Stitching the pieces together
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Ah, yes indeed! I blew it though, with Baby Whoo's quilt I bought a coulpe of fat quarters in pink. Now that I want to use it for more, I can't find the fabric. There was no selvage on the fat quarters.
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Oh, Ginger - no apologies necessary!!!
I didn't take it personally at all. I know that Walmart is guilty of many things.... and I also have friends that will never, ever walk through the door of a Walmart for those reasons.
I understood perfectly - and agreed with - your concerns.
I love the idea of finding fabrics at thrift stores... I've seen them there in my favorite little thrift store run by Hospice.
In fact, many many years ago, my Grandma, who had very little money herself, would get on the bus and go to downtown Louisville, Kentucky, to get blankets at thrift stores. Sometimes she'd also get fabric, if she was lucky.
Then she would go home and make quilts (using the blankets as batting) - and she hand quilted them, mind you - for the "poor people" who lived around her. You can bet that everyone in her poor little neighborhood loved her and watched out for her.
Anyway, please do vent away about the things that are important to you! You did not hurt me in any way, so stop worrying...
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo
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Barbe - well BOO on FabricLand for affecting your business!!!
The one thing you will never, ever get at a cut-rate establishment is the personal experience and assistance and expertise from those in smaller, locally-owned shops.I am VERY familiar with fat quarters! In fact, if I have any kind of stash at all, it's in fat quarters....pretty fabrics for not much money. In fact, I have some that I've refused to use on a project just because I liked it so much and feared I'd never find another one just like it.
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Okay Blessings, all is good.
After my Grandma left the farm she worked in a clothing factory in Hopkinsville KY. They made lots of the Sears brushed denim jeans. My Gma made the belt loops. She and my Great Aunt were able to bring home certain kinds of scrap and they made quilt tops for a childrens home with them. They had a quilt frame, just four boards tied up to hooks on the ceiling by long salvedge edges. They didn't have money for hobbies like we do now but certainly knew how to support the communuty with what they had. She was just the nicest person ever. I have always hoped to be just like her.
Love Ginger
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I only had 5 staff, but they would often come in on their days off. My customers were used to saying "Who's on the payroll today to ring me up?". That made me feel great!! It was a wonderful experience and I was never closer to women until this forum.
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You had a community there Barbe, and we all need that. They must have really liked and respected you to stop in on their days off. You had the ki nd of store that people will be writing about in their memoires. (sp)
Hugs Ginger
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Thanks Ginger!0
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We are heading North to the Bay area for my birthday this weekend. DH is trying to make points with me and he emailed me a link for a quilt museum up in that area. He wants to know if I'd like to go there! Anybody know about it? It's the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles.
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Meece That museum is on my bucket list! Please go and report for all of us.
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Do you think 3 hours is enough time? DH isn't the museum type and I am not sure I could ask his to be patient any longer.
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Meece, I've never been there, but I would think an hour or l.5 hrs would be enough. I'm not a museum person either. I can go through natural history museums in 5 minutes flat! I hope someone who has been there will jump in and give you her experience. Jan
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I am a person who will read as many signs and labels in a museum, DH on the other hand just looks at the items. He's rarely interested in the trivial information about the stuff.
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Meece - I love to go to museums! i get wrapped up in the details of items. And at any type of art or craft museum I get lost in all the details of the artist's work. I can spend hours and hours in a small museum that my DH goes through in a few minutes. He just does not get it. I grew up going to all kinds of museums and enjoyed the time I got to spend with my mother while we were there. It was one of the few things we could do that did not cost us anything and there were so many fascinating things to see. Now just about all of them charge admission. Have fun on your trip and let us know how the museum is. I have never heard of that one and would like to know more about it.
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My father and I are alike, we enjoy all the details. My mother and DH are a like and when they have seen it, they're done with it.
I grew up going to museums, but I must have walked with my father.
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So today's the day. We are going to the museum. I just hope DH can enjoy it. I was impressed by him yesterday though. We went to Winchester Mystery house and he made note of two of the quilts on display, and stated he liked one in particular. That's a start...
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Baby steps, Meece, it'll happen!!
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Okay, my report...
It is easy to find, it is probably a former dimestore or the like. I'm going to take a a guess and say it may be 2000 sq ft.
We parked right in front and put 4 quarters in the meter. We figured we'd come back out and put more in if needed. We bought ourselves one hour to start.
We went in and the entry had little paper puppets on a stick made by children of visitors and a table with an employee sitting at it ready to take our $8 per person to go in. You walk past the "ticket" table and you are in a gift store with various table runners, prints, jewelry, books and baubles. The hallway towards the museum had several pieces of indian and middle eastern embroidery work. I began reading the placard next to one and DH suggested we go into the museum and if we have time when we come out I could read it.
We enter the museum, and the first room was probably 30' by 30' and the walls had various example of Indian/middle eastern embroidery pieces. There were bull covers, bridal pieces, groom bags, animal covers. They were embroidered and had the little mirrors worked in them.
Second room was about the same size and had different midle eastern applique and embroidery techniques. Note every piece had a plaque with it, and the plaques were vague. Some, very few, had a century associated with it, and of those most were 19th century. The artifacts were all hung on the walls so you can imagine the amount of displayed textiles. The whole Folkart of India collection claimed to have 50 pieces.
