So, last Tuesday, a week ago, I had gotten tickets to tour the Missouri Star Warehouse in Hamilton. I had 4 tickets, so David and I met my Mom and Dad there. It was an hour long tour and was amazing, but you couldn't take any photos! We saw the shipping area with all the boxes, the cool automatic box taper, the conveyor belts, and then moved on to the cutting area where they cut all the yardage orders. Each worker cuts like 200+ orders a day, and they only have to change their rotary blades once a week! I'd like to get that kind of action from a rotary blade. And they gave each of us a bundle of fabric! It was pieces from the ends of bolts. Each bundle had 2 large pieces of 108" backing fabric and then 2 smaller pieces, one of a white and one black. So, all 4 of us walked out with a bundle of fabric. Then we went to the quilting room...............30 longarm quilting machines, 3 per worker, and each machine does 2 quilts per shift and there are 2 shifts, so that's 120 quilts a day! David kept pointing things out to me and saying, that's just like you do it, or that's like you have yours set up. And we saw the racks and racks and racks of quilts on hangers waiting to be quilted! They even overflowed into the next area! Then we got to see the machines that cut and etch all the templates. David was particularly interested in these. We were allowed to ask lots of questions and they were so nice to answer all of them. It was definitely worth the price of admission (btw, the tickets were free).
In the afternoon, David and I also visited the Missouri Quilt Museum. It is housed in the old schoolhouse and is not a part of Missouri Star, but they do support it. It was amazing and full of interesting things. I took so many photos that I will divide them into different posts. There was a room of Jenny Doan's (Missouri Star) quilts. These were all star quilts.
A close up of some of the names..............
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