Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 22:10:48 EDT | From: [from unknown] I know I learned to sew in Home Ec class, 8 th grade 1969-70, there was a lot of fabric sold in 36″ widths even then.Carla Jolman,Muskegon, Michigan Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 19:40:58 -0700 (PDT) | From:…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:47:31 -0400 (EDT) | From: JOCELYNM [at] delphi [dot] com On 10-OCT-1998 234650.5 oldquilt said to JOCELYNM > Now my question is why was this quilt made? Why is it dated 1841 if the signatures are later? Why is it quilt number 1? Who…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 01:11:23 -0400 | From: “Judy Grow” <Judygrow [at] blast [dot] net >I’ve failed miserably with my dd’s as far as the quilting heritage being passed down in my family, (they don’t know how to thread a needle)… Karen — give them time. I too…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 22:21:39 -0400 | From: Anthony Jones <ajones2 [at] tampabay [dot] rr [dot] com This is important to all of us. Especialy in heritage quilters who may be tempted to copy a quilt we see in a museum or historic house. Besides courtesy, you have…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 21:27:44 EDT | From: Qltldy10 [at] aol [dot] com Jean, I’m days behind in my mail, so I hope someone else told you this… but… name of the book I have is Forties Fabrics, by Joy Shih, a Schiffer Design Book. Schiffer Publishing, 77…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 21:21:42 +0400 | From: Xenia Cord <xecord [at] netusa1 [dot] net> 7bit L & M made a L & M made a brand of cigarettes called Eve sometime in the 1970s, I believe. Perhaps the fabric is related to that brand, which appears to…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 22:26:19 EDT | From: Tom1Glo2 [at] aol [dot] com I have made about 5 flannel quilts under the tuteledge of Fabric Expression people in Denver. They advised me to use the lightest poly batt available as even the two layers of flannel make them…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 21:37:35 -0600 | From: “William G. French” <alaska [at] radiks [dot] net Today while viewing a small quilt display at the Museum of Nebraska History in Lincoln, NE, I saw a crazy quilt embroidered with “Hurrah for McKinley & Gold”. This was a friendship…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 22:11:38 EDT | From: Feathrwate [at] aol [dot] com Xenia, isn’t Cloth of Gold originally from Greenwood, SC? They have an outlet store in Spartanburg, which was recently moved from Hendersonville, NC. I bet Georgia Bonesteel knows where Cloth of Gold was manufactured Linda…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 00:16:21 -0400 | From: “Judy Grow” <Judygrow [at] blast [dot] net >I have 3 wool braided area rugs that were made by a great grandmother who died in her 80’s in the early 1960’s. ……but they need to >be cleaned and I considered getting…