Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: “Candace Perry” I come into work this morning and my boss had picked up a donation from some of our elderly supporters…well, and what a donation it is! I was, I daresay, hyperventilating (those of you who know me know my enthusiastic nature…) A quilt top, Mosaic/Grandmother’s Flower…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Jean If anyone lives near Alton, IL, and is able to visit Loomis Hall, please try to authenticate this supposed “message quilt” referred to in the travel ad at the following web site, sponsored by Springfield, IL: http://www.visit-springfieldillinois.com/grouptours/i-secrets.htm I’d be curious to know its age and provenance. This…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:39:02 +0100 | From: Sally Ward <sallytatters@> I remember Portiere Rods on doorways in both Grandparents’ houses. The rod stood out on brackets, about 6″ from the door, wider and higher than the door itself. One of the brackets was fixed to the rod,…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Laura Robins-Morris It gets even worse than the quilt codes myth. I watched the video and there is a student re-telling the stories of real escaped slaves. One is about Eliza Harris in ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ who “ran across the Ohio River on big chunks of ice.” Eliza…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Karen Evans OTOH, Giles Wright is having an impact…a friend of mine who’s a children’s librarian used him in a PowerPoint presentation that debunked the quilt code. She’s in Princeton, New Jersey, in case anyone on the list is in that area. Karen Evans From: KYRA HICKS The…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:13:23 -0800 (PST) | From: Judy White <whitey06029@> I should have made myself more clear. I do charge by the hour for restoration work. However, I’m not a fast quilter and to charge someone by the hour to quilt a quilt would not be…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Xenia Cord <xenia@> Hi, Sue – I got into my Esther O’Neill folder, and there is one other clue to age: the address on the leaflets. Earlier leaflets have “205 State Life Bldg” as the address, and there are several variations in the printing of leaflets with this…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: “Laurie Magee & Tom Blajeski” I have a Hmong employee and she gave me a lovely one for Christmas. If you are interested perhaps you could borrow it? copntact me personally if you are interested. Laurie in Wisconsin. From: “Lynne Z. We’re working on it! Don’t hold your…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 07:03:33 -0600 | From: Xenia Cord <xenia@> As a longtime dealer in antique quilts, I think I can say that separate labeling is a fairly new phenomenon. For several years (recently), Mountain Mist batting included a label, and one could also obtain the specially…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Sally Ward Talk of prepositions sent me looking for a quote that my Mother told me came from Winston Churchill; she always claimed he said in a speech: ‘Up with which the British public will not put’. Couldn’t find it, but I did find this from the same…