Texas Quilt Museum

I was so fortunate to be going through La Grange Texas on a Thursday when the Texas Quilt Museum is open. I couldn’t have asked for a better choice of displays to be available! Oh, and there was a quilt shop right next to it that I could have spent hours in, The Quilted Skein. Yes, they had yarns to die for (many were hand dyed) and a plethora of Kaffe Fasset from floral to stripes to shot cottons. I only bought 2 yards!!!!!!

Cynthia Collier, League City, TX was the traditional quilt display through December 2015. Her applique quilts are exquisite and you could see her applique abilities improve with each quilt she has made. Most were from Baltimore Album type of quilt books My favorite because of the border treatment is pictured below. I shall look on her website to find out which book(s) it is from but the border treatment is what I want to repeat. More photos from her quilt display later.

Also on display, no photos allowed, were some of my favorite art quilts but it was so wonderful to see them up close and personal for techniques used that don’t show up in photos in books. Of course, I picked up a couple –or more—ideas for some things I have in the WIP art quilt pile.

Through December they also have the Magna Carta quilt display which I did not have knowledge of and did not spend as much time investigating.