We set out this morning for the National Quilt Museum, but detoured along the way. First we went to Bryerpatch Studio, which is where Caryl Bryer Fallert creates her art quilts. Most art quilts are unknown territory to me, but Fallert uses color so well that I enjoy looking at them. She was there and invited us up to her studio which is on the second floor of a wonderful old brick home. She showed us quilts in progress and told us of her plans for an exhibit at the Houston Quilt Festival next year. She has some lovely graduated color fabrics available.
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| Caryl Bryer Fallert |
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| A Fallert "wing" quilt |
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| An art quilt I like |
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Walking up to the
National Quilt Museum |
From Bryerpatch we walked to the National Quilt Museum. Starting to be a little humid today, the first "sticky" day of our trip. Unfortunately you cannot take pictures inside the museum, so I won't be able to show any of the fantastic quilts inside. A little about it though: Divided into three sections, the major gallery is quilts owned by the museum. Among others are most of the winners of the Paducah Quilt Show from the earliest show to last year's winner. The hand-quilted quilts have such tiny stitches that they are almost impossible to see, and the miniature quilts make me want to do one, as they are tiny gems. I'm not sure I like the density of the quilting that is on the most recent winners, which makes bed sized quilts too stiff for anything but wall hangings.
One gallery consisted of a fiber arts exhibit from Great Britain--truly fiber arts, not quilting as I think of it. The other gallery had the theme "Baskets" and showed basket quilts from about 1850 on to a contest held every year by the museum, which is a modern interpretation of a theme, which was obviously, baskets. Next years contest will be Jacob's Ladder.
After further walking around downtown, having lunch at the Whaler's Catch, and more shopping we were ready to return to the hotel. Nothing was planned for this evening except a trip to the local mall where there were a lot of restaurants, and more shopping.
Pat and I have decided that it is not the show that's the most important thing in Paducah (unless you're a contestant, of course) and it's not the Museum or the shopping or the eating, but rather the community of all of these things. The whole area comes together for show week, and everyone is pleasant to each other, and all the parts make a wonderous whole.
Now showing below; some more of the wonderful quilts from the show.
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| Rainbow Flying Geese |
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| Game Board |
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| Best Handwork--Star Struck |
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Back of Star Struck
Pat overcome with emotion! |
We set out this morning for the National Quilt Museum, but detoured along the way. First we went to Bryerpatch Studio, which is where Caryl Bryer Fallert creates her art quilts. Most art quilts are unknown territory to me, but Fallert uses color so well that I enjoy looking at them. She was there and invited us up to her studio which is on the second floor of a wonderful old brick home. She showed us quilts in progress and told us of her plans for an exhibit at the Houston Quilt Festival next year. She has some lovely graduated color fabrics available.
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