Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 | From: “Jean Carlton” <jeancarlton@ Thanks Marsha andseveral others who had info on crazy quilts using = fabric from highbutton shoes/linings. Is there a way to see a photo of = the one atMSU museum?=20 jean Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 07:13:10 -0500 |…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 07:28:25 -0500 | From: Judy Roche <jrocheq@ Julie, Would like to see the ‘most interesting back’ on a 1940s Ninepatch. My Amish quilts all have plain backs (of course in glorious colors),but then they are all Lancaster and one Center Valley(is that right? western…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 10:03:29 | From: EMetcalfe@ Recently there was a good discussion on basting sprays for quilts, and I have a question about marking implements for them. I have been using either the water erasable or air erasable pens to get my design on the borders…..
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 | From: “Sally Ward” <sallytatters@> As a footnote to this past thread, I’ve asked someone who has spent the last 25 years looking at, UK quilts (a member of the Quilt Treasures documentation team) if she has come across dyed wool wadding. I also…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 | From: Donald Beld <donbeld@> Hi, I am in the process of donating a Garfield’s Monument quilt my great-great-grandmother, Perthina Bailey, (don’t you love her first name) made in the mid to late 1880 to the Lincoln Shrine in Redlands, California. However, it has…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:46:31 -0400 | From: Beth Donaldson <quilts@> Here is a quote from Mary Schafer and Her Quilts by Gwen Marston and Joe Cunningham (you can purchase this book at http://35.8.122.90/MTAPStore/category.asp?time=104029&category=QOT.) This passage refers to the unfinished quilts that Mary Schafer acquired and finished after…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:10:51 -0400 [date inferred — no Date: header in source] | From: “jocelynm@” I really would be interested in hearing the story behind this one. Copyright protects original work, and I don’t see how a common phrase couldbe attributable to one person’s original work….
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:43:12 -0400 | From: “Teddy Pruett” <aprayzer@> I was pleased to see Sue’s request for info on rebuttals to the UGRR baloney. To my horror, I’ve recently found out that the guest speaker at my guilds upcoming annual show (small) will be talking about…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: [date unknown] | From: [from unknown] I was taught many years ago that poly batting should never be put into baby quilts or even quilts intended for older children. In a fire the poly batting doesn’t burn — it melts and adheres to the skin and causes more…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 05 Sep | From: Joan Kiplinger <jkip> Now on eboard — an unusual redwork quilt c1880s belonging to Ruth Rhoades. http://vintagepictures.eboard.com Select quilt tab. Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 12:28:49 -0400 | From: “Joe MacDonald” <jmacdon6maine.> I have a question about cotton batting. I have been hand…