{"id":1292,"date":"2010-03-05T08:21:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T12:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2010-03-14T10:55:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T14:55:19","slug":"indiana-heritage-quilt-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"Bloomington, Indiana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Bloomington, Indiana<\/a>! If you are within driving distance, you must<\/em> add this annual show to your calendar! The town of Bloomington is charming – built around a court house square, the shops and restaurants lure you into their cozy establishments. Bloomington is home to Indiana University, and is culturally diverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Highlights on this trip are dining each evening with fellow teacher friends. The first night four of us went to a great restaurant\/pub called the Irish Lion<\/a>.\u00a0 PHOTOS<\/a>\u00a0 It is an old building, beautifully preserved, as if you walked into a honest-to-goodness Irish tavern. We dined on corned beef and cabbage, beef pie and other specialties.<\/p>\n

Workshops the first day \u2013 Thursday \u2013 went well. Mine was a Quick & Easy Broken Star<\/em> without Y seams<\/a>. It was a 1-day class, and the students progressed well. Our classroom wall space was not good for mounting design walls, so I regret I didn’t take photos during class! Classmate John finished his quilt top (roughly 70″ square) and plans to piece the small broken stars (12 of them) to create a border and\u00a0increase it to bed-size.<\/p>\n

Last night we dined at Farm Bloomington\u00a0restaurant<\/a>\u00a0facing Courthouse Square. Chef Daniel Orr’s culinary skills are world-reknown. The restaurant is very eclectic inside, with artistic divisions between dining areas such as quilts, farm implements, and salvaged everyday antiques. The General Manager gave us a tour of the two-story restaurant, including the cellar. It is a wild collection of ephemera from bygone days, wall murals, small private rooms with Christmas lights strung merrily.<\/p>\n

Six of us sat in a private high-walled circular booth right near the kitchen, just near the wall adorned with an antique bedpan collection! \u00a0We ordered a variety of dishes, and our enthusiasm encouraged the chef, who plied us with additional tasty treats. “Here, try this – complements of the chef!”\u00a0 I ordered the\u00a0Bitter Orange Glazed Hoosier Duckling with Saut\u00e9ed Pumpkin and Honey Glazed Chestnuts<\/em>. WOW was it tasty!\u00a0 Other highlights: we tried a Minty Green Pea\u00a0Guacamole (unusual, creamy, chilled, slightly sweet) and the intriguing Three Floyds Gumballhead (which turned out to be a beer!).<\/p>\n

The highlight of the evening, aside from our converstaion and “tales from the road”, was seeing musician\/songwriter John Mellancamp<\/a>\u00a0and his lady companion, who passed through the restaurant and ate in a quiet area within sight of our table.<\/p>\n

I hope to see the quilts at the show\u00a0today, and will\u00a0post a message \u00a0if I can take a few photos! My workshop begins in less than an hour, so I must run! Today I am teaching the strip-pieced Variable Hunter Star<\/a> \u2013 although this design looks very traditional, the fabric choices determine the finished project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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