Antique Quilts

Quilt Weekend Deadline Approaches and Great News!

July 21 is the deadline for registrations for the exciting Quilt Weekend sponsored by Packwood House Museum.  Click here for a link to the Museum and more information about the exhibit and weekend, including registration information.  There is still space available in all of the classes.

The great news is that the Board of Directors has given us permission to open our two dinner/lecture programs to the public, without payment of the weekend registration fee.  So interested folks can hear Donna Ruppert on "Progressions in 19th-Century Pennsylvania Quiltmaking" on Friday, August 21, and Jeannette Lasansky, author of In the Heart of Pennsylvania and Pieced by Mother, on "Seeking One's Quilting Roots:  How It Began, Where It's Going" on August 22. 

The price of each dinner and lecture together is $35.  Dinner includes choice of entrée plus various sides and dessert. 

Contact Packwood House Museum (570) 524-0323 or visit www.packwoodhousemuseum.com for more information and to register for the dinners.

The Exhibit is Open and It's Wonderful!

I know there has been a long break in my posts.  My husband and I and our daughter and son-in-law all went to Tanzania and Rwanda on a 10-day National Geographic Expeditions trip, and it was wonderful.

In Rwanda we climbed up (twice) to see mountain gorillas, and see them we did!

In Serengeti and Ngorngoro we saw all the expected critters and birds, and a few less expected ones.  We saw tree-climbing lions and leopards, several cheetahs, two black rhinoceros(es?), giraffes, wildebeest, hartebeest, zebras, elephants, hippos, crocodiles, and lots more.  My daughter was touched by a gorilla as the mama carrying her baby cut through our line of human visitors to move to a different spot.  THAT was exciting!

But what you're really here for is news about the Packwood House Museum Quilt Exhibit, and news there is. 

The exhibit opened June 9 (while I was away, unfortunately), and co-chairs Sherry Walter and Betty Steffensen did a wonderful job finishing it up in my absence (not that I was doing more than manual labor in hanging the exhibit anyway).  Here are some pix:






 "My" indigo Irish Chain quilt with the 312 names on it is second from the right in the photo above.

This is a knock-your-socks-off exhibit.  Please come see it!