The third room was the "meditation" room. In it, three women sat at a table chatting loudly (you could hear their conversations throughout the three "rooms". There were current pieces of "clothwork" in little bitty frames all hung at eyelevel. Three strips of shiney fabric swagged from ceiling to the ground.
We left the museum rooms and there was a side room with quilts in it. Whew! the room had twelve quilts, beautifully pieced, all of them wall hangings. I was disappointed to see that they were all machine quilted. BUT just in case I was interested, they were all for sale. Only the price and name of the quilt was listed.
Don't get me wrong, I think machine quilting has it's place but I was disappointed that the museum had no historical quilts, no displays of fabric making or manufacturing, not even a display of an old quilting frame or such.
I read all of the plaques, viewed all of the displays, slowly browsed the gift shop and still had 27 minutes on the meter when we got back out to the car.
The following is a quote from thier website:
The permanent collection of the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is comprised of 850 textiles, including historic quilts, contemporary art quilts, and textile-based art forms, as well as costumes and garments from world cultures. Formed in 1977, the Museum’s collection has gained distinction for its’ unique art and material culture collection both locally and nationally. An indexed library of reference books and related periodicals, available to researchers by appointment, also supports the permanent collection.
Something has to be wrong! So disappointed!
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Oh Meece, So Sorry!!! Well, now we all know to skip this museum. I hope the rest of your weekend makes up for this disappointment. Jan
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Here are my quilt blocks. I fixed the off corner on the bear paw one. Ready to cut out and learn sashing, borders, corner squares Monday.
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I visited a museum in Tucson that had old South American textiles displayed. They had taken close up photos so you could see how it was woven. Wonderful display.
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I know Paducah, KY has a lot of quilt lore. My SIL lives there. Love quilts but know I will never sew one so never investigated on our infreq. trips there. Meece, I know that is a haul from CA but in case you ever go that way. You all may have already talked about this.
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I am not down on all quilt museums, I would go to others if given the opportunity. DH took a couple of pics on his phone before he saw the sign about no pics. (Not to worry he didn't use flash). Anyway, I checked them out again to see if I was over reacting to what was there...I wasn't.
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I've been lucky enough to have been to Paducah twice. That quilt museum is beyond spectacular! I sometimes think I'm a pretty good quilter, but I'm humbled by the quilts on display. I don't think a person needs to be a quilter to appreciate the creativity.
And if you love fabric, there is Hancock's of Paducah, which has to be the largest quilt fabric store anywhere. The last time we were there, we took a large shopping cart (like those at supermarkets) at the door, and soon had to go back and get another. And it was with great restraint that I didn't buy more.
If I live long enough, I'd sure like to go to one of Paducah's quilt shows. On the bucket list, for sure.
Celebrate quilts, Jan
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Melissa, I LOVE the yellow and bright orangey red you have in your quilt!! Such a HAPPY collection!! A lot of women are afraid to use yellow so I use yellow and orange a LOT! I get a lot of ribbons, too! hehehehhee There is even a book titled something like "Yes, you CAN put yellow in your quilt". Well done!
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I love yellow. Next time I will plan a little better where there is more contrast than against white. I actually changed out the squares on the bear claw to the print because I used yellow and they didn't show up very well. (Which might have been a good thing, on second thought, because I had the hardest time getting that square to match up on corners. I think it was from before I got the new cutter & foot)
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Jan, YES The National Quilt Museum at Paducah KY is a treasure! My Dad's side of the family is from Paducah and the area. I have been to the quilt museum several times and am always fascinated by the scope and depth of their collection. Their special shows are also well worth while. I have always been there during an off time so there is time to sit on the floor and enjoy the quilts. I don't know the sq footage of the museum but it is good size and the quilts are beautifully displayed.
One of my cousins used to rent her townhouse out to a quilters group fromout of town for the quilt show. In return they made her a beautiful quilt to hang on the wall.
I have a Hancoks Of Paducah fabric catalogue sitting nearby. Their online catalogue is very good and their selection wonderful. You can also get a decent price on notions and scissors depending on where you usually shop. It has been a number of years now since I have been down but Hancocks was always on my way out of town itinerary. Do stop by.
Two of my favorite places on earth.
Ginger
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Ginger - Like I said I'm not a quilter but I was drooling over their online catalog. Thanks. I will put it in my bookmarks.
I actually tripped over a Hancocks yesterday. Never see them, just Joanns which was oddly enough 2 doors down. Just googled them and that is the only store in the immed. Ft. Worth area. Guess us on the west/NW side of the metroplex don't sew enough.
Thanks again for the neat catalog idea. Wishing I had visited the quilt musuem the last time we were in Paducah.
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Luvmygoats - If I understand your message above, you found a Hancock's yesterday. Regular Hancocks is a chain, not too different from Joanns. Hancocks of Paducah is one gigantic store and not part of the chain. H of P carries only top quality quilting fabric, plus a large assortment of quilting tools, etc. I'm drooling just thinking about that store. Jan
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Jan - No I didn't realize it wasn't part of the chain. Just thought it was a specialized store because of the city. I did bookmark the Paducah store like you to drool over.
My SIL does (or at least did) quilt. Doesn't like to piece but quilts for others.
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