Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:34:02 -0800 | From: “Mindy Sharp” <Mindy@> In 1991, Reconciliation Quilt sold at Sothebys for $264,000. It is apictorial album quilt made buy Lucinda Ward Honstain. Does anyone know whenthis quilt was made? It is housed at the International Quilt Study Center. MindyWhen life…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 04:58:10 | From: “Anne Copeland” <anneappraiser@> Wasn’t there a quilt recently with the initials WSC on it that peoplewereasking about? WSC was Western Sanitary Commission, which was abranch ofthe Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. Organized to helpcreatebetter sanitary conditions in the Northern war…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 06:24:29 -0500 | From: “Zendelle Bouchard” <zendelle@> A woman I know has a ’70s quilt top made for her by a friend, it isscrapsquares about 5″ with a yoyo in the center of each one. Each squareand yoyois a different polyester doublknit. Sounds hideous…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 09:56:19 -0500 | From: “Nancy Roberts” <aquilter@> The letters WRC rang a bell in my head when I first saw them, and this morning the words Women’s Relief Corps came to me. I did a bit of searching on the internet and found these…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 22:33:50 -0500 | From: seater@ Turkish and other oriental carpets are always shown this way, both in US and in Turkey. In Ankara and Istanbul in Feb 2000 we were always offered tea to sip while the rugs were “turned”, but that hasn’t happened…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:18:18 -0500 | From: “Cinda Cawley” <lrcawley@> Once again Hazel Carter and Bunnie Jordan organized anoutstandingexcursion into quilt history. The Fabric Dating Club (it’s much morefun todrop Fabric from the name and see the quizzical looks that women “ofacertain age” get when we announce…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 21:58:50 -0000 | From: “Sally Ward” <Sally.D.Ward@> Somebody please explain? ‘Bed spreader and Straightener’? How bigwould thisthing be, and how did it work?http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1500062955 <img alt=”Mvc-906s.jpg (13844 bytes)” border=”2″ height=”48″ src=”./02007_files/Mvc-906s_small.jpg” width=”100″/><img alt=”Mvc-905s.jpg (8658 bytes)” border=”2″ height=”20″ src=”./02007_files/Mvc-905s_small.jpg” width=”100″/><img alt=”Mvc-907s.jpg (9575 bytes)” border=”2″ height=”27″ src=”./02007_files/Mvc-907s_small.jpg”…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 23:22:48 EST | From: [from unknown] Hi all; I need a quilt appraiser or textile conservator in the Lancaster, PA area. Any ideas? Thanks, Darwin Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 08:39:10 EST | From: [from unknown] i think lynn hit the “nail on the…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 04:00:45 +0000 | From: “Karen Bush” <karenbush11@> I was quilting for a customer at the time. It was a flag quilt, and startedthe weekend before. …On 9-ll, I looked at the quilting design andtherejust wasn’t enough. Through part of that week, I un-quilted andre=quiltedit….
This page first appeared on QuiltHistory.com in October 2001. Longtime Quilt History List member Peggy Notestine was handed a black trash bag of family quilts and asked the list to help her learn about them. The list answered, and you can read those replies in the QHL digest for October 29 – November 6, 2001….