1. Home
  2. Quilting Forum
  3. Quilt Exhibit at Illinois State Museum

Quilt Exhibit at Illinois State Museum

I was in Springfield, IL, this past Thursday for Library Legislative Day. Between lunch and the bus's departure there was some free time so I went to the Illinois State Museum at the south edge of the Capitol complex. Was I glad I did!

"Gifted Quilts" is the current special exhibition:

formatting link
are 30+/- in the exhibit, not overwhelming, and representthe mid-19th century to today. The three "mosaic" quilts by Albert Small of Ottawa, IL, are mounted side by side in the exhibit.
formatting link
cut the hexagons smaller for #2 and even smaller for #3 --in #3, he got 6,000 hexes from a yard of fabric! (In those daysit would have been 36" wide.) If you plan to travel downstate, it's worth stopping. (And if you haven't been to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, there's another good reason to visit Spfld.)

Nann in Winthrop Harbor, IL

Reply to
Nann Hilyard
Loading thread data ...

exhibition:

formatting link
There are 30+/- in the exhibit, not overwhelming, and represent> the mid-19th century to today.>

exhibit.http://www.quiltindex.org/results.phphttp://www.pbs.org/americaquilts/century/time/albert_small.html> He cut the hexagons smaller for #2 and even smaller for #3 --> in #3, he got 6,000 hexes from a yard of fabric! (In those days> it would have been 36" wide.)>

thanks for sharing marina in Rome

formatting link

Reply to
marina

InspirePoint website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.