This is a preview post of several quilt stories to come. As you know, I love to photograph my quilts in unusual settings and sometimes leave home with one or two, then blog about the quilt in detail.
Today we had the opportunity to revisit Step Back, a privately owned rural community with twenty 1900-era buildings. An earlier post with details about this place is here.
When our camera club was invited to come stroll about the grounds with cameras, I asked if I might bring some quilts. When the answer was “yes,” I gathered a few pieces whose stories are waiting to be part of a blog post. So today you see some glamour shots – later more complete stories.
The silvery gray buildings were a wonderful backdrop for quilts to shine. Sometimes the contrast was minimal, other times it was strong, but always, the old buildings brought new character to fabric and stitches. As always, you can click on any image to enlarge and see details.
Miss Nellie’s Country Garden posed near the waterwheel. This 12 foot wheel is perfectly balanced and turns with just the tiniest trickle of water as its power source.
Miss Emily’s Baskets rested in some cotton baskets inside the mill house.
This is the cabin where local ladies pretend to be floozies at the Christmas open house every December. I thought my wool quilt, A Flock of Feathered Floozies, needed to pose here.
Here, Where the Soul says Ahhh is hanging inside the entry of the schoolhouse.
And here you see why I chose this quilt for the schoolhouse.
A little goat quilt rides on a tricycle. This quilt has been the subject of an earlier blog post here , but it seemed that a goat quilt needed to visit Step Back.
Guineas visited Step Back, too. Guineas on Parade posed at the base of the windmill and on the floozies’ porch.
And, a man in overalls was visiting today. Of course he was. A trip back in time to a rural setting would not be complete without that image!
For more details about the Step Back village, visit http://seniornewsga.com/NewspapersSN/Atlanta/2015/AtlantaSeniorNewspdfdec15.pdf or like the Step Back page on Facebook.
