Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:43:05 +0000 | From: deedadik@ Hi all, If the collection of doll quilts just purchased at auction came from Ohio, they were wonderful. Glad someone on the list got them. Molly Butler and I were at the auction house for the preview and answered…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:54:32 +0100 | From: Sally Ward <sallytatters@> I’ve spent years recording sightings of these quilts in the UK. Despite the many many thousands that were sent over, the number that survive is relatively very very small. We assume that they were used and loved…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: gingham Beverly, Yes. I couldn’t have answered your question until last night when I got a treasure: A pamphlet titled Antique Quilts of Utah. “Quilts and coverlets pictured in this publication were selected from throughout Utah to be displayed at the 1977 Festival of the American West at…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:53:07 +0200 | From: Ann Van Roy <ann.quilten@> I grew up in a Belgian village were there are two military graveyards from WorldWar II Each Summer, there were summercamps for German youth, who spend their Summerholidays tending the graves. The organisation was called ‘Versöhnung…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Laura Fisher <laurafisherquilts@> OK here’s my two cents about Courthouse Steps, a log cabin variation pattern. The finished log cabin quilt design depends on the placement and juxtaposition of light and dark colors. In Courthouse Steps, the lights are grouped opposite each other, and the darks are grouped…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:12:32 -0600 | From: Gail Ingram <gingram@> I have no bear stories, merci dieu. Yet, we have been reintroducing black bears into Louisiana for a while now. First in the Tensas (ten saw) swamp area where Teddy Roosevelt found his bear cub. By now,…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:11:10 -0600 | From: Gail Ingram <gingram@> To what Alan, Phyllis, and Karen have said, may I add a couple of suggestions? First, you might also want to obtain the Smithsonian’s “Guide to Folklife Research” (probably not the exact title, but almost). Copies are…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:43:46 -0800 | From: Julie Silber <quiltcomplex@> Another question for you good people: I recently did a day of quilt appraisals at a museum here in California. I was shown an all white wholecloth, hand quilted “Bride’s Quilt.” I would have pegged it at…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:37:00 -0500 | From: “Sharon in NC” <patchworksecrets2@> Speaking as someone who collects/repairs sewing machines and currently has 9 treadles in her personal collection of which I do sew with them all……….You can’t…..The only one that you MIGHT be able to tell and only…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 05:10:15 -0800 (PST) | From: Ark Quilts <quiltarkmv@> Dear Carolyn– The only way to locate all 4 holdings that IQSC has –the complete Smithsonian Collection– is to do a keyword search. keyword China Sort by Origin This search produces the 4 in the Smithsonian…