The Fascination of “Quilt Trails”
January 9, 2009 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Home & Living
Quilt Trails take on various meanings to quilters who’ve followed them. However, they can provide enjoyment, information, and adventure.
In this article, a tourism board ponders the idea of attracting visitors to their area with a “Quilt Trail.“ In this case, they’re looking at the quilt designs painted on barns throughout an area or in various states. People interested in quilts and anything quilt related often come from miles around to view these works of art.
There’s now a web site detailing quilt trail art.
Other types of quilt trails might involve touring quilt shops in an area or quilt shows. Perhaps there are quilt museums within a region that work together to produce shows and events.
Maybe you develop your own quilt trail as you go on a vacation or business trip. You’ll research anyting related to quilting in that area and visit.
Have you followed quilt trails around the country or within a state?
i’m not a quilter but i have a question –that i was googling, and this site was one of the firsts to come up.
anyway… a good friend of mine in Prague is insane about patchwork and asked me to send her some magazines from America. And since i live in NYC, i was sure that i’d find a plethora of stuff –which i did– but what would you recommend?? i picked up “Australian Patchwork & Quilting” but there’s a lot of instruction in English and my friend’s English is definitely not that good (its actually pretty bad even though she’s been ’studying’ it for years). Are there any magazines with simpler instructions?? maybe ones with lots of guide pictures?? or even some in Czech?? my spoken Czech definitely isn’t good enough to explain any of the details to her. Any suggestions??
p.s. sorry to bombard your blog with this