Houston day two, aka Something to do in Houston other than Quilt Festival. Our original plan was to do the quilt show over the weekend and visit the Children’s Museum of Houston on Monday. Only I didn’t realize that the museum was closed on non-summer Mondays. So I rearranged our schedule at the last minute and we visited the Children’s Museum on Sunday instead. Sure there were some things at the show that I had reserved to come back and do and see the next day, but even just the one day at the quilt show was outstanding. And there will definitely be other years to spend more days at Quilt Festival as well. My DD will not be little forever.

And surprise, there were quilts to be found even at the Children’s Museum. Here is a traditional Gullah quilt made by an intergenerational group of youth and elders, and led by Michelle Barnes of the Community Artist Collective.
Next is a story quilt, Gullah Ooman, made by Vermelle “Bunny” Smith Rodrigues. This quilt tells the story of her Gullah ancestors from their life in Africa before the Europeans arrived, the hardships of slavery, and the emancipation of the Gullah and other African people.Here is Annika at her favorite exhibit, Wireless Ping Pong. The idea is to learn about cell phone technology by sending a series of ping pong balls with words written on them to a person at a station in another part of the museum. That person can then send ping pong ball messages back to you. They will come down through the other tube.If you look up you can see the ping pong balls traveling through the tubes to their destination.After a busy day at the Children’s Museum we headed back to the convention center to pick up my quilt.I was glad to have my quilt back again after all those months. I was also very pleased with the judges’ comments. Now I have to put those comments to good use and start on my next quilt!

happy quilting!