Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum

We are already back home after a nice week in Golden, Colorado, visiting my mom and sister.  Mom will be 103 on June 27, and we in the family are spreading her birthday out so we can all enjoy each other to the fullest.  We took Mom out to breakfast at Denny's one morning - that's her favorite place to go with us.  Another morning was spent at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, just a few miles from Mom's house.   There are usually two exhibits going on, and this time there was large selection of modern quilts and a smaller room of sampler quilts by Japanese-American women.  Here are a few of the contemporary ones.

First is one with a pieced background, topped with applique and embellishments.  The "grass" is a grayish silk thread.

This is a fairly traditional string quilt made of 16 blocks, half cream and half strings in mostly blues and greens.  What was interesting is that it was closely quilted with a serpentine stitch.

I liked the blend of colors and the quilting of this beach scene.  It's hard to tell, but the waves include small stitches made with white perle cotton.

This was Paul's favorite.  "The End of the Rainbow" shows an appliqued trout colored with fabric pens or pencils.  Out of its tail are gold beads pouring into or out of a pot of gold.  There's lots of texture created by machine quilting in the background.

The museum shop is slated for expansion so it's bursting at the seams.  There doesn't appear to be a quilt shop in the area, so this may be the only in-person source for local quilters.  I love to look at the related items, and because there was a gallery with Japanese-related quilts, there was a nice selection of sashiko kits.  

I would like to do more sashiko but instead decided to buy this panel which was designed especially for the museum by David Taylor.    I don't usually buy panels, but this one called to me, especially with the sun and trees.  It will make a nice throw.  The picture shows a wide border, but the panel really stops before the thin brown border, which is fine with me.