So this quilt show I went to last weekend was a lot different then I thought it’d be. It was really pretty neat. I don’t really know anything about the history of the Davies Manor, but it’s this really neat old house set off in a wooded area of town. It’s on a bit of acreage, and there are several old buildings on the property too.
This is the main house, and all the antique quilts in the show were displayed here. But they also had a lot of neat old antiques around, and the house was all furnished like it might have been back when it was built. I’ll show you some of my favorite quilts there, and you can see the neat furnishings too.
For all the tatters, here’s some antique shuttles on a very delicate tatted doily.
All these squares were about an inch. I can’t imagine how much work that would be all by hand.
My grandma went with us and I think she really enjoyed it. She liked seeing a lot of the stuff that she remembers from when she was little. There were very ornate pee cans under the bed in this room. My grandma said that’s why you don’t pronounce the nut ‘pee-cans’, they’re ‘pecans’. She said a pee can is what you keep under the bed. Words of wisdom.
This neat little sewing set up had a gorgeous old machine. The papers there were set out to tell about old Singers, but I think it ruins the look a little bit. The machine had gorgeous flowers painted on it. Makes me want to paint some on my machine.

This man was demonstrating how to cane a chair. 
And there was a woman demonstrating how to make bobbin lace. All those sticks are called bobbins, and they’re weighted so that they stay where you put them. It might be hard to see, but up on the roll are a bunch of straight pins stuck on a paper pattern. She was weaving the different bobbins between the needles, and coming out with the lace edging you see on the left side.
My Mom said she didn’t realize ‘wonky’ was an old thing. She thought it was a new idea.
Then there was this other building that had all the ‘contemporary’ quilts hanging in it, and a few vendors. I apologize to this lady for putting her back end on the internet. This is the building my 2 quilts were in.
This picture is a little blurry, but I really liked this quilt because of all the 3D stuff in the scenes. It was a really cute version of sunbonnet sue. And I’m just now noticing, as I look at the picture, that each scene is for a different month. Now I like it even more! How cute!

This quilt was impressive because all the veins on all the wings were stitched. The wings are made out of solid fabrics, and the person went back and did all that.

And I love selvedges, so these were 2 of my favorites.
And here are the 2 quilts that I entered: the first is the Washington’s Cherry Wreath, and the second is the Chubby Chicks. If you read my blog regularly they probably look very familiar
These are just a few of the one hundred eighty something quilts that were there. It was a really neat show, and I’m already looking forward to next year.





















































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