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We were at a museum in northwest Virginia for a few days last week, and I was surprised by what drew my attention the most: a "Contemporary Embroidery" exhibit.  In case you wanted to keep track, this is the fourth presidential library and museum we have visited and blogged about. Not that we like museums . . .  I had been looking at exhibits for several hours here before the first group of students arrived on a field trip.  The Virginia Quilt Museum has relocated to a former barn in the Silver Lake Historic District, near Harrisonburg, Virginia.   Not yet realizing that we had found Elmo, Virginia, while looking for Waldo, we got out and started wandering around.  Surprise! I know it has been quite some time since I last posted, but life can get in the way of travel.  I had heard that the Virginia Quilt Museum has a current exhibit about quilting during the Civil War.  Even though Virginia is hardly an hour away from our house, we haven't seen much of it until recently.  It was a beautiful day with huge cloud formations and blue sky in between. It was also quite warm and muggy, but it is North Carolina, so you would be surprised if it weren't. We were doing one of our favorite things: Cheri had the atlas in her lap and I had the steering wheel in my hands.  I kept a couple of the quilts from the exhibit that we attended yesterday for a separate post, as they deserve close attention.  We traveled about an hour and a half today, to Martinsville, Virginia, to see three quilting exhibits at the Piedmont Arts Center.   We didn't get to spend much time in Phoebus, which is now a part of Hampton, and will definitely be going back to see more.
The commercial portion of Phoebus seems to be primarily a hipster hangout now, but the location has a substantial and important history. Just a little bit from Wikipedia: The Maritime Museum in Newport News, Virginia is simply fascinating.  The Museum has everything from miniature carved ships, such as the Crabtree collection. Also what could be considered miniature ships that are more than 10 feet in length.
We camped about 100 yards from the Chesapeake Bay, at the Fort Monroe National Park, listening to the wind and rain on the roof of our trailer. While Cheri attended the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival in Hampton Roads I also saw a quilt, albeit in a slightly different setting.  |
