QHL-Digest Digest Volume 97 : Issue 217

Today's Topics:

QHL: Brackman - Clues in the Calico

QHL: Re: QHL-Digest Digest V97 #216

QHL: Re: chicken pattern

Re: QHL: Re: 16-year-old DD

QHL: CQSG on Web

Re: QHL: Origin of wall quilts

QHL: Encyclopeida of Quilting Patterns

QHL: Re: candlewicking??

Re: QHL: Encyclopeida of Quilting Patterns

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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:00:23 -0500

From: LAURA SYLER <texas_quilt.co@airmail.net>

To: Quilt Heritage List <QHL@cuenet.com>

Subject: QHL: Brackman - Clues in the Calico

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Please forgive this post to the list, I'm not sure I have the right

e-mail address

Dear Barbara:

I'm really getting excited about your classes in Omaha! Only a few short

weeks away, but so much to do in the mean time. One thing is to put to

bed the first copy of the newsletter for VQTS ( the Vintage Quilt And

Textile Society - a new venture that an associate and I have started)

One of the things we will be doing is 2 or 3 book reviews each month on

publications that pertain to our specific area of interest. Since "the

Brackman Bibles of quilt & textile history" will be reviewed in our

first few issues I wanted to confirm rumors that Clues is indeed out of

print....Could you please confirm and let me know what your future plans

are for updated editions. If you want, and time is limited now, we can

do an "interview" in Omaha and get the details there, maybe over a glass

of wine, or dinner....

As to VQTS, what started out to be a local study group immediately

gained a life of its own and is in the first week a national

organization with close to 50 members, many locals in the N. Texas area,

and many well respected professional quilt historians, appraisers,

restoration specialists and antique quilt collectors. I hope that you

will consider becoming a member. I'll have all the pertanant propaganda

in Omaha.

Know you are busy, hope to hear from you soon.

Laura Hobby Syler

texas_quilt.co@airmail.net

> > >

We invite you to become a Charter member of the Vintage Quilt & Textile

Society. An organization devoted to the study and sharing of information

on vintage quilts, textiles and related topics. Monthly newsletters,

local meeting for those available and annual conference. For more

information contact:

Laura Hobby Syler

Karen Erlandson

Vintage Quilt & Textile Society

2401 Blue Cypress

Richardson, TX 75082

texas_quilt.co@airmail.net

Please include snail mail address

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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:05:35 -0400 (EDT)

From: Meredit300@aol.com

To: QHL@cuenet.com

Subject: QHL: Re: QHL-Digest Digest V97 #216

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If you are visiting Eagles Mere here are some phone numbers;

Eagles Mere Inn, 800-426-3273

Crestmont Inn, 800-522-8767

Labor day weekend has antique show which always includes quilts.

Autumn weekends are at special rates Monday through Thursday.

October 4-5 is Flaming Foliage Craft Show which is Endless Mountains crafts

Open through New Year's at least but be prepared for snow and a memorable

driving experience in the snow and ice.

Whirl's End now called locally Wor ld's End is state park with hiking,

swimming and fishing.There are lots of Nature conservancy hiking

trails....also a 52 mile trail through forest, past waterfall, creeks and

wildlife....30 minute drive to Ricketts Glen Waterfall Trail.

Enjoy!

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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:36:32 -0400 (EDT)

From: Quilt97@aol.com

To: QHL@cuenet.com, Baglady111@aol.com

Subject: QHL: Re: chicken pattern

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In a message dated 97-08-18 22:05:55 EDT, you write:

<<

I'll follow this request as well..THE FEEDSACK CLUB is looking for a chicken

pattern (possibly a mystery patterrn for our convetnion held in April..and

that wire fab sounds great..if anyone can offer a chicken pattern..please

email privately..unless others are interested..Jane of THE FEEDSACK CLUB

>>

Jane,

The following site has a "Big Chicken" pattern to paper piece.

<A HREF="http://www.quiltmag.com/patterns/patterns.html">

http://www.quiltmag.com/patterns/patterns.html</A>

Scroll down to the following, and it will take you to the Big Chicken.

