If you are anywhere near Kansas City this weekend you'd better pedal on over to my town Lawrence, Kansas, which used to be basketball central but is now quilt central (at least for the 2014 Final Four weekend.)
Rambler by Roseanne Smith
The Kaw Valley Quilt Guild is staging our Annual Show:
The show will be open:
Saturday, April 5 - 10 to 5
Sunday, April 6 – Noon to 5
The Place:
Crown Toyota, 3430 Iowa, Lawrence, Kansas
$5 admission
We'll have dozens of our quilts on display, a charity auction of small quilts, a merchant's mall, demonstrations and a special exhibit by our featured quilter.
Roseanne Smith is the featured one. She specializes in
star quilts.
She'll also be doing a trunk show of her quilts, talking
about the efficient techniques she uses and what could possibly go wrong.
Talks are at 2:00 on Saturday and Sunday.
Oooh, Nooo!
A Hoffman Challenge by Roseanne Smith
(I really don't know what Roseanne is going to show because it's only Tuesday and she has
till Friday night to get more done.)
Click here for more information:
In Kansas City (40 miles east of Lawrence):
The Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild is hosting
The KCMQG Showcase at The Star
An exhibit of 80 quilts made by KCMQG members will be up for the first part of the weekend. The free event is being held at The Kansas City Star Press Pavilion at 16th & Magee Streets in Kansas City, Missouri.
Friday 5-9
Saturday 9:30-3
And it's also Shop Hop Weekend in the area.
Click here to read more: http://heartlandquiltshophop.com/
Two continuing museum shows are worth the trip. One is in Lawrence.
Quilt by Yoshiko Jinzenji
Personal Geometry:
Quilts by Yoshiko Jinzenji & Virginia Jean Cox Mitchell
Spencer Museum of Art
Lawrence, Kansas
On the University of Kansas Campus
(Next to the football stadium on Mississippi Street)
Museum Hours:
10 AM - 4 PM Tuesday, Friday & Saturday
10 AM - 8 PM Wednesday - Thursday
Noon - 4 PM Sunday
10 AM - 8 PM Wednesday - Thursday
Noon - 4 PM Sunday
Click here for more information: http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/exhibitions/personal-geometry.shtml
And see more about Jean Mitchell's quilts at a post here last month:
(Also ask the desk volunteer where the Virginia Randles quilt is hanging)
And in Topeka (25 miles west of Lawrence on I-70)....
The Garden by Josephine Craig
Speaking of Quilts:
Voices from the Collection and the Community
Kansas Museum of History
Topeka, Kansas
Museum Hours:Tuesday to Saturday 9-5
Sunday 1-5
Click here for more information:
http://kshs.org/p/speaking-of-quilts/18465
http://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-museum-of-history-plan-your-visit/15465#hours
You'd better plan on seeing EVERYTHING!
Sounds like a busy month and lots of wonderful shows. We are having ours this month, they do it every two years.
ReplyDeleteDebbie
Almost makes me wish I were in KS instead of warm, sunny SC. I said "Almost!"
ReplyDeleteOh, this is very tempting...I'm just a little over two hours from Lawrence, and I could really use a weekend off. I wonder how badly I'd have to kill myself the rest of this week in order to be able to take at least Saturday off. Hmm...
ReplyDelete