Missouri Star Quilt Co

The farmer and I drove to Missouri the week of Thanksgiving to spend time with his sister and BIL. Springfield is four hours from Missouri Star Quilt Co so of course I made sure we stopped for a visit.

When I tell people that we visited the town, they want to know what I bought, which was not a lot.

I bought a pattern that I thought looked simple but interesting, Four Patch Trip Around the World. 

I also purchased two Kona white jelly rolls which will be used for piecing the above pattern. My purchases were placed into this really cute bag. It's a small bag but it was large enough to hold my purchases.

I did buy one more thing, a panel. In the picture it looks rather drab. Actually it has white background and is very bright and pretty. I thought this would make a nice compassion quilt. I didn't buy the accompanying fabrics, I knew I had fabrics at home that would coordinate with it just fine.

We were in Hamilton when the stores opened at 9 am Central time. I didn't take a lot of pictures but we enjoyed viewing the painted walls of the buildings.

The scraps shop was interesting, I don't remember the correct name.

The farmer was amused by the cow fabric cuts. He had no idea about the names of different cuts of fabric.

I didn't buy any scraps, I knew I had plenty at home. Of course I took a picture of the blues.

We visited all the stores but the yarn shop. I did forget that some of the stores had upstairs shops, I guess I'll have to make another visit some day.

I was asked by a friend if I thought it was worthwhile visiting Hamilton. I say yes, if you're in the area. I could have easily spent a lot of money but I can say that about any fabric store I visit. I like the idea of how MSQC revived the little town of Hamilton.

I'm sure most of you know that J.C. Penney was from Hamilton and everyone knows about his department stores. We toured his childhood house, it was TINY! I have no idea how they raised children in there! 

After the house, we walked to the Library/Museum. What you may not know is that J.C. Penney had a herd of Guernseys. The farmer really enjoyed viewing all the memorabilia.

There were a lot of trophies on display and pictures of award winning cows and bulls, very exciting stuff, at least for the farmer.

This is a picture of a Premier Breeder and Exhibitor award from a national show in 1937. They don't give awards like this anymore.

This is the Lieber trophy which is a production award. The Lieber was a traveling trophy which was awarded each year. The metal emblems around the bottom are the names of the award winning farms with the year they had the top production in the US. I guess the trophy was full so J.C. just kept this award. 

The American Guernsey Association still gives this award, kind of, nowadays you get a picture of the award 😒.

J.C. also had an award winning beef ranch but I'll let the ranchers talk about that.

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