"Please visit our #quilttalk site for more paper piecing patterns."

This site also has paper piecing blocks for each month of the year.

Hope this helps.

EKarenbeth

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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 10:40:50 -0400 (EDT)

From: HPQuilting@aol.com

To: QHL@cuenet.com

Subject: Re: QHL: Re: 16-year-old DD

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I don't know the particulars on this message, but count me in on the prayer

chain, Connie.

Penny(HPQuilting@aol.com)

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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 11:10:04 -0700

From: Nancy Cameron Armstrong <narmstr@ibm.net>

To: xecord@netusa1.net, joey@unixg.ubc.ca, wpang@pcug.org.au,

teisemon@worldbank.org, MAQSmus@apex.net, pilbara1@onaustralia.com.au,

fears52@aol.com, R-V-WOODSTOCK@worldnet.att.net, val@nf.sympatico.ca,

tmauvlus@aol.com, jethro@powerwindows.ca, shelley@slic.com,

sheidingsfelder@uaex.edu, 71324.1563@compuserve.com,

neil_sutcliffe@bc.sympatico.ca, sdillow@teknetwork.com,

rholland@atlanta.com, listserv@planetpatchwork.com,

quiltart@lists.his.com, QHL@cuenet.com, eccles@bc.sympatico.ca,

txcd003@unlvm.unl.edu, ptwkwhs@prcn.org, nancy.langton@commerce.ubc.ca,

kirkcoll@aol.com, nancy96@earthlink.net,

lepinemp@snybufaa.cs.shybuf.edu, da058@freenet.carleton.ca,

mfjames@meganet.net, gridgees@algorithms.com,

maurybynum@textileconservators.com, CMSSTALP@uga.cc.uga.edu,

mshold@compusmart.ab.ca, mbcquilt@web-ster.com, ghokebowne@aol.com,

mcdowell@museum.cl.msu.edu, ncqltwrk@vogan.capescott.net,

MEMCROBE@BCSC02.GOV.BC.CA, rolfe.patch@netinfo.com.au, OLTBobB@aol.com,

lgibney@laser.net, lois_brown@mindlink.bc.ca,

quilter@lhsdesigns.jagunet.com, threaddog@aol.com, lswim@fox.nstn.ca,

fhkc181@prodigy.com, oldquilt@albany.net, roarinfork@earthlink.net,

eparton@axionet.com, sporthb@clear.net.nz, karenodowd@earthlink.com,

raqbal@netcore.ca, quiltcomplex@earthlink.net, judyevelyn@msn.com,

jelsley@aol.com, judith@dilkie.com, jburley@netidea.com,

juanita_h@juno.com, jrice@Quetico.tbaytel.net, lefebvre@compmore.net,

baglady@aol.com, nomad1@ibm.net, hudson.scheffer@sympatico.ca,

htewell@cnw.com, heather@arlen.com, hynds@pacificrim.net,

gmagee825@aol.com, fpeel@island.net, elizabeth.richards@ualberta.ca,

newey@cyberbeach.net, dahma@netcore.ca, quiltline@aol.com,

dhyndman@direct.ca, ccameron@ccvax.fullerton.edu,

csellin@fmch.ucla.edu, crostron@planet.eon.net,

shornick@u.washington.edu, bab@idir.net, dcaddell@pinc.com,

aoota@mscom.or.jp, dblair@direct.ca, nzquilter@xtra.co.nz,

ap585@chebutco.ns.ca, annbow@cio.net, agsq@juno.com

Subject: QHL: CQSG on Web

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Dear CQSG members and friends,

You can now reach the home of CQSG by typing in the following address:

http://www.geocities.com/~cqsg/

Please let me know what you think? Open to suggestions for pages

(several now "under construction) and links, and ... well, what you

will.

