My day already started 3 hours ago (and it's Saturday!!).
While waiting for the rest of the family to wake up, I'm playing around on the computer. And I've had it with facebook games so I thought of something else: how many of us can name tv series or movies in which quilts are featured; they don't necessarily have to be the theme or even mentioned at all; just that there are quilts visible.
Here's some I've come up with
Army Wives (tv series) How to Make an American Quilt (movie) Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (movie)
In her book, How Not to Make a Prize Winning Quilt, Ami Simms tells about watching reruns of the Mary Tyler Moore show and seeing a quilt on Rhoda & Joe's bed that she immediately sketched and planned to recreate. There is a picture of it in the book, I think.
Our DVR is set to record anything with the word "quilt" in the description. Antiques Roadshow occasionally appraises a quilt. Reba made a quilt for her grandchild. Others also have stories worked around quilts but I can't think of any right now. If others appear I will try to notify the group although by the time I notice the recording the show has long been shown. My new camera takes a decent photograph of a paused TV program. Guess I should always keep my camera handy, pause and photograph any sightings.
I did wave out the window & say "Howdy, RCTQers!" (Gene's used to it.)
It was a nice trip from Osceola, Iowa, over to Princeton, Il. along Rt.34. Beautiful drive. We stopped in Bishop Hill (thanks for the heads up, Nann)
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the first thing I spotted was the quilt shop. Then we dropped bythe Bakery. Lovely little village; esp. beautiful right now w/ the glowingfoliage. And more quilts. In Princeton, Old Times Quilters Heaven is still crowded w/ fabric; their sale tables yielded some great bargains, $1, $2, $3 per yard (no good fabric goes to waste).
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've got fabric going back for years (decades); they haven't raised theprices on the older bolts, so there are many good deals here.And they have the original Jinny Beyer collection on the shelves!! It looksto be in good condition, too. Another quilt spotting was at Log Cabin Quilt shop in Lincoln, Il. Appropriate name for a quilt shop in this little city.
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clerk working that day is a former art teacher from the high school;perfect follow-up to her first career. After that, a load of wine from Alto Vineyards & a couple of bushels of Illinois apples joined the pkgs from the quilt shops; it was a good vacation. ;-)
Ragm> Hey! Where in Eastern Iowa were you? You weren't far from Kathyl or me
Glad you discovered Old Times Quilters Heaven. It is truly a unique place. It is the one place you can find the little extra bit of fabric to match the leftovers in your stash. I am sure there is fabric in the shop from 1970's because last time I was there maybe two years ago I found some bicentennial fabric from 1976! But they keep getting the new stuff. I can't remember that they had a sales area. That might be something new. Where was the sales fabric in the store? Maybe it is time for another field trip.
And thanks to both of you for mentioning Bishop Hill! Mom was talking about someplace she and her husband had been in Illinois that was a Swedish or Norwegian community, but she couldn't remember the name. All she could remember was that it was on their way to Kewanee.
I called and asked if it might have been Bishop Hill and yep, that was it! So thanks for clearing up that mystery.
We drove through L> Glad you discovered Old Times Quilters Heaven. It is truly a unique
I've been a fan of Old Times Q.H. for more than 10 yrs. They've organized & cleaned it up some since last year; The Lacery is now in the front, north-side corner of the shop. The amount of fabric is truly amazing. New stuff, too. When I was a little kid the building was a hotel & coffee shop; we used to go there for a snack, & always took a pkg of M&Ms home with us. ;-) It's about 4 blocks from our old house, so I'm rather fond of the idea of shopping there. The train station is across the street, another place we hung around, watched the dinner train come in from Chicago on its way to Des Moines.
Back to the big quilt: a couple of lovely people at church started a community garden project in the back acreage; it's been a huge success. I rootled lots of garden, farming, veggie, fruit, birds & butterflies fabric from my stash for a big, scrappy quilt for these precious people.
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