Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:30:56 -0600 | From: “Peggy McBride” <jlmpam@ I learned the trick of joining batting. on the two edges to be joined, carefully divide the batting then lap them together by weaving the edges, that is put down the first half of the first length…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 23:39:54 EST | From: JQuilt@ Or, maybe Reynolds could make a roll of freezer paper 11 inches wide…and we could cut 8 1/2 inch pieces from it.The website to contact Reynolds paper is:http://www.rmc.com/gen/contact.htmljean jquilt@ Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:36:37 EST | From: JQuilt@…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 00:38:37 -0500 | From: “Judy Grow” <Judygrow [at] blast [dot] net> Following is a bibliography of books that have bearing on oral history. I have taken it from the booklet ” Oral History for the Local Historical Society”, third edition, revised, by Willa K….
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 07:50:53 EST | From: Kittencat3 [at] aol [dot] com Sally – If you can find it, Ken Burns’s documentary series =The Civil War= is a superb (if long) account of our great national tragedy. A fictionalized version of the climactic battle of the Civil…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:21:35 EST | From: Xroadclown [at] aol [dot] com My grandmother pieced and hand quilted her first quilt when she was 13. She had the help of some of her cousins, and was so upset about the quality of the work they did, that…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 15:20:21 -0600 | From: Laura Hobby Syler <texas_quilt.co [at] mail [dot] airmail [dot] net I just received a letter from a quilter in Japan that said she saw an article (?) on the Vintage Quilt & Textile Society in the Feb issue. Is there…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:45:05 -0500 | From: Libby Magnello <libbym [at] ccia [dot] com> I asked my friend who sells books and this is what she said- Libby let me know someone was asking about the new crazy quilt books.. Sorry I don’t know what list it…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:21:47 EST | From: AZPatch12 [at] aol [dot] com Well, I’ve finally come out of “lurkdom” to join the masses at QHL. I collect antique tape measures (the type customarily used for sewing, not the metal tape type).I have an unusual but interesting collection,…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:04:52 -0600 (CST) | From: akcruz [at] ix [dot] netcom [dot] com (Alfonso & Alice Cruz) About 2 wks ago, I was able to attend a talk by one of the co-authors of this book, Jackie Tobin, in Fremont Nebraska. Her co-author is Raymond…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 19:24:07 -0800 | From: Katrina Worley <kworley [at] ns [dot] net> some questions: is it hand or machine sewn, is it sewn in straight panels or in flared gores, is the skirt attached to the waistband evenly or with the fullness towards the back,…