When we were here on vacation last January, Dan and I went on a drive with the girls one afternoon to sightsee in the mountains. We stopped in Golden, a little town with a quaint historic main street that holds restaurants, an indie bookstore, and one of only six quilt museums in the country, the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum.
It might not sound that exciting, but wow, these are absolutely beautiful works of art. They have a permanent collection of over 300 quilts, and lots of temporary exhibits, like their current one, "Wranglers Among Us", which is made up of quilts made by men, from retirees to high school students. It's a small place, basically just one big room, with about twenty quilts on display (at least right now), but I could have stayed there for an hour. Unfortunately, we barely made it 30 minutes because the girls were not quite as enamored with the quilts as Dan and I were. (Sorry there aren't any pictures, they don't allow photography in the museum.)
Across the street and down the block is the Golden Quilt Company, a sweet little fabric shop with tons of beautiful fabric and quilts for sale on the walls. Between that store and the museum I was pretty darn inspired--inspired enough to let Abby choose her own pack of fat quarters to buy so she can start her very first sewing project. Hopefully we'll have lots of pictures of that to post someday soon!
Our morning adventure ended with a dead car battery that Dan successfully jumped in the midst of snow flurries with a booster pack he bought ages ago as part of our car emergency kit. Boy was I thankful for his foresight! (And for a product that did what it was supposed to with zero fuss.) Three cheers for handy husbands!
We definitely want to go back in the spring when the weather is a little warmer so we can wanders the main street and check out the museum again--WITHOUT the girls, if possible. Or at least with girls who aren't teething and whining about how hungry they are. :)
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