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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:52:18 -0500

From: Mary Waller <mswaller@iw.net

About 20 QHL'ers e-'d me for Yvonne Hollenbeck's poem, 'Ode to

Smithsonian' about the imported Chinese quilts, and several have

responded how much they enjoyed it.  Please let Yvonne know that; her

e-mail address is:  geetwo@gwtc.net

Yvonne is also a master quilter and has printed some of her poems in a

small book, which she sells.  She's also got one about four generations

of quilters in her family and the hardships they faced homesteading.

It's a thought-provoking tear-jerker, which I cannot remember the title

of!

Yvonne also travels to perform her poems cowboy-poet style and show her

quilts.  I don't know what quilt classes she's currently doing.  If

you're looking for an entertaining speaker/teacher, please consider

her.  If you can tune into South Dakota Public TV this Saturday at 4 pm

CT/3 MT, she'll be on their quilting fund raiser with 'America Quilts'.

Thanks for your interest!

Mary Waller, Vermillion, South Dakota

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:48:23 EDT

From: MKowale193@aol.com

To all..

I would like to announce that my personal collection

will be sold at auction on September 25, 1999.

Most of the items that I kept all these years were

bought in the 70's.  To be offered for sale will be

a few full size quilts, crib quilts, and doll quilts, fabrics,

homespun, old potholders, Amish wedding socks, rag dolls,

fabric birds, fabric covered books, fabric dogs and cats,

pincushions, velvet fruit, Amish wedding patches, folk art,

and furniture and many other items. Just about everything that is being

offered was found in either Lancaster or Berks County, Pa.

To see highlights of the sale go to

http://members.aol.com/mkowale193/page/index.htm

ale to be held at Horst Auction Center  Ephrata, Pa.

Marilyn Kowaleski

email  http://www.mkowale193@aol.com

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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:26:45 -0500

From: "Peggy McBride" <jlmpam@netins.net

Over the years I have collected a lot of old quilting paper.  Have most of

the magazines in my collection.  I had forgotten about a couple things that

I have that I hadn't thought about for awhile.

One is Tumbling Alley Notebook - got some copies of early ones recently and

reminded me again.  Can anyone tell me about this.  I have issues 7-36.  How

much longer after issue 36 did they continue to publish.  I would like to

complete my set, even with copies (I would assume the copyright may be run

out by now.)  At any rate I would like more information about the

publication.

The other is the Dutch Girl Scrap Book - have a number of copies of these

and again would like to complete the set.  Can anyone tell me any more about

these publications.

Peggy Mc

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Date:   Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:08:16 -1000

From: "Laurie Woodard" <lwoodard@hawaii.edu>

To: "QHL-DIGEST" <QHL@cuenet.com>

Just wanted to mention that Hawaiian quilts also are very much part of this

phenomena. With handmade, locally-made, Hawaiian applique quilts priced in

the $2,000-$7,000 range, it's not too surprising that there is a ready

market here for traditional Hawaiian applique quilts, made in the

Philippines and Thailand, which sell for maybe $800-$1,200. The quality of

workmanship is steadily improving (and the prices rising accordingly).

Frequently, the clue that these are not locally made is that they are

advertised as *Hawaiian style.*

The designs themselves may be designs in the public domain (they are popular

designs that have been around for a long time, etc.). The Reido Brandon,

et.al. *Hawaiian Quilt* book often serves as a catalog for quilt designs.

These are quilts from local museum collections: some of the designs are

available elsewhere (what I'm calling *public domain*) while others are

unique. Unfortunately, the second half of the catalog features quilts by

contemporary Hawaiian quilters and their designs are also offered for sale

without their permission or compensation. The most recent import quilts are

showing original designs, some of which are quite nice.

These quilts are not always labeled as to origin, or they are packaged and

the tag is hidden. They are available in all the *best* gift shops as well

as in the discount stores. Can't remember how they are bound. Anyway, more

fun for the antiques dealers and appraisers!

By the way, those "Old Hawaiian Quilt Stencils" currently for sale on eBay

are contemporary and are used as craft stencils to paint designs on fabrics.

They aren't used in "traditional" Hawaiian quilting as quilt stencils in the

sense of providing a template for quilting patterns. Contemporary quilters,

of course, may decide to do just that, right?

--

Laurie Woodard

Researcher

Hawaiian Quilt Research Project

http://openstudio.hawaii.edu/hqrp/default.html

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A few weeks back I had written this list about the great applique album

quilt I purchased which needs cleaning. I think the best route will be to

have it professionally cleaned by someone who has a bath large enough to

soak the quilt flat (this one is more than 100" square). If you know of

anyone who has such equipment and offers this service, please let me know.

I'm in PA, but can always ship, so location is not an issue. Thanks.

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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 07:34:47 -0400

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

To: ".Quilt Heritage List" <qhl@cuenet.com>

Subject: QHL: Hoaxes/Netiquette - no flames in here!

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Well, in my book forwards AREN'T bad etiquette as long as their not

offensive (smut/racism/etc). In terms of hoaxes, those forwards are

often honest, earnest, benign ignorance of the virtual "real" world

<g>.  Other forwards are often quite interesting.  If you get something

like this, go to

and check it for the current (and not so current) hoaxes. One listed is

a variation of the one Maury sent, only it's that Bill Gates will send

you 5 bucks to try his system in an attempt to beat out AOL <G>. Any

time you get an email that says someone can track the email, delete it.

It ain't so. And if/when it becomes so, I'm taking a hammer to the

computer.

Alan

who never gives his real email address in websites that ask for it and

had no spam.  The last fake address I left was notreal@bogus.com (this

was for a freeware web accelerator that didn't do anything appreciable).

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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 07:39:43 -0400

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

To: ".Quilt Heritage List" <qhl@cuenet.com>

Subject: QHL: cutting imports

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Is it just me, or are any of you disturbed by the thought of people

making imports into thing? This is not an extremist view that no quilt

should ever become a teddy bear.  What bothers me is that if we "push"

this, I keep having visions of people who can't identify them properly

buying something "authentic" (for lack of a better word) and cutting

them.  That or the person just starts cutting up any quilt

indiscriminately. I know that people are going to use quilts for

cutters, but must we  endorse it?

Alan

the worry wart

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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:12:51 -0500

From: "Ann G. Hubbard" <ahubbard@usmo.com>

To: <QHL@cuenet.com>

Subject: QHL: quilt shops

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