I am frequently asked what I do with the quilts in the Collection. Mostly they are rolled or stored flat, covered to keep out the dust, and labeled so I can find them - mostly with the help of my dear friend Liz Williams. I couldn't do it without her! But I do display the quilts in my house so that I can enjoy them. There is always one at the end of the hall that I walk down dozens of times a day (and night) and usually that is where I hang the latest addition. A few are always on display - like Terry Grant's "Yellow Bowl" and "Blue Threads" by Elizabeth Busch. Both of which are on stretcher bars, not something I usually buy, but sometimes cannot resist.
I have a couple walls that are changing galleries, usually every three or four months. With age I find it more difficult to hang the larger quilts by myself, so frequently hang groups of smaller quilts. They might be grouped by subject, artist, color, design elements, whatever occurs to me at the time. Tonight I am posting a "wall of red quilts", chosen just because I wanted to look at them for a while and they read RED. Two are 80th birthday quilts from two friends, the others are rather recent additions to the Collection.
Pomegranates - Rosie Caudillo 2017, Hummingbird - Lenore Crawford 2016,
Spring Chicken - Bonnie Damron 2018, Birthday Bird - Patti Brooks 2018
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