Bits From The Scrap Basket: Traverse City

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Big and Beautiful Traverse City (Barn) Quilts!

I had the most glorious trip to Traverse City this past weekend with my Sweetie, Steve.

We went up for an extra special geocaching trip - grabbing several historic caches in Grand Traverse County.

We spent Saturday morning touring the Old Mission Penninsula where I got to combine both my passions - quilting and caching!

Welcome to the Old Mission Penninsula Barn Quilt tour! In addition to a lovely wooden quilt squares displayed in the most idyllic settings, each barn had a corresponding geocache nearby. The caches were large and inventive - just like the barn quilts!

Miller Quilt Barn

Myer Quilt Barn

Feiger Quilt Barn

Johnson Quilt Barn 2

Chown Quilt Barn

Krupka Quilt Barn

Lehto Quilt Barn

Johnson Quilt Barn

Lardie Quilt Barn

Florence Quilt Barn

In addition to the barns, we enjoyed the lighthouse, the General Store and a visit to the Historic Inn on the Peninsula.

At the Old Mission Lighthouse

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Barn Quilts in Traverse City!

Up in Traverse City with my sister, Lorna, this weekend, we had a wonderful surprise. Driving up the Old Mission Peninsula, we saw many barns with large quilt blocks painted on the side. Many of the barns were on the properties of the celebrated wineries that dot the island. We even saw some painted on the side of private homes. Unfortunately, we couldn’t stop to grab pictures as the road is quite busy and curvy with no pull-offs. If you get a chance to go to Traverse City, it’s a must stop!

I did find some wonderful pictures here: http://www.freshlemonsquilts.com/?p=1266

My sister and I were up enjoying the early change of colors in Northern Michigan, geocaching, photographing, and eating. All the joys of life! Although Traverse City has quite a few really nice quilt shops, we didn’t stop as we only had about 24 hours total to enjoy TC (and my sister isn’t a quilter).

I thought I’d enjoy some pictures of our trip.