Thank- you so very much. I'll give it a try :lol:

Glad I could help, Omak! In fact, it was just this last summer when I visited my sisters in Montana that I learned about Chronicle quilts. I feel blessed that I can visit Montana each summer and that I've gottne to know Jane and the staff at Quilting In The Country. The annual quilt show Jane and Bill used to do was awesome!

To be able to go from Minnesota to Montana every year ... THAT! Must be a wonderful experience.
A couple of years ago, I traveled from here to North Carolina by train. I had a cell phone that I kept in contact with family on the ranch ... when we were going through Minnesota ... I called home and told Joe "I could live here!"
although, <g> I really do like where I am! LOL

I have a quilt made by my grandmother and great grandmother with a foundation of newspaper, and I remember clearly my grandmother saving papers and cutting shapes to stitch "strings" to.
some were triangles, some squares. I'm not sure if the paper is still on there or not. but it doesn't rustle at all.

Sometimes, today's "archivally correct" processes puzzle me, when I see that something has lasted for DECADES in the Eastern part of the USA and is still readable and usable ... I am not sure, but I always have thought the the east part of the USA is humid ... humid in western states means "everything rots" ... but, the East has so many antiques and good stuff that has last historically for HUNDREDS of years!
I don't get it!
But, I am glad that you have the newspaper quilt experience, Tippy <wave>

Here in Ohio we are really humid in the summer and in the winter very dry. It evens out I guess but I hate high humidity.LOL

humid in summer, dry in winter ... hmmm ... I don't think I have ever lived in country like that! Hmmm.... so .... what is the average temperature there in the summer? Ohio ... part of you is very close to one of the great lakes?
Of course, I could go look at it on a map, but .... that would be too easy!

I am 58 and I can remember my mother using pages out of the Sears Robuck catalog to paper piece her strings. Some strings would be no larger than 3/4". She had to make enough quilts to keep 8 kids warm, couldn't waste any scraps.

ROFLOL.. we used the Sears Roebuck catalog for an ENTIRELY different purpose at my grandmothers... just be sure to use the non-shiny pages and crumple them several times before use... a lesson we learned early on. We called those the "Roebuck" pages as the family name was Sears.. and that just didn't seem right...<giggle>

In 1973, I was living in Idaho, working a dairy.
Toilet paper was declared to be in shortage, and my boss' wife and daughter started running to town to buy toilet paper in BULK!
In a time when you didn't get a catalog unless you ordered from a company, these women had every catalog known to the free nation! I asked them what their problem was ... they couldn't have bought enough TP to equal what they had sitting around their houses!
Heck! We even had an outhouse sitting out back next to the garden ... I thought they would know how to "survive" ... they looked at me like I had three heads and headed BACK to town to buy MORE toilet paper!
We had just gone through all the "terror" of gas shortage, I would have thought that anyone could have understood how they were being manipulated .. but ... no such luck! LOL