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We went to the Durham Orange Quilters Guild's "The Threads That Bind Us" show a couple of weeks ago.  Mark and I had planned to go to Asheville, NC on September 26th or 27th, so that I could go to the local, highly-recommended quilt show.  Mark, his father, and I were driving back from Fredericksburg, Texas when the alternator on the car went out.  (Image Credit: Mark Young)
Attending the Smoky Mountain Quilters Show in Knoxville allowed me to see a large number of impressive art quilts.  Not surprisingly, I'd found a quilt show to attend while Mark and I were in Knoxville, Tennessee last week.  I am always amazed when I visit the Upcountry History Museum in Greenville, South Carolina.  It's almost time to get tickets to go to the 2024 Pacific International Quilt Festival, and last year's quilts still deserve attention.  I had heard that the Virginia Quilt Museum has a current exhibit about quilting during the Civil War.  Shortly after we moved to North Carolina two years ago, Mark and I headed to Greensboro, the next bigger town about 25 miles away, to a bi-annual "vintage" fair.  "Modernism" has really taken over a segment of quilting; in fact there is an annual national show of "modern" quilts, which will be in Raleigh next year.  We are selling the house that we had planned to remodel into our "permanent" home, so Mark has been extra busy since we returned from San Francisco.  I've realized that I usually lead with a group of pictorial quilts when I've been at a big show.  We started our Bay Area vacation yesterday at Eats on Clement Street.  Image Credit: www.eatsrestaurantsf.com
We came to San Francisco because we still have a timeshare here, and to visit a multi-day quilt exhibit in Santa Clara.  Members of the "stadium" quilt guild that I belong to trekked to the northwest corner of the state last week to quilt in a lovely mountain lodge, located in Valle Crucis, N.C.  I headed out in the fog/steam yesterday morning for a day of travel through the western edge of North Carolina's Piedmont region.  Image Credit: https://www.blueridgeheritage.com
Smithsonian Magazine! When I saw this month's cover article about quilt artist Bisa Butler, I couldn't wait . . .  |
