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Old 09-02-2012, 10:10 PM
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Does the block have to be appliqued?
Barbara's book Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns has several pieced blocks that have the word "Kentucky" in their name.

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Old 09-03-2012, 07:56 PM
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All these ideas are great, can you get a grass gab.
then app the other items around. Please, show us a picc
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Old 09-04-2012, 03:08 AM
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My "od Kentucky Home" is a very simple building. I would think it would be easy enough to adapt for a quilt. I am sure there are pics on line. Also don't foget the twin spires at Churchill Downs. Good luck and post when your done.
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Old 09-04-2012, 03:27 AM
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Mammoth Cave, Natural Bridge, Cumberland Falls (only Moonbow in the Northern Hemisphere), Jefferson Davis Monument, Fort Knox, and Daniel Boone National Forest.
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Old 09-04-2012, 03:32 AM
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Since you live in Leesburg, how about a day trip to Stephen Foster Memorial in Suwanee, FL? There are dioramas to look at, antebellum style museum and beautiful carillon bells that play some of Foster's tunes. After a trip there, you'd have inspiration. Take a detour over to Trenton with its quilt shop and genuine old time soda fountain. Just an idea...love day trips!
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Old 09-04-2012, 03:48 AM
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I'm from Kentucky, the house in my old Kentucky home is a large salt-box like hous with twin chimneys, one on each end of the house. The house sitting on a hill with blue(it isn't really blue grass, it is very thick dark green grass, the humidity in Kentucky keeps it rich) with huge trees - no evergreens- with perhaps a couple of whiskey barrels near the house would be an appriopriate representation. My grandmother had large old whiskey barrels at each of the four downspouts on her house as rainbarrels. Her house was similar in construction as the old Kentucky home, but her's was white with a black roof on only one chimney.
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Kentucky is home to "good bourbon, fast horses and wild women"...that may expand your horizons a little, especially the good bourbon and wild women.
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Old 09-04-2012, 04:26 AM
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Living in ky for the last 30 years, you think of Stephen Foster's song "My Old Kentucky Home, Churchill downs horse racing, Burbon distilleries , My Old Kentucky Home dinner train, coal mines, Calumet Farm, with all the rolling pastures, white fences, big barns, tobacco fields, farms,the small towns, the mountains, google up Bardstown, which was voted " most down home town" in the USA just last month... things here are so laid back, most people are friendly, I could go on but hopes some of this helps
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​Maybe I'm wrong but I think most of the rail fences are black....correct me if I'm wrong.
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Anything horse related, bourbon, Abe Lincoln, or musical - especially bluegrass and country. Lots of things Good luck! Can hardly wait to see the photos of what you come up with!!

There are white and black fences - just depends on the farmer's preference! The fences at Calumet Farms are white. (Calumet is an icon.) Either white or black would true to Kentucky!!
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