Best to all,

nca

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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 17:31:47 -0700

From: LAURA SYLER <texas_quilt.co@airmail.net> (by way of Quilting Heritage ListServ <qrs@mail.albany.net>)

To: QHL@cuenet.com

Subject: Re: QHL: Origin of wall quilts

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Suzanna Keller wrote:

>

> In Nancy Cameron Armstrong's review of Instant Expert she mentioned that

> the author claimed quilts had, in the past, been used to cover "beds,

> windows and doors." (Can you tell I'm behind in reading my digests?)

>

> I've long wondered if quilts were used as insullation on walls -- the way

> tapestries had been -- in the years before central heating. Tapestries were

> used over 400 years ago and if made of wool yarn would likely have been

> warmer and cheaper than quilted textiles.

>

> Has anyone found reference to quilts functioning that way? I have been

> looking for an answer for awhile, but without luck.

>

> Thank-you for any help or advice.

>

> Suzanna Keller

> Kingston, Ont.

> suzanna@kos.net

Suzanna, if you can find a copy, check out Orlofsky's Quilts In

America. There is a lot of reference to quilts being used as

bedhangings.

Laura

texas_quilt.co@airmail.net

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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 17:31:58 -0700

From: deb roby <debroby@earthlink.net> (by way of Quilting Heritage ListServ <qrs@mail.albany.net>)

To: QHL@cuenet.com

Subject: QHL: Encyclopeida of Quilting Patterns

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Hello to you all,

Was reading Phyllis Miller's Encyclopedia of Quilting Patterns book, and

she mentioned that "in the block" quilting has just become popular this

century, starting about the 1900s and really growing popular in the

1930s. (In the block is what I think of as in the ditch... quilting 1/4"

away from some/all the seams in a pieced quilt block).

When I was out mowing (riding a big lawm mower is a great time to think,

the noise is like white noise, and I just keep following where I'd

already been. don't have to concentrate much except to keep the tractor

out of the road and out of the pond...)...

anyway, I began wondering when did commercially made battings become

a. available and

2. popular.

To my less than perfectly educated mind, the growth of commercial batting

seems to parallel the popularity of "in the block" quilting. And I am

wondering if I'm crazy, or if this might really be something to look

into.

Deb Roby

Chesterland, Ohio

It's sunny and cool today, but that's OK. This weekend we finally got

about 2.5" of desperately needed rain. The pond filled about 4" and the

grass is not as crunchy as it has been.

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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 17:31:42 -0700

From: Marion Ziegler <qltzig@earthlink.net> (by way of Quilting Heritage ListServ <qrs@mail.albany.net>)

To: QHL@cuenet.com

Subject: QHL: Re: candlewicking??

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Funny you should ask about that, this form of art was done years ago and

then died. But the other day my boss and another employee were talking

about doing a class on candlewicking that they had seen done at 1 of the

trainings that they had been to and it was all done by machine and they

could not believe how beautiful it was. Will try to find out more.

This weeekend we had a smocking class by machine and it is hard to tell

the difference between hand and machine.

Marion

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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 20:26:03 -0500

From: LAURA SYLER <texas_quilt.co@airmail.net>

To: "deb roby (by way of Quilting Heritage ListServ <qrs@mail.albany.net>)" <debroby@earthlink.net>

CC: QHL@cuenet.com

Subject: Re: QHL: Encyclopeida of Quilting Patterns

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deb roby (by way of Quilting Heritage ListServ ) wrote:

>

> Hello to you all,

>

> Was reading Phyllis Miller's Encyclopedia of Quilting Patterns book, and

> she mentioned that "in the block" quilting has just become popular this

> century, starting about the 1900s and really growing popular in the

> 1930s. (In the block is what I think of as in the ditch... quilting 1/4"

> away from some/all the seams in a pieced quilt block).

>

Deb, actually, what she referres to is what we call " by the piece, 1/4

inch away from the seam". In the ditch is actually a very difficult

technique whereby the stitches actually lie burried **in** the seam

line..in the little ditch that the two pieces of fabric make when they

are seamed together. In Harriet Hargraves new book, "From Fiber to

Fabric", chapter 4, she gives a very good and concise history of batting

and early batting manufactures. Sterns & Foster perfected the comercial

cotton bat in the mid 1840's. In 1956 they were also the first to

produce a poly bat using duPont polyester, with Morning Glory and

Fairfield soon to follow .

