Following our stop at the tractor museum, we headed on to Paducah, Kentucky. After a quick stop at Hancock's of Paducah............
All that fabric and it was a relatively short stop! We went to the National Quilt Museum.
This was the first quilt we saw and it was quilted by Shelly, who I know and she lives right in Missouri!
Then I took photos of some of my favorites.........
Can you believe this is really a quilt and not a picture!
And this one was hand quilted!
I liked the quilting on this one as well.
One of the special exhibits was of star quilts from the museum collection. I have always been drawn to star quilts, so photographed my favorites.
And just so you can appreciate my hubby's quilt knowledge and vocab, he commented on the stippling on the above quilt!
Then there was a special exhibit of quilts about/from Australia...........
Most of these were a little "too" different for David, but I snapped a few photos. And then there were more star quilts.........
And a few others that I enjoyed..........
Someday, I want to make a tumbling blocks quilt, just maybe not one so advanced!
They also had small quilts from a contest on display. The contest was about William Shakespeare. I really enjoyed these (English teacher), but spent so much time reading and looking that I didn't take any photos. There were sonnets, and different plays including Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Romeo and Julie, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and more. I really enjoyed this, but David wasn't as into it as I was.
And I had to point this display out to him. It looks like a quilt, right? But it's made from wood. It's carved and painted to look like a quilt!
Of course, he didn't believe me and had to TOUCH it! Fortunately, no one saw him.
More vacation photos and stories to come!Christi
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