Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 08:36:24 EDT | From: Midnitelaptop@ bravo!!! judy, seriously, how would we go about getting the attention of some professional historians…so that this HIPV myth , which is slowly becoming accepted as historical fact, corrected? jeanL Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 09:44:44 -0500 | From:…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 12:54:53 -0500 | From: “Kathy Moore” <KathyMoore@> Julie, could your image be the result of a process I’ve seen done using turpentine (I think)? I saw it done once on Simply Quilts and the demonstrator said it was the way image transfers were done…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:03:07 -0500 | From: “Jocelyn Martin” <jocelynm@> >>>specifically, the quilt was made. She replied that with doubts as serious as mine, she would be happy if I passed on bidding on the auction. Since the auction had already ended, I found this remark to…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 05:26:57 -0700 (PDT) | From: Dana at Material Pleasures <danabalsamo@> Hello all, I have a neighbor friend who from the day she learned I quilted has bombarded me with sewing alternations, split seams, and for the past 2 years a request to make a…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 | From: “Crandall Associates” <rcrandalmaine.@> Hi All-I seem to be in the book business lately. I hope anyone who wanted the “Calico and Chintz” book was able to contact me for their copy. Those who ordered should have them by now. Today I visited…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: louise-b Donna Kohler was on a recent segment of Simply Quilts with her machines. She has a quilt in Ricky Timms book that was made using a treadle. She takes them to workshops also. I have made one king-size top last year using a Singer 201k treadle and…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 07:57:15 -0500 | From: Gail Ingram <gingram@> Linda, I’d hang in there. See if your local paper will do a feature and if not, take out a small add. Make posters and place them wherever your town permits. After decades (DECADES!!!) of searching for…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, | From: Patricia L Cummings <quiltersmuse@> Jan wrote: Meantime, Pat is in New Hampshire swallowing elephants (not a native animal to NH). Pat, that is a funny phrase. Is this common? Any clue to its origin? (Probably not biblical.) Dear Jan: I am sitting here chuckling (quietly)…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: “Velia Lauerman” <velialive@> Yes Judy, You are absolutely correct. Best to watch the quilts that have been sandwiched between sheets in the air tumbler cycle for a short time. No fabric softener paper as I have heard done. Even a little of those smelly papers are harmful if…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Sue Reich “I knew Wilkes Booth very well, and he sometimes slept at our house. Hew was a tall, well made young fellow, and he had large black eyes and luxuriant hair. He was a nervous, erratic, strange man; and it is a curious thing that he slept…