If you havn't read Harriets book, it is a wonderful source of

information...one of those, " So, that's how they do that!" kinda

things. Well worth having as a resource.

Hope this helps

Laura

texas_quilt.co@airmail.net

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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 22:37:13 -0400 (EDT)

From: @aol.com

To: qhl@cuenet.com

Subject: QHL: Old trapunto

Message-ID: <970822223711_-1000143177@emout17.mail.aol.com>

If you're planning to be in Florence, write ahead (or e-mail, if they're on

line) to the Bargello Museum (Museo Nazionale di Bargello) in Florence and

ask to see the Usella quilt. It's one of the famous Guicciardini wedding set

from the 1390's, and was donated to the Bargello by Countess Usella, a

descendant of the Guicciardini family, early in this century. She found it

being used as a blanket by her stable boy!

There are probably other examples of trapunto that haven't been publicized

yet. I'd look for churches and ask if they have any old vestments or altar

cloths on public display. There's also a museum of domestic life, the

Palazzo Davanzati, in Florence. They have a wonderful collection old lace

that's well worth the trip.

Good luck, and have a wonderful time!

Karen Evans

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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 20:37:21 -0700

From: Nancy Cameron Armstrong <narmstr@ibm.net>

Dear QHLers,

This last 6 weeks or so has been one problem after another, and one

result has been not much posting on QHL from nca. If I remember

correctly, several!!! issues ago, a member inquired about the source of

a quote: "My whole life is in that quilt. It scares me sometimes when I

look at it. All my joys and sorrows are stitched into those tiny pieces.

... I tremble sometimes when I remember what that quilt knows about me."

The complete passage appears on the final page of text (p.270) of

Marguerite Ickis's THE STANDARD BOOK OF QUILT MAKING AND COLLECTING (New

York: Greystone, 1949) and is attributed to "one great grand-mother back

in Ohio ... [a] kindly, ancient lady." May be another one of those

sentimental inventions, but THAT is the source for the quote. Hope

whomever was asking is still a subscriber!

Now ... my NEWS. At long last, embarrassing as it is to proclaim, the

JULY issue of COVER STORIES went in the mail yesterday. With any sort of

luck, most members will receive their issues before too long (maybe even

in August?!) I am already hard at work on the October issue and welcome

input.

Thanks to all members for their patience. If you are not a member (or

even if you are!)check us out at our new web site. We are going to have

pages for COVER STORIES (summaries of articles, and some sample

articles, and book reviews). We hope that many of you will like what you

find. Until later ... nca & webmistress Carolyn V. Peters

http://www.geocities.com/~cqsg/

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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 22:53:14 -0500

From: ShirleySpencer <ShirleySpencer@prodigy.net>

I think the idea of a pin is great and I like the idea of the

black-centered log cabin as kind of an inside joke, but I have to wonder

if we should encourage the story when it has not been documented in any

way. In fact, there might be some who, not knowing any better, would

consider it documentation of some sort. I imagine myself trying to

explain the meaning to others and can see it becoming rather

complicated. No offense meant here, just something I think we should

think about.

I have subscribed to this list since the beginning and I think it is the

best of all the online quilting groups. I had hoped to be in Omaha this

year attending the Quilt Restoration Conference, but will not be able to

make it. This will be the first I have missed and I'm really regretting

that I will not be there.

Shirley in Rockford, Illinois

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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 07:39:11 -0400 (EDT)

From: Baglady111@aol.com

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY, I will be on my way to NOVA SCOTIA..a long time dream

after seeing pictures of it from a long time member of THE FEEDSACK CLUB, ANN

COTTTENDEN..and I have many of you to thank for this dream come true because

of the MANY invitations to speak to your guilds. THANK YOU..now that you

have helped me with airfare..could we work on lunch money??? (teehee)

We are going to land in Halifax, drive up to PEI..how's the weather there

this time of the year?? What do I pack?? And is it best to have Canandian

money or ours??

