On the Road Again Part 5

May 26th we woke up and drove up to Colorado Springs. We had read that
there was a zoo there and wanted to check it out.

The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo was open. It operated without local support.
They depend completely on admissions, membership dues, donations and grants.

Above the zoo is the Will Roger Shrine that is part of the admission. It is
1.4 miles from the entrance and you see views from more than 8,000 ft.
elevation.

The elevation change in the zoo is equivalent to a 10 story building! They
recommend taking the tram for $1.00 to the top and walking down. This is
what we did.
They have a gorilla display, along with several other primates. A lion's
lair, Asian highlands, wolf woods. Aquatics, birds, elephant yard, and an
amazing display of giraffes. This display includes the chance to feed the
giraffes if you wish to purchase rye krisp type of crackers.

We did drive up to the Will Rogers Shrine and climbed all the stairs up to
the top. The views there are amazing.

We drove up to Denver...lots of construction on the freeway and arrived in
Golden. Got to the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum 45 minutes before closing.

Downstairs they have a Postage Stamp Display in one room and upstairs in
another room a display of antique quilts from Bobby Aug's collection.

The Vintage Quilts magazine out right now features some of the quilts in the
RMQM collection, but not the ones I saw. They don't allow any photographs
and have someone walk around and tell you about each of the historic quilts.

We went down to the postage quilts for another look and the gal gave us
directions to go to Primedia and see a display of quilts they have.
Primedia is Quilters' Newsletter and Quiltmaker.

This was amazing...they currently have a display of quilts that are being
voted for viewers choice. Two were from my area, one from Richmond by
Bonnie Hwang, and the other from Langley by Marilyn Ramaugh...Jessica's
Garden a beautiful appliqué quilt that our guild borrowed in 2000 for a
display we did.

Mickie, I could see the top of you America the Beautiful quilt, but didn't
have the guts to ask if I could see it closer. It was the end of their work
day and they may have said yes, but I didn't ask.

In the Quilt Market at the Museum, one of the ladies gave me a copy of the
Colorado Quilt Council newsletter. It lists the shops and services in the
state related to quilting. She suggested two shops, and added to read the
descriptions, because some of them were long arm businesses or internet
shops. [e-quilter.com]

Found a hotel for the night and then stumbled on another great Italian
restaurant called Abrusci's on Youngfield in Wheatsprings. Mom and I shared
their kitchen sink salad and lasagne and couldn't finish it. Again the
roasted garlic and olive oil for fresh Italian bread.

In the hotel room I sat and read the quilt council newsletter and found that
the LQS in Wheatsprings was called Harriet's Treadle Arts [HARRIET
HARGRAVE'S store!!!] The other shop in Denver Great American Quilt Factory
was...LYNDA MULLIGAN and NANCY SMITH'S shop!

Woke up the next morning and went to Harriet's Treadle Arts, lovely shops
with a nice cross section of fabrics, vintage, brights, country. Great
staff, I found some of the Heirloom black batting and got 3 yards to try.

Then back through that construction to Great American Quilt Factory. If you
want brights, this is your shop. Lots of wonderful samples and great staff.

Back on the road...through the construction for the third time in 24 hours
and we went to Broomfield and found Dry Creek Quilts. They've just moved
into a shop attached to a house. Nice fabrics and decor. The old shop is
still open and has most of their flannels and sale fabrics.

What a beautiful setting with the Rocky Mountains on the left as you drive
north. Northern Colorado became more rolling hills with ranchland.

We crossed into Wyoming and tripped upon the Quilted Corner. They've also
just moved. She gave me a list of all the Wyoming shops.

In Wheatland we found the Quilt Rustler shared it's space with Wheatland
Mercantile and Rys Rifleworks! I found an neat clearance bolt and the gal
gestimated that there were 3 yards left, when there were 4 she only charged
me for 3!

More rolling hills, lots of clouds, windy and a few showers. They warned us
we may come to snow in Yellowstone tomorrow!

In Douglas we missed The Prairie Stitcher by 20 minutes. She was still in
the shop, but wouldn't come to the door. :-[.

The wind was absolutely incredible all day! On to Yellowstone and Old
Faithful tomorrow.

--
Sandi in New Westminster B.C.
Queen of the Travelogues.
....travel is as much a passion as ambition or love
L. E. Landon

In article VX9wc.637420$Pk3.534876@pd7tw1no,
"shhdesigns" wrote:

In the hotel room I sat and read the quilt council newsletter and found that
the LQS in Wheatsprings was called Harriet's Treadle Arts [HARRIET
HARGRAVE'S store!!!] The other shop in Denver Great American Quilt Factory
was...LYNDA MULLIGAN and NANCY SMITH'S shop!

Woke up the next morning and went to Harriet's Treadle Arts, lovely shops
with a nice cross section of fabrics, vintage, brights, country. Great
staff, I found some of the Heirloom black batting and got 3 yards to try.


Wow! How cool is that? And let me know how you like that black
batting; I was looking for it several weeks ago and couldn't find it. :S

--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front
http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1

"Sandy Foster" wrote in message
...
In article VX9wc.637420$Pk3.534876@pd7tw1no,
"shhdesigns" wrote:

In the hotel room I sat and read the quilt council newsletter and found
that
the LQS in Wheatsprings was called Harriet's Treadle Arts [HARRIET
HARGRAVE'S store!!!] The other shop in Denver Great American Quilt
Factory
was...LYNDA MULLIGAN and NANCY SMITH'S shop!

Woke up the next morning and went to Harriet's Treadle Arts, lovely
shops
with a nice cross section of fabrics, vintage, brights, country. Great
staff, I found some of the Heirloom black batting and got 3 yards to
try.


Wow! How cool is that? And let me know how you like that black
batting; I was looking for it several weeks ago and couldn't find it. :S

--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front
http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1
I will let you know and will probably look for a local source also. I found
it in Grand Forks but that is over a five hour drive away. I paid US$5.99
and found it for CAD$12.99, quite the difference when you factor in the
exchange.

--
Sandi in New Westminster B.C.
Queen of the Travelogues.
....travel is as much a passion as ambition or love
L. E. Landon