tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-373996407183148608.post7322788852678236664..comments2024-03-11T06:44:18.577-07:00Comments on Wonkyworld: Mystery of an On-Point BeautyBill Volckeninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02212965199140126299noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-373996407183148608.post-83767881623825411032011-07-04T20:58:06.143-07:002011-07-04T20:58:06.143-07:00Hello:
I am going to be teaching a workshop based ...Hello:<br />I am going to be teaching a workshop based on the Mountain Mist New York Beauty quilt at the Benton County Museum on October 1st. Please check out their website for more info.<br />Eilene CrossEilene Crosshttp://www.thesamplerproject.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-373996407183148608.post-37353639229706329352010-10-18T07:52:43.936-07:002010-10-18T07:52:43.936-07:00Kathie - Glad you're enjoying the blog. If I c...Kathie - Glad you're enjoying the blog. If I can learn a little something about the Electric Quilt 7 program, I may include one or two patterns in the catalog for my show. Preferably the early, unpublished patterns - LOL. We'll see. I have a lot of grandiose ideas. Sometimes I even get some of 'em done. :)<br /><br />Gaye - Thank you for the recommendation. I have ordered the book, so now I'll have two resources, and I'll take any other recommendations you've got regarding books that'll help me piece together the history of published patterns. It's turning out to be an important tangent because of the way the world has adopted New York Beauty as the name of this quilt. The Quilt Index has several examples of quilts that were retroactively called New York Beauties. Unintended revisionist history, and somehow due to the impact of Mountain Mist and the effectiveness of their romanticized "historical" anecdotes published with the patterns. All this amazing scholarship over the last couple decades makes me glad Oregon is doing its doc project in 2010 rather than 1990. You'll probably laugh when you hear this, but I now have 26 examples of the "New York Beauty" pattern in my collection, but not one made from the Mountain Mist pattern. I grabbed the photo of the orange, yellow and white quilt from a dealer who'd had one for sale...but alas, it was already sold!<br /><br />One other tidbit- Betsey Telford has a Whig's Defeat quilt on her web site. She's had it for sale for years, and I considered buying it when I first met her about ten years ago, because I thought it related to the one red, white, and green "NYB" I had at the time. Have you seen the quilt?<br /><br />http://www.rockymountainquilts.com/files/antiquequilt_q1777.phpBill Volckeninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02212965199140126299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-373996407183148608.post-23927293586457596172010-10-18T03:00:21.256-07:002010-10-18T03:00:21.256-07:00beautiful quilts, the New York Beauty has always i...beautiful quilts, the New York Beauty has always intrigued me and intimidated me. After seeing your posts on this quilt I am very tempted to make one of my own.. Of course it will have to be in red, green and cheddar :) my favorite color combo! Would love to find a pattern that is a reproduction of an antique quilt.<br />I am learning a lot from your blog, keep it up!<br />Kathieantique quilterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15379983489980682690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-373996407183148608.post-28412530988757179342010-10-18T00:44:07.128-07:002010-10-18T00:44:07.128-07:00Oh Lord, WW, now there's TWO of us!!! Of cours...Oh Lord, WW, now there's TWO of us!!! Of course, I'm on a different pattern---with the Whigs Defeat, which is, I believe, a close cousin of Richmond Beauty (re NEW YORK BEAUTY: why not use that term when it is historically accurate---post Mountain Mist maybe?). <br /><br />You need to order THE Carrie Hall---"The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt." Many Easterners sneer at all these Midwestern folks who kept alive and still keep alive the pattern information and research. I personally glory in their work. Carrie Hall, Ms. Kretsinger----my first guides beyond what I'd seen with my own eyes. When BBrackman appeared on the scene, I thought the Resurrection was at hand. <br /><br />In my early twenties (that would be back in 1340), I literally spent hours poring over the first pages of Kretsinger & Hall's "Romance of..." B&W pics of the blocks and their names. I still have memorized the captions below the quilts, found in the second section. I don't think I would have been able to hang with the study of quilts had I not had this book---or I would have taken a very different path (Hmmm: maybe MADE more quilts myself! What an odd idea.)<br /><br />So glad to see this. Bless you.gaye ingramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17725964019337785550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-373996407183148608.post-26391536831695020562010-10-17T19:41:44.222-07:002010-10-17T19:41:44.222-07:00I'm just glad there's something to learn. ...I'm just glad there's something to learn. It will be good to include some information with the quilts when they're hanging in a museum, especially since so many are from unknown makers.Bill Volckeninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02212965199140126299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-373996407183148608.post-26212861513307016572010-10-17T15:24:54.568-07:002010-10-17T15:24:54.568-07:00I am enjoying learning with you. Excuse me while I...I am enjoying learning with you. Excuse me while I ride on your shirt tails. It's fascinating.lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13965043838288712362noreply@blogger.com