The Texas Quilt Museum was open on the Monday before the quilt show. We were the only ones there and we spent several hours gazing at these lovelies!
About the exhibit:
Princess Feathers and Feathered Stars is partially sponsored by the Lucille Gaebler Klein Fund, and will feature 45 incredible quilts drawn from the International Quilt Festival Collection, as well as the private collections from Museum co-founders Karey Bresenhan and Nancy O’Bryant in Galleries I and II.
“Quilters have long associated feathers with the 19th and 20th centuries,” says Museum Curator Vicki Mangum.
“The earliest use of the Princess Feather design was found on a quilt dated 1818. Feathered Star quilts began appearing in the 19th century as well. Both are intricately pieced and time consuming for the busy quilter. Modern sewing methods and machines, make quick work of these two cherished designs.”
I highly recommend a visit before January 4th, 2025.
These are incredible and stunning, but not perfect! Embrace the humble!
Quilting directly over the applique.
This was hanging behind quilts for sale and this one was for sale! So unique.
Perfectly imperfect!
A close up of the one on the wall for sale.
Laurie bought it!
I asked her to choose her favorite from the exhibit. This was hers.
This was mine.
Lori, Laurie and Laurie.
The ladies at the museum were terrific!
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Close ups later at the hotel- coin for size comparison.
I hope you were inspired by these amazing quilts!
For those who inquired about my least favorite museum, the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY was correct. I like seeing more antique quilts. The quilts that were on display were very pretty- I certainly can appreciate them, just not my favorite.
Lets have an amazing week!
Very inspiring post today. My favorite would be the same as your friend, Laurie. All of the princess feather quilts are beautiful. I believe princess feather pattern would be my top all-time favorite!
ReplyDeleteSo glad your friend Laurie was able to buy that quilt. Such beautiful quilting and piecing. It would have been a hard quilt to leave behind.
ReplyDeleteIn my early years of piecing and quilt making, I had not seen hand quilting going OVER the hand applique. It went around and if it went over it was to go around the center of the flower. So that is how I started hand quilting a quilt that Hubby's mom made for us... as yet unfinished since we got cats, and they liked to play with the exposed batting. Now we live in a travel trailer, so no room for that bed sized quilt in its hoop. Thank you so much for sharing. Before I began to make any quilt blocks I read EVERY book I could find on the subject in the libraries that I could visit. This began around 1980, and when I found a book with just pictures of old quilts, but no directions I drew my own butterflies to applique and blew the size up on the office copy machine. It was a boring job, and I hand appliqued the set of blocks then made another pattern. Having inspired his mom to get back into making quilts, and she was FINISHING them. That inspired me to make the pile of butterflies and other blocks into their respective quilts. I finished 12 quilts that year! Everyone has their own story!
ReplyDeleteI love this!!
DeleteBeautiful! Thanks for sharing these gorgeous quilts!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the trip through all the princess feathers (which boggle my mind). Fun to see the occasional feathered star, too. Definitely sense the "feather" theme. This looks like a museum worth visiting.
ReplyDeleteVery cool for Laurie to get that quilt! Look at that dense hand quilting. Lovely!