Also, does anyone know if they have screen savers with cats on them?? it's a

gift..please email me privately on all info asked for..Jane of THE FEEDSACK

CLUB

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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 07:07:36 -0700

From: Frank & Inge Stocklin <stocklin@erols.com>

Thanks for the information about the American Folk Art Museum show

(Columbus Ave. between 65th & 66th right near Lincoln Center) and a great

restaurant near by with outside seating). I also found information about

"On the Cutting Edge: Comtemporaryu Quilts from the Collection" at the

American Craft Museum 40 W. 53rd St. Just remember that they are closed

on Mondays.

Inge

Web Page http://www.erols.com/stocklin/

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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 07:11:20 -0700

From: Frank & Inge Stocklin <stocklin@erols.com>

To: QHL@cuenet.com

Subject: QHL: Appraisal of slave quilt in NC

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I have a customer whose relative lives in NC (I realize this is a big

state) but is looking for a quilt appraiser for a slave quilt. It seems

the quilt was damaged and they are seeking a financial settlement. If

anyone can supply some further information please e-mail me privately.

Thanks Inge

web page: http://www.erols.com/stocklin/

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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 08:05:34 -0400

From: debatqps@juno.com

I had a customer call yesterday and say her daughter had bought a 1930s

quilt in perfect condition for $225 and had it appraised and it was

valued at $475. The daughter wants to hang it and the appraiser told her

that she would need to have the sleeves "fused" on, not with regular

fusable but with a special one, and that the quilt would need to be

turned every three months. Anyone know what kind of a fusible this lady

was talking about?

Debbie in NJ

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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 09:00:31 -0400

From: suewho@juno.com (Susanne Ellenberger)

To: Baglady111@aol.com

Cc: qhl@cuenet.com

Subject: Re: QHL: NOVA SCOTIA

Message-ID: <19970823.093723.3190.0.suewho@juno.com>

Jane,

How fortunate to have the opportunity to go to Nova Scotia. I am sure

the many people you will speak to will be just as facinated with your

topic as you are about Nova Scotia. Where else but quilting could you go

and do so many wonderful things and in turn really see the heartland of

our country. I will be anxious to hear about your experiences on the

net. Enjoy your trip!

Susanne Ellenberger

One Stitch At A Time :>)

In Ohio, where it has been cool and rainy and only in the 50's.

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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 06:56:12 -0700

From: Quilting Heritage ListServ <qrs@mail.albany.net>

I don't know what kind of fusing the appraiser was talking about, unless it

is FineFuse. That's my personal preference, but I am unclear as to why you

would recommend fusing rather than hand sewing. If the fabric is THAT

fragile, it shouldn't be hung! IMHO.

I see another topic here, too. Quilts very rarely sell for the appraised

price. The appraisers on the list can go into the reasons why, but it has

been my experience that if a quilt is appraised at $475, I am going to be

able to sell it for the vicinity of $250. Appraisals and selling price have

no relation in real life.

As long as I am ducking tomatoes <G>, I will make another comment. I have

no objection to us getting to know each other as people. I don't want to

turn this list into another QuiltBee, but the occasional comment or post

about our families and/or our lives is not a problem.

I have had a lot of votes on the "name" page

(http://www.HickoryHillQuilts.com/name.htm) and I am thinking of keeping

this. I'll post next week.

I've have also had a lot of comments on the idea of a cloisonne pin - can I

get some idea of how many people would want one? The cost will be $5. I

don't think a black centered log cabin would be a problem, we will just have

the other logs be solids so the joke remains private.

>I had a customer call yesterday and say her daughter had bought a 1930s

>quilt in perfect condition for $225 and had it appraised and it was

>valued at $475. The daughter wants to hang it and the appraiser told her

>that she would need to have the sleeves "fused" on, not with regular

>fusable but with a special one, and that the quilt would need to be

>turned every three months. Anyone know what kind of a fusible this lady

>was talking about?

