Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:46:59 -0400 | From: Lucinda Cawley (lrcawley) http://www.winterthur.org/calendar/quilts_conference.asp#workshops_tours Today is the first day to register for the quilt seminar at Winterthur March 31, 2007. I’ve already signed up. This is definitely going to be worth a trip. Check it out. Cinda on the Eastern…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 06:43:13 -0400 | From: Debby Kratovil (kratovil) Wow, Velia! I just had to check out Library Thing and I am very excited. I have hundreds of books that I have desperately wanted to catalog and a paltry attempt at working with a database in…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 2 Sep 06 07:04:19 -0500 | From: Barbara Vlack (cptvdeo) FWIW, I have the Anne Orr pattern booklet by Lockport Quilting, copyright 1944. There are similar floral designs made up of squares, but none is exactly like this quilt. Were there other designs inspired by Anne Orr’s…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 30 Aug 06 07:32:11 -0400 | From: joan kiplinger Gail — I just haven’t been myself since Pluto left the system so my thought process is fuzzy these trying days. 😀 So in this mode, as I recall and generally speaking, one of the chief sources of…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:22:04 -0500 | From: Jennifer Perkins (qltrstore) I have just spent the most wonderful 2-1/2 days at the State Historical Building in Des Moines looking at the Mary Barton collection. I wish Gail had been along because then you would get a really well…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:41:44 -0400 | From: J. G. Row (JudyGrow) I can’t do as well as Cinda does with words in describing the quilts that we saw at our July meeting. But we do take photos. There is a link to the photos from that meeting…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:40:28 -0400 | From: Teddy Pruett (aprayzer) Pepper wrote: <<I’ve had the unpleasant experience of unfolding an old, otherwise mint, quilt at an auction and there, along the white flour markings, were carcasses of enormous roaches—eeeewwwww!>> Reminds me of a similar experience. I was…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 00:29:12 -0400 | From: kim1964hay Hello all, I received my copy about a week and a half ago – I ordered it from the publisher, http://www.Schifferbooks.com. The price was 29.95. Kim Haynes Kim1964hay Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 09:34:10 -0400 | From: Debby Kratovil…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:57:38 +0200 | From: adi hirsh <adamroni@> A quick google search yielded the following: http://www.okhistory.org/folk/articles/Charm%20Strings.pdf Incidentally, the Victorian love of buttons was not limited to charm strings – I have a collection of lace making bobbins dating to mid to late 19th cent. The…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:25:57 EDT | From: Mendofleur@ This may seem like an obscure request, but I discovered two rolls of wallpaper today in an antique mall that I could not leave behind. The designs were exquisite and the colors breathtaking. They reminded me of the gorgeous…