Chilling in Paducah

On our exploration of the town on Friday, DH and I discovered some wonders and just enjoyed strolling  about the streets . Popping into antique shops and discovering what Paducah had on offer, in quilt week.

We hitched a ride around town with a horse and cart, transport provided for quilt week.

For some reason, our driver, offered for DH to stay with him for the day, I think that he felt sorry for DH, with me dragging him around town and  into the shops.

We did visit a moonshine place.

A perfect photo opportunity as well.

Walking around town is quite interesting, signs are all over the shops, welcoming quilters, there was even free lemonade for the quilters.

Lots of art work and the shops are competive with window displays, quilts are heavily featured and there is even prizes for the best window display.

Lots of art displayed.

Other means of transport.

A visit to the quilt museum, no photos allowed inside the museum.

A lot of bronze statues adorn the town.

We walked along the Ohio River and the flood wall, there was a great flood in 1937 and again in 2003. The town is surrounded by the flood walls as well as levees that circle the town. The flood walls have the most interesting murals painted on them.

The paintings depict typical life in Paducah, past and present.

Paducah has all these wonderful historical plaques all over the town.

In the afternoon Tony and Elva picked us up and we had a nice stroll along the river and enjoyed a photo shot along the wall as well as with the steam engine.

A little history of the 1937 flood.

Watch this space....more soon.

A day sightseeing, antique shopping, a little fabric and another quilt show

Friday was the day to spend exploring Paducah. FIrst up, DH! ELva and myself visited the rotary quilt show, tickets kindly donated by Randy Bridges to the three of us. ON the walk to the hall where the quilt show was being held, we stopped to honour Chief Paduch, who the city was named after.

I love early Native American history and to think that the Chickasaw Indians roamed this land freely, all those years ago.

Then off to the Rotary quilt show where antique quilts, vendors and a challenge of miniature quilts of past and present presidents were on display

DH and Elva, our wonderful host in Paducah.

The entry the the quilt show.

Their was a collection of military antique quilts as well.

No explanation needed.

Red work quilt.

Explanation of red work quilt.

This quilt is dedicated to all the states in the US.

Just because I am so n Kentucky.

I especially loved this quilt, which was boderie pursed, all hand quilted.

This quilt was all Suffolk puffs.

The room with the minature challenge of past and present presidents was separate, each quilter that participated were sent an image of a particular president and icons added to make that particular president unique. As there was a lot of minature quilts, I only took photos of the ones that I thought was interesting.

All hand quilted, very neat work.

Not to be missed, Abraham Lincoln

George Washington, hard too see by this photo, but there was a lot of hand embroidery on this minature.

The present president, Barak Obama

One of the vendors at the Rotary show was Hoopla Patterns, I had the opportunity to chat with Francie Hoffhine Quinn. Francie, was intrigued that I had travelled all the way from Australia, as she has a dear friend that lives in QLD. Francie has reproduced antique quilts into patterns, a lot of the quilts in the Shelburn museum in Vermont. SHe has also written the book called "Enduring Grace"which entails 6 patterns, one being the Sarah Johnson quilt, which I hope to make one day. Francie has also reproduced Florence Peto quilt, "The Calico Garden"

All in all a great quilt show, stay tuned for more adventures.