Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 | From: “Charlotte Bull” <charlou@> Hey, they called them electric blankets in the 1950s! Our Electric Quilts are now EQ software designs. Not affiliated, just saw the joke hiding in that! Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 | From: “Judy Grow” <JudyGrow@> One of my…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 | From: “Jocelyn” I just bought a quilt top. The patchwork blocks (a multicolor 1930’s print and white) are in a pattern I’ve not seen before, reminiscent of Xquisite, but forming elongated stars, not Xs. It has 4 borders attached, all plain Cloth of…
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: Thu, 2 Oct | From: Marthapatches36@ What a wonderful ending, so glad a quilter looked in the box. l Hate to think our airlines and/or airports would have deliberately taken it. Date: Thu, 2 Oct [date inferred — no Date: header in source] | From: diane shink <dimacquilt@>…
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…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 01:07:40 -0400 | From: “judygrow” <judygrow> Dear QHLer’s, The following reminder just went out to the regular attendees of the Studio Quilt Study Group. If any of you plan to be anywhere near west central NJ, you are invited to join us. I hope…