain.. In college I took an applied textile design course in which I bleached out a design area on light colored, 100% cotton, cordless corduroy,…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 | From: “Quiltstuff” <quiltstuffoptusnet.com.au> I was looking at a quilt on EBay described as 1850s and was intrigued by the fabric with the quite bright pink flowers. Would that be more like the fabrics described as having neon like colours from the 1890’s?? It…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Xenia Cord <xenia@> Virginia Snow Studios (Collingbourne Mills/Dexter Threads, Elgin, Illinois) sold squares of white fabric stamped for the placement of Double Wedding Ring block components. Apparently one pieced the arcs, then appliquéd them to the stamped block. These were marketed as blocks, with information in fine print…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Gail Ingram <gingram@> Does anyone on this list know pattern source for quilt listed “Funky Forties Basket” in DSQSG meeting report? Before my fall Outlook Express crash, a member had identified the source as a pattern that appeared in newspaper in 1940. Quilt was made in Briston, TN….
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Xenia Cord <xenia@> Last Sunday in the local paper there was a long article interviewing a Friends minister who dresses in period costume and gives programs on the substantiated Quaker role here in the UGRR. Unfortunately she also includes information on ‘codes’ quilts and the UGRR. Today the…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 01:12:09 -0500 | From: “J. G. Row” <JudyGrow@> Are any of you near Loyola University? Dr Clarice Boswell will be the featured guest at the Loyola University Library Book Club on Wednesday, February 18th. Crown Center Auditorium/Lobby, Lake Shore Campus. 6:00 PM. >Featured Reading:…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: February 10, 2004 | From: “Jocelyn” <jocelynm@> > Not everyone in the US met progress at the same pace. My grandfather was > killed in a horse & wagon accident in the 1940’s. And my father had a contract with the US Postal Service to break the roads…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: February 8, 2004 | From: “Jocelyn” <jocelynm@> > > Here is an email I just received from the reporter at the Topeka > Capitol Journal re the article which appeared several days ago, One might think that the Topeka Capitol Journal might be able to spare a reporter…