If anyone is interested, or knows of anyone, Please contact me for details.

Thank you,

Sara McNally

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:29:06 -0800

From: "Catherine Kypta" <vger@cwnet.com

You bet ya, I quilt, by hand, piece by hand and machine, do restoration,

appraisals, collect, buy and sell, give talks and demonstrations,  give a

class every year at the museum, buy way too many book, blocks, tops, quilts,

etc!!!!  Any never tire of antique quilts and textiles!

Catherine in Sacramento

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 07:48:04 -0500

From: Alan Kelchner <quiltfix@mail.jax.bellsouth.net

The question was "do you quilt?"  The answer is "Yes". But I don't do

traditional work as a rule. I love my collection, I love restoration,

etc. etc., but I hate making traditional quilts myself. I'm an artist by

schooling/lifelong work, so my quilting has gone to miniature

pictorials, and I do what I must to get the look I want.  That means I

use all sorts of NON-archival, NON-cotton stuff to make them ! <GASP> I

spent 5 hours on Sunday creating a fused applique for the latest work (a

tryptich) that is only 6x8. I'm a crazed fool.

But it wouldn't have been possible for me without the traditional work.

I learned to quilt in '76, picked it back up in '86, started restoring

by '89, and went "pro" 4-5 years ago. I think about this stuff

constantly.

Give up quilts? I'd rather give my first-born! (well, actually, you have

to *have* a first-born to give it up).

Alan

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 09:03:08 -0500

From: Merry May <cluesew@jerseycape.com>

I began collecting quilts after I made my first quilt.  At the time

(mid-1980s) I was able to get nice antique quilts for $25 at auction.

Decided they were worth MUCH more than that after making one of my own! 

--

Merry May  (a.k.a Inspector Cluesew & Jessica Four-Patch) 

Schoolhouse Enterprises

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 09:24:37 EST

From: JQuilt@aol.com

let's talk about applique that is sewn and applique that is glued/fused...

I really love appliqued quilts/wallhangings...both contemporary and

traditional...

but the glued-on applique  quilts...always look like a kindergarten

construction paper collage to me...

I know it's quick and easy to draw/trace a picture on to fusible paper.. then

cut out the pieces and press/glue them on to fabric...but for my taste the

look of hand appliqued fabric on fabric really adds a dimension to the

piece...adds to the tactile sense of fabric..

the only place I really like glued-on applique is making paper gift bags...

And of course I love the collages... done by artists Kurt Schwitters,Joseph

Cornell,

what do you think?

jean

jquilt@aol.com

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:19:21 -0500

From: "Lawrence  Mulvihill" <mulvihil@netcom.ca

I have been lurking on this list since Christmas, thoroughly enjoying

everyone's input and gleaning much information on old/antique quilts, etc.

I have been quilting for about 15 years and purchasing quilt tops and baby

quilts for about 4 years.  My major constraint is funds :) so I have given

myself limits.  The baby quilts have to be hand quilted and within a given

price.  My best 'find' was a large ziplock bag full of 4" squares of double

pink fabric and four patch blocks, enough to make a fair sized quilt for

$15.  Xenia Cord helped confirm my guess that they were from the 1880's.

There are some fantastic conversation prints in that bag and one day I will

make a quilt - but that's another story.  I also pick up lonely blocks as

well and one day with do something with them too - what I do need is more

'one-day's'.

I do quilt, some are hand-pieced and hand-quilted, some machine-pieced and

hand-quilted and some machine everything.  I won't tell you how many ufo's I

have but I do manage to finish projects.  Lunch hours at work are good times

to sit and stitch.

Brenda in sunny Montreal, Canada where it's almost spring.

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:43:43 -0000

From: "Jenni Dobson" <jenni@dobson4qu.freeserve.co.uk

Hi Alan especially! Re your enquiry about this maker. Not sure what

you've already had from Sally in Yorks.

Other thread makers existed, but when I began sewing seriously, I was

taught to use Sylko, which then came in 40 and 50 grades. This thread

was labelled 100% mercerised cotton (in one sequence or another). The

mercerising was partly what distinguished this thread from other cheaper

brands. If I recall correctly, mercerising was invented by John Mercer

to counteract the tendency of cotton to shrink & as a bonus makes a

cotton thread with quite a sheen to it. (& the term mercerising

incidentally is still one way to tell how well T-shirts will stand up to

washing!) The 50 was more highly spun & therefore finer & stronger & I

was taught to use this in preference to the 40. The 40 seems to have

been discontinued some time ago but though the Dewhurst name has gone

(firstly into English Sewing Cotton, then absorbed into Coats & Clark),

the Sylko brand name survives & it's still my favourite thread - my

machine runs well on it & it's great for hand-sewing also, e.g. hemming

down bindings. I buy basic colours in 1000 m reels.

Hope some of this added to what you'd already got.

Jenni in sunny, spring-like UK - but probably not after tomorrow! <G>

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