Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:29:07 -0600 | From: gingham It depends on how the block is actually pieced and I can’t tell from the pictures. So look at how many pieces each block has and compare Brackman 2813c Friendship chain or album (13 squares & 4 rectangles) to…
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: 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: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 1:45:39 -0700 | From: <suereich@> Last Thursday, I was privileged to visit the Litchfield Historical Society in preparation for the AQSG Seminar visit in October. Julie Frey is the textile curator who will be assisting us. Let me just say this about their quilts,…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:43:05 +0000 | From: deedadik@ Hi all, If the collection of doll quilts just purchased at auction came from Ohio, they were wonderful. Glad someone on the list got them. Molly Butler and I were at the auction house for the preview and answered…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:54:32 +0100 | From: Sally Ward <sallytatters@> I’ve spent years recording sightings of these quilts in the UK. Despite the many many thousands that were sent over, the number that survive is relatively very very small. We assume that they were used and loved…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Laura Fisher <laurafisherquilts@> OK here’s my two cents about Courthouse Steps, a log cabin variation pattern. The finished log cabin quilt design depends on the placement and juxtaposition of light and dark colors. In Courthouse Steps, the lights are grouped opposite each other, and the darks are grouped…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 12:40:27 -0800 | From: “Marilyn Withrow” <marilynquilts@> It’s interesting to read different people’s immediate impressions of a different quilt block. To me, the block looked like Noah’s Ark, but with a very deep bottom — to someone else, it looked like tubs of candy….
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Pat Cummings Dear Mitzi: It is pretty easy to copyright a book or other design item that you want to claim as your own work. The forms are fairly short and concise, and you can download them from your home computer. To copyright a book, one sends $30.00…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:43:46 -0800 | From: Julie Silber <quiltcomplex@> Another question for you good people: I recently did a day of quilt appraisals at a museum here in California. I was shown an all white wholecloth, hand quilted “Bride’s Quilt.” I would have pegged it at…