Envy is a bad thing but I am guilty!! Having been there I apprecitate your experience. That is where I bought my Baby lock a couple of years ago, memories. Love the Quillt Museum, the murals, the river, and ofcourse Hancock of Paducah. We used to travel that way but "old age" is catching up. Miss it. Picture of the show would be nice.lol

Thanks for the link to your blog, Karen! It's very nice to meet you and see another hand quilter. I read it a bit, enough to see you use a paddle, and enough to find an excuse to post a picture of the quilty things I bought at Paducah. I lured my mom and sister on the trip with promises of thimbles. These are all mine, mine, mine, two for thumb quilting and a pink one for finger quilting. I got my sister a matching pansy for her finger, but my mom had tried on a too-small-for-me silver Roxanne's and got stars in her eyes so she wouldn't have another one.

My understanding is that the colored feedsacks were first produced in the mid-1920s. Prior to that they were white with printed logos, but not overall prints suitable for clothing, quilts or curtains. I have a whole cloth quilt made by my great grandmother out of the white feedsacks. One of the logos is still barely visible. I have a couple of printed sacks, with their paper labels intact. They are from a feed mill about 50 miles from here. I also have some border printed sacks that I want to make into either an apron or a skirt. Annie Here is a link that might be useful: History of feedsacks.

Use whatever you want, do whatever you want. The only stipulation is that there is a minimum of 9 blocks and each block must represent in some way a time of your life. Marti in Mexico