Traveling Quilter

Paducah is Ready for the 2012 AQS Quilt Show On the way home from our spring trip Jo and I decided to stop by Paducah to see how preparations were going for the big 2012 Paducah Quilt Show & Quilters Convention. Last year tornadoes, severe storms, and floods almost cancelled the show. The main show [...]

Tyler Quilt Show and interesting things to see and do during the Azalea Festival Jo and I traveled to Tyler Texas to attend the 31st annual Azalea Quilt Show sponsored by the Quilters’ Guild of East Texas. The event is held on the third or fourth weekend of March to coincide with Tyler’s Annual Azalea [...]

Paducah gets ready for the AQS Show On the way home from our spring trip down south to escape the tail end of Wisconsin  winter, Ross and I stayed a few days in the Paducah area at our favorite RV campground – Canal Park in Grand Rivers, KY. One day we drove over to the [...]

In mid-August Jo and I decided to take a trip to the Dubuque Iowa area to see a few sights and visit a quilt shop in nearby Bellevue. I also had a few golf courses I wanted to play We arrived on a Tuesday afternoon and decided to drive west of Dubuque, about 20 miles, [...]

Our plans were to check out a few golf courses in the Dubuque area, visit JoQuilter’s Fabric Shop in Bellevue, Iowa, and enjoy the fourth of July fireworks along the river at Dubuque’s Lock & Dam. We arrived early on Thursday morning at the Grant River Recreation Area by Potosi figuring we’d be able to [...]

Whenever Jo goes to the Paducah AQS Quilt Show, we like to arrive a few days earlier to have some extra time to enjoy the area and get a better choice of an RV campsite. Touring the Dogwood Trail and golfing are among these pre-show pursuits. Last year (2009) there wasn’t an official Dogwood Trail [...]