Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 20:30:09 -0700 (PDT) | From: Kris Driessen One of my many hats is that of web mistress for http://www.quiltguilds.com . This announcement came into our show calendar, and I thought it was worthy of being brought to everyones attention: QUILTING AND OHIO’S BICENTENNIAL The…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 22:40:05 -0500 | From: “Junior/Peggy McBride” This is rather an aside, but you need to remember that the large majority of women who went west, did not go because it was their idea. Many went because they had no choice. The head of the…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 23:49:36 -0400 | From: “Jan Drechsler” After numerous e-mail inquiries about Memere’s quilt which had been mistreated and needed restoration and the memories of the fabric scraps from her mother’s dresses, I couldn’t wait to open the package when it arrived. I knew that…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:58:40 -0400 | From: “Gibson, Nancy” <ngibson@> For the Fag code go to the DAR website at www.dar.org. Click on therightside of the page “President General Salutes Patriotism.” go to theFlagCode. Everything you need to know will be there. Nancy GibsonCurator of Textiles/Public Affairs…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 22:54:16 -0500 | From: “Kalmia@” <kalmia@> _Old Swedish Quilts_ [Gamla svenska lapptäcken], by Åsa Wettre. English translation published 1995 by Interweave Press. Åsa put together an exhibition connected with this book. I saw it in Hjörring, Denmark, a year and a half ago, on…
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: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:58:51 -0500 | From: “Cinda Cawley” <lrcawley@> Mindy, Treasures in the Trunk: Quilts of the Oregon Trail by Mary Bywater Cross is the place to start. Cinda on the Eastern Shore Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 18:57:48 -0900 | From: “Gloria Hanrahan” <gloria@> I…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 00:31:09 -0600 | From: Becky Sunderman <sewcarve@> I have been reading the comments about quilts being sold oneBay with interest, as I am auctioning some of my quilts therenow, and have had some up for auction that did not sell in thelast month. They…
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…