Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:58:04 -0500 | From: “Cinda Cawley” The Fabric Dating Club sponsored by hazel Carter and Bunnie Jordan met in Annandale, VA on Sunday. The topic was “Your Oldest Quilt.” You all know how hard it is to find a pre-1850 quilt. Well, now you’ll…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 21:37:48 -0600 | From: “Kelly Robinson” <ksrobinson@> Carolyn, If your pattern does turn out to be associated with Marion Whiteside Newton, one of her descendants is now re-printing some of her story book patterns. They were applique and ranged from “Little Women”, “Pinocchio” to…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 20:26:34 -0500 | From: “Sondra Biacchi” <quilt@> palampore Message-ID: In the book THE PIECED QUILT, pp. 15 is a pic of a flowering mid-18th century Palampore, Tree of Life. A friend of mine is quite taken with this quilt. According to the book the…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:17:04 -0600 | From: “Carla Toczek” <CToczek@> I’ve yet to report an ebay find to the group, but when I saw this one today I knew it was worth mentioning. I enjoy seeing quilts which haven’t appeared in media before and now I wonder…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 08:23:59 -0800 (PST) | From: Kris Driessen Would anyone like to respond directly to this lady? Be sure to copythe list, too! As far as I know, the Amish didn’t make doll quiltsbut I wouldn’t mind if someone wanted to tell me I was…
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: Sun, 26 May 2002 19:49:46 -0400 | From: “Cinda Cawley” In the Spring issue of Maryland Historical Magazine (the journal of the MD Historical Soc.) there’s an article titled “The Transported Convict Women of Colonial Maryland, 1718-1776. The author Edith Ziegler is described as an American History graduate…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 22:40:05 -0500 | From: “Junior/Peggy McBride” This is rather an aside, but you need to remember that the large majority of women who went west, did not go because it was their idea. Many went because they had no choice. The head of the…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 23:31:08 -0400 | From: “judygrow” <judygrow@> I sent him a like message too. I wonder how many others of us did? Fess up now. As of a moment ago he had 103 hits on this book and not one bid. Some of those hits…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 23:17:47 -0500 | From: Barb Garrett <bgarrett@> For those of you venturing to Lancaster during Quilt Week the first week of April, these are some other locations of vintage quilt exhibits — Feedsack Club Conference –http://members.aol.com/feedsack1/conference.html Patterns of Pennsylvania: Quilts from the Heritage Center’sCollectionSchwenkfelder…