Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 21:51:53 -0800 | From: “Christine Thresh” <christine@> I saw this link posted on another list today: http://www.rbhayes.org/quilt.html Interesting story. Perhaps it has been mentioned before and I missed it. Christine Thresh Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 09:47:00 -0000 | From: “Sally Ward” <sallytatters@> Way…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Kris Driessen <krisdriessen@> Here is a cut-and-paste from another list: Grand Opening of Quilt and Textile Museum in Lancaster, PA In a few weeks, The Quilt and Textile Museum of Lancaster, PA, will be opening its doors for the first time. On display will be the renowned Lancaster…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Gail Ingram <gingram@> Does anyone on this list know pattern source for quilt listed “Funky Forties Basket” in DSQSG meeting report? Before my fall Outlook Express crash, a member had identified the source as a pattern that appeared in newspaper in 1940. Quilt was made in Briston, TN….
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Xenia Cord <xenia@> Last Sunday in the local paper there was a long article interviewing a Friends minister who dresses in period costume and gives programs on the substantiated Quaker role here in the UGRR. Unfortunately she also includes information on ‘codes’ quilts and the UGRR. Today the…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 01:12:09 -0500 | From: “J. G. Row” <JudyGrow@> Are any of you near Loyola University? Dr Clarice Boswell will be the featured guest at the Loyola University Library Book Club on Wednesday, February 18th. Crown Center Auditorium/Lobby, Lake Shore Campus. 6:00 PM. >Featured Reading:…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: February 13, 2004 | From: “Quiltstuff” <quiltstuff@> Hi all, I have just finished reading a new book about old quilts in New Zealand. It is a lovely book and the story of the author’s personal task to catalogue her countries old quilts. The book is called Warm Heritage…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: February 10, 2004 | From: “Jocelyn” <jocelynm@> > Not everyone in the US met progress at the same pace. My grandfather was > killed in a horse & wagon accident in the 1940’s. And my father had a contract with the US Postal Service to break the roads…
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…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: February 4, 2004 | From: “Laurette Carroll” <rl.carroll@> Hello, I have a few of these 2 sided fabrics in my collection of fabrics and quilt tops. They are usually definite prints on each side of the fabric. My most interesting and puzzling two sided fabric is a white…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 | From: “Jocelyn” <jocelynm@> > ordinary names, but in the paper this morning in the comic strip “Get > Fuzzy” (I know all of you don’t get that strip) there was a cat named > Chubby Huggs. He was fat and hugged everybody. I…