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Special Backdrop for a Show  (2 of 5)


Every horizontal surface was utilized; the shelves in the armoire, beds, trunks,...
Pieces were hung on doors... displayed on stairs...


 hung creatively from chains so as not to mar the walls... 



As we walked in to the first room we found an attendant admiring the piece between the windows here. From a distance I assumed it was a painting in the permanent collection of the house. It was an entry in the show! It had taken the artist over three years to complete.

I got to talking with Kathy who was a volunteer from the Garden Club. It turned out, not only was she a fan of the needle arts, but she was a quilt lover as well. She shared a story about her search for the perfect king size quilt on a family trip to Lancaster Pennsylvania- Amish country. Now I'm thinking that should definitely be on my ever growing "to do" list!

An aside: as we went from room to room I noticed chairs with flashlights resting on them. "Curious." I thought, "It's a rather gray day, perhaps they're expecting a power outage." Then we were admiring the piece with the fish (shown in the center photo above), when the woman on duty there came up to shine her flashlight on it, helping us see the detail of thousands of beads that made up these little creatures... mystery solved!😄

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