>

>Debbie in NJ

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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 08:53:01 -0700

From: Nancy Cameron Armstrong <narmstr@ibm.net>

Dear QHLers,

Further to the postings about the Changi quilts ... two of which are

housed at the Australian War Memorial (Treloar Technology Centre,

Wed-Sun 11 am - 4pm) in Canberra and the third in a Red Cross center at

Barnett Hil, near Guildford, in England.

There are several other places where it is possible to read about these

most astounding and significant quilts. Margaret Rolfe, who is the

moving force behind the Quilt Study Group of Australia and also the

Editor of the QSGA newsletter has written about them several times. She

describes them as "two of the most precious quilts which form part of

Australia's quilt heritage." See Rolfe, Margaret. PATCHWORK QUILTS IN

AUSTRALIA. (Richmond: Greenhouse Publications, 1987) ... the culmination

of her 1981-1986 survey.

Most recently (as reported in the QSGA Newsletter and COVER STORIES, the

Newsletter of the Canadian Quilt Study Group) the QSGA raised $4,754 to

provide two marvelous state-of-the-art display cabinets for these quilts

so that they are now on display - seen easily but PROPERLY stored.

February 17, 1997 there was a small ceremony at the War Memorial and

Sheila Braun, a Changi internee, and Patricia Ennis, daughter of Changi

internee Elizabeth Ennis, were special guests at the ceremony.

The British quilt has also been written about "recently" by Bernice

Archer in Summer 1996 THE QUILTER incorporating QUILTERS' REVIEW.

(Archer is doing a PhD in History at Essex University.) The article has

color photos of nine of the blocks and a b/w photo of Changi Jail. I

have not seen the History Today article, as yet, but I expect that with

such a similar title - "A Patchwork perspective of internment" - the

author may be the same and the HT article expands on the two page one in

QUILTERS' REVIEW. A longer version of her paper was presented at the

International Oral History Conference in Sweden in June 1996.

QR appears twice a year as an insert in the The Quilters' Guild

quarterly. QR is an excellent source of quilt-related research on a

great variety of topics. CQSG and the The Quilters' Guild have an

exchange of newsletters and we are able to report regularly in COVER

STORIES on the information found in The Quilter and Quilters' Review.

nca in overcast (first rain since July 8!) White Rock, BC

http://www.geocities.com/~cqsg/

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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 16:33:44 0100

From: "Audrey Cameron" <audrey.cameron@virgin.net>

Hi,

Anybody going to the Great British Quilt Festival near Harrogate, England

in the Yorkshire Show grounds? I'll be there on Friday. It runs Thurs. to

Sun (Aug 28-31)

It will be a grand feast of displayed & juried quilts, vendors & special

activities.

Why not come!

Audrey Cameron in an an unusually warm & muggy England

audrey.cameron@virgin.net

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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 12:57:25 -0500

From: LAURA SYLER <texas_quilt.co@airmail.net>

debatqps@juno.com wrote:

>

> I had a customer call yesterday and say her daughter had bought a 1930s

> quilt in perfect condition for $225 and had it appraised and it was

> valued at $475. The daughter wants to hang it and the appraiser told her

> that she would need to have the sleeves "fused" on, not with regular

> fusable but with a special one, and that the quilt would need to be

> turned every three months. Anyone know what kind of a fusible this lady

> was talking about?

>

> Debbie in NJ

The appraiser is probably referring to the Fine Fuse that the Kirk

Collection carries....HOWEVER....

I would NOT fuse the sleeves. Alan,Jean,....

Don't you agree????That is too much stress on just the back of the

quilt. And even if it is just a top, the sleeve should be stitched thru

to the front of the quilt as well for support.

Who was the appraiser that said the sleeves should be

fused?????NO!!NO!!NO!!

(Can you tell I'm having a hard time sitting still for that one? I just

got home from teaching my restoration class...yet another binding job

for the quilt owner to jump into with much affection! Yeah!!)

