Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 30 Aug 06 07:32:11 -0400 | From: joan kiplinger Gail — I just haven’t been myself since Pluto left the system so my thought process is fuzzy these trying days. 😀 So in this mode, as I recall and generally speaking, one of the chief sources of…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 00:29:12 -0400 | From: kim1964hay Hello all, I received my copy about a week and a half ago – I ordered it from the publisher, http://www.Schifferbooks.com. The price was 29.95. Kim Haynes Kim1964hay Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 09:34:10 -0400 | From: Debby Kratovil…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 3:09:33 -0700 | From: <suereich@> Take a look at the link to 14 pages of AQSG 2006 study quilts featured in American Patchwork & Quilting’s October, 2006 issue, then EXHALE !!! The magazine features our study center on page 114 with an applique quilt…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:25:57 EDT | From: Mendofleur@ This may seem like an obscure request, but I discovered two rolls of wallpaper today in an antique mall that I could not leave behind. The designs were exquisite and the colors breathtaking. They reminded me of the gorgeous…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 02:34:20 -0400 | From: Marsha MacDowell <macdowel@> Couple of things regarding Native American quilts. 1. Regrettably, the photo of Red Cloud’s wife was mislabelled in the book To Honor and Comfort. If we ever reprint the book it will be one of the very…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:17:37 EDT | From: Blackeyesandysue@ Meg, There is the “Mayflower Quilt”. It is owned by the Lovely Lane Church in Baltimore Maryland. It was said to have come over on the Mayflower. It is now said to have been brought over by the Cogswell…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:39:54 -0700 | From: Alan Me? I’d buy the cheddar/red/green quilt in a heartbeat (I’m jealous). Looks c1900 to me, probably earlier. The maple leaf looks no earlier than the 1970’s, and the star quilt looks new. Alan From: J. G. Row My mother…
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: 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: From: “Fawn Valentine” Regarding the Confederate quilts with silk-like braided thread, it sounds like possible souache (spelling?) embroidery: a narrow tape stitched onto a background fabric, as in couching. Of course, a photo will tell the tale, hopefully. The technique suggests crazy quilts. It was during the “crazy quilt…