Posted in Serendipity, Travel, tagged Bulldog, family, jacket, painted jackets on May 16, 2023| Leave a Comment »
We had a terrific Mother’s Day weekend with my sister, Suzanne, and my niece, Alexis. We did lots of fun things while they were visiting but the most fun was painting these denim jackets with the Georgia Bulldog. They look great! Nice work girls. I know you will enjoy wearing these.
Posted in Travel, Art Class, Landscape, tagged Signal Knob, visitors on May 6, 2023| Leave a Comment »
My weekly art student, Dianne (on the left), always brings her out of town visitors to The Studio to paint a local view so that her guests will have a beautiful reminder of the trip. It’s not only the image but also the memory of painting together at The Studio that these guests enjoy. This friend, Agnes (on the right) is visiting from Paris, France. It was a delight working with her and she did an amazing job!
Posted in Quilting, Serendipity, Travel, tagged epic trip, Fabric acquisition road trip on March 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »
What more is there to say! We started with a 15 passenger van and 5 quilters. We spent 9 days traveling through 10 states covering 2723 miles and visited 31 quilt shops. It was a Fabric Acquisition Road Trip. Just look at my haul!!!! This will keep me busy for a little while. We spent about 7 months planning the journey . Our group was amazing and so much fun. Everyone was amiable and flexible so we added and left off some stops along the way. We fit in just as much as we possibly could. Some of you followed along with our adventure and watched as Wilma, Barbara, Katrina and Janet made our way through 10 states. And even our friend Denise who had to drop out at the last minute went with us in spirit. It was an epic trip! I can’t wait to see what everyone creates with their finds.
Posted in Quilting, Travel on March 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »
We left Paducah, after we spent some time at Hancock Fabrics, and traveled to Hurricane WV for the night and then back on the road heading home. We stopped at the largest quilt shop in West Virginia, Bolts and Quarters and then stopped at a quaint diner for lunch-Cool Springs Park. And finally made it home with a load of fabric and stories.
Posted in Quilting, Travel, tagged colors, Kaffe, National Quilt Museum, Quilting on March 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Here is the description of the Kaffe exhibit on the National Quilt Museum website: Kaffe-85 and Fabulous!
Kaffe Fassett reached a milestone birthday in December 2022 and this exhibition reflects his influence as a leading
textiles designer and practitioner of contemporary crafts.
Posted in Quilting, Travel on March 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »
We traveled from Branson on a terribly rainy day to Paducah but of course, we stopped at quilt shops along the way. And Denise, our friend who couldn’t go on the trip at the last minute, was still with us shopping along the way. 🙂 There was do much to see at the National Quilt Museum that it will take several posts to share it all.
Posted in Quilting, Travel on March 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »
On our trip from Hamilton to Branson we stopped at several more quilt shops ending with The Quilted Cow, a well known shop with a big presence on Facebook and a great online shop. They were so helpful and nice even giving us all a little gift. We were in Branson though mainly to go to the Branson Quilt Show. What fun to see so many shops in one place and to see the new products…machines and supplies. Of course, we did some good shopping there too!
Posted in Quilting, Serendipity, Sewing, Small Town Life, Travel, tagged Hamilton, Missouri Quilt Museum, museum, Quilts on March 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »
An unexpected and delightful surprise in Hamilton was the Missouri Quilt Museum located in an old multi-story school house. There were some amazing displays there from quilts to a machine collection and a miniature doll quilt collection. And the best part was the young man who was there to sell the tickets. His family runs the museum and he was a wealth of information. And he was thrilled to show us the quilt he had made. At 12 years old he is already on his way to be a terrific quilter.
Posted in Quilting, Serendipity, Sewing, Small Town Life, Travel, tagged fabric, Hamilton MO, Missouri Star Quilt Company, shopping on March 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »
We spent the day in Hamilton Missouri better known as Quilt Town USA due to the Missouri Star Quilt Company. Jenny Doan and her family started a small quilting business there 15 years ago that boomed into 12 shops and a very successful online business. Jenny does terrific YouTube instructional videos on quilting and has become a star in the quilting world. On the way to Hamilton we listened to Jenny’s autobiography – How to Stitch an American Dream: A Story of Family, Faith and the Power of Giving. It made the visit to Hamilton even more interesting knowing how it all started. The first thing we did was go on a tour of the warehouse to see how it all worked. So interesting to see, especially the 30 long arm quilting machines they use to quilt all the projects that are sent to them. They do about 500 a week! WOW!!! Even though it rained most of the day we still had a great job shopping the 12 MSQC along the street. There were 5 quilters on the trip and one of our friends couldn’t make it at the last minute so we took her along in spirit and had photo ops with her along the way. You see a photo of her here with Barbara checking out BLOCK magazine – a production of MSQC. Then we loaded up the van to go again.
Posted in Quilting, Sewing, Small Town Life, Travel, tagged fabric, Hamilton, Hannibal, Travel on March 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »
We made it!
We traveled from Hannibal to Hamilton Missouri….the destination that got this whole trip started. We stayed at a terrific AirBnB just one block from the Missouri Star Quilt Company in Quilt Town USA. This was the main destination of this crazy trip. Once we got to Hamilton, after stopping at 4 shops along the way that day, we took our purchases in and organized them in our totes. We figured that 5 shoppers and 9 days on the road would lead to many, many bags rolling around in the back in our van so we stored our purchases in totes to help keep it all straight. We were excited to finally be in Quilt Town USA and anxious for the shops to open and to tour the warehouse the next day.
The Studio 