Laura

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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 13:16:54 -0500

From: LAURA SYLER <texas_quilt.co@airmail.net>

Karen Erlandson wrote:

>

> Kris-

> count me in on the pin

> Karen

Me too!! Me Too <VVBG!>

Laura

Of L#1 & L#2 fame <G>

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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 14:10:30 -0400

From: "BONNIEBANKS" <BONNIEBANKS@prodigy.net>

Hi All,

First I want to thank you for responding to my request for political slide

help. I have received some good ideas, a loan of a quilt and names of

people to call for more help.

I also want to apologize for reprinting the digest. This is the first

digest for me and I didn't realize what I was doing. I annoyed myself,

even. In fact, I hope I did not do it again.

I have turned up a lot of information, in my reading, that I never even

considered much less knew about the feminism - quilting relationship. I

just read a book called <Quilt Culture - Tracing the Pattern> by Judy

Elsley and Cheryl B Torsney, eds. It is worth reading if only for the 22

pages of bibliography info. in the back. That shows just how much is being

written on quilts and related subjects. There is a lot of connection

between quilting and writing, current authors like Alice Walker, and Toni

Morrison and past - Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe....much and many

more.

Heather, I loved your posting. It seems that you might be a resource re

the sacrifices of the suffragists. You mentioned that you doubted they

would have had time to sew and esp. not in jail. A great deal of the

funding for the fight for the vote came from middle and upper middle class

women who may or may not have been in the streets. I don't know for sure

but I would expect that some of them may have declared their desire for

suffrage in their sewing as they did many of their other political

leanings. Also, I have seen some photos in the past, of suffrage quilts,

so I know that there are some out there.

I am betting that some of the historians on this list already know way more

than I will ever know about this subject. I will be adding slides and

information to the last minute, Sept. 20, so any mor information is happily

received.

Bonnie in Miami

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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 14:36:37 0000

From: "SuzyQ4U/MsuzyQ" <suzyhmkr@gibbon.imaxx.net>

To: QHL <QHL@cuenet.com>

I'd be interested in the pin, too...as a newcomer I don't understand

the black center though...is it too private to share with the

newcomers? Is so, that's ok. I'm enjoying the group and would still

like the pin.

Sue in IL

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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 14:58:09 -0500

From: LAURA SYLER <texas_quilt.co@airmail.net>

SuzyQ4U/MsuzyQ wrote:

>

> I'd be interested in the pin, too...as a newcomer I don't understand

> the black center though...is it too private to share with the

> newcomers? Is so, that's ok. I'm enjoying the group and would still

> like the pin.

> Sue in IL

Sue: it's in reference to all the fun and silliness that's been going on

here(and over several times, I might add) as to the significance of the

colors used in the centers of log cabin blocks and whether the black

centers in a log cabin quilt really denoted an underground RR stop and

if it could be documented. After many discussions as to quiltmakers

intent, intentional errors folklore and the such, we all kinda decided

that no one knows, no one can prove anything. It eventually became a

joke of sorts, and a reality that we as quilt historians often place too

much stock in the romanticism of quilt stories....No real "private"

joke, just a <G> every time you see a log cabin quilt. And another

QHLer!

Laura

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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 17:33:45 0000

From: "SuzyQ4U/MsuzyQ" <suzyhmkr@gibbon.imaxx.net>

I love it! Thanks so much for the explanation!

Sue in IL

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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 17:29:10 -0700

From: David Lewis <david@nodanw.demon.co.uk> (by way of Quilting Heritage ListServ <qrs@mail.albany.net>)

To: QHL@cuenet.com

Subject: Re: QHL: GBQF

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In message <19970823170606.AAA15148@audrey.cameron.virgin.net>, Audrey

Cameron <audrey.cameron@virgin.net> writes

>Hi,

>Anybody going to the Great British Quilt Festival near Harrogate, England

>in the Yorkshire Show grounds? I'll be there on Friday. It runs Thurs. to

>Sun (Aug 28-31)

>It will be a grand feast of displayed & juried quilts, vendors & special

>activities.

>Why not come!

>

>Audrey Cameron in an an unusually warm & muggy England

>audrey.cameron@virgin.net

>

Well, I'll be there, but on the Thursday. I choose Thursday because

traffic can be very heavy at teatime on Fridays.

---

Marie

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