The new Bryerpatch Studio in Paducah Kentucky

Stained glass transom over door of shop designed by Caryl and made by Wanda Sanders of Paducah.

Welcome to the new studio/gallery/shop/classroom/and residence. Come on in and look around.
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If you are coming through Paducah, please stop by and see us.

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	Here we are in the shop, looking into classroom/gallery in the background.
In July we moved into the working studio on the second floor and had our first official event in the classroom. Here it is set up in "meeting format" for a community seminar. Hands-on quilting workshops will start in the winter of 2007. Let us know if you would like to be notified when we start scheduling classes.
In September we finally got an occupancy permit for the whole building. Here are a few views of the interior.
	We have a functional kitchen at last.
Yes......it is large. It's designed to seat 20 or more for lunch when we have workshops and seminars.
If you would like to rent a guest room please contact us for fees and availability. (NOTE: They are already reserved during the quilt show in 2007)
Guest Room 1 2 comfortable twin beds ~ 2 comfortable chairs ~ 2 bedside lamps with daylight bulbs ~ 9 spacious dresser drawers ~ desk with (free) ethernet port ~ private bath with full tub/shower and 5' vanity ~ 5'+ closet ~ access to coffee maker, microwave, mini-fridge ~ door onto balcony

Guest Room 2 2 comfortable beds (1 twin & 1 full) ~ 2 comfortable chairs ~ 2 bedside lamps with daylight bulbs ~ 9 spacious dresser drawers ~ desk with (free) ethernet port ~ private bath with full tub/shower and 5' vanity ~ 5'+ closet ~ access to coffee maker, microwave, mini-fridge ~ door onto balcony

Back balcony: accessible from both guest rooms and the main second floor hallway by the library.
Library

Left side view	Right side view
Reading Room in guest wing, next to library: Still a bit bare, but it's a start.
	Great Room upper walls and ceiling from the second floor hallway. The mural was painted by Lana Watkins from Brookport Illinois.
Master Bath with window based on one of my quilt designs. Stained glass by Wanda Sanders of Paducah.
	Corner of great room showing windows and antique china cabinet. Needs furniture desperately!!

Alcoves and fireplace in great room. Fireplace will have a Japanese wedding kimono hanging over it eventually.	Breakfront in great room was designed to house a set of prairie style windows purchased in Chicago in 1977.
More pictures and (hopefully) furniture coming soon.
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MAY: After the quilt show we moved our business office, sewing machines, and design studio into the new space. The computers and sewing machines are behind temporary walls in the Gallery/Classroom while we wait for the rest of the building to be finished. As soon as we are able to move the computers and sewing machines into Caryl's private studio upstairs, we will start scheduling workshops.
Our contractors still aren't making any promises about when that will be. Ceramics by Caryl's neighbor Teri Moore are on display during the Lower Town Arts Festival (Memorial Day weekend).
	May 16, 2006: The brick is still going up, but most of the walls are covered, at least from this angle.
April 24, 2006: QUILT SHOW WEEK!!! The doors of our shop and gallery are finally open, just in time for the big AQS Quilt Show, and the crowds started pouring in immediately.
	I couldn't have done it without my wonderful friends and helpers. Everyone had their own Bryerpatch Studio apron. We had extras for anyone who wanted to stop in and help for a while.
Our future classroom was full of quilts and our brand new line of "gradations" from Benartex was displayed on tables. Our "daylight" bulbs, were chosen to give future workshop participants the best possible task lighting. They showed off the colors beautifully.
	We had enthusiastic shoppers...
and comfortable seating for those with shorter attention spans.
	The rest of the building is still under construction, and we have no promises about a final completion date.
April 13, 2006 The stained glass for the transom is installed, and it makes us easy to recognize after dark. Caryl created the design, and the window was made by LowerTown Paducah artist Wanda Sanders.
	Meanwhile, the weather is absolutely perfect, and our country home in Kuttawa is beautiful. Miz Beulah's irises are blooming and the forest is sprinkled with dots of white dogwood.
April 11, 2006 There are lots of people working today to get the studio open by Quilt Week (April 24-29). All the parking places are taken. Channel 6 (NBC) sent out a reporter and cameraman to cover the action, and the camera man for the Quilt Channel (13) was there to film the final column being installed.
	WE HAVE COLUMNS!!! At last, those spindly little 2x4's have given way to real columns. They look so much better. Here is the very last column being hoisted into place. That big crane is holding up the roof while the column is positioned.
The brick work continues. Hopefully they'll have all that ugly pink stuff covered before the Quilt Show. The contractor told the TV crew that there are 80,000 bricks. I'm glad I don't have to count them.
	April 1, 2006 Only three weeks to go until the big quilt show, and we're focusing on getting the classroom, shop and office finished, so we can be open. The brick is up to the roof on most of the front section of the building, and the tile is finished.
Concrete was poured yesterday, and this is a view of the new sidewalk and front porch. Scroll down for interior shot of the second floor studio.
	March 25, 2006 There were actually bricklayers on the job for a few hours today. (First time I've see any contractors working on Saturday in Paducah)
This will be my private working studio on the second floor. The rest of the building will have neutral colors, but in my personal workspace I chose bright colors that make me happy. I have never seen a blue and yellow quilt I didn't love, so I'm using blue and yellow tile in a checker board pattern on my floor. It looks like a vast empty space here, but wait until I get all my stuff in it. It's about the same size as my studio in Chicago, so I know I'll use every inch of it.
	March 17, 2006 We finally have brick reaching all the way to the top of one wall. YEAAAAAAAH!!! We also have a heater blasting away inside, drying the drywall in the shop, office and gallery on the first floor. We are on a big push to get these three rooms finished for the big quilt show the end of April. We also have the first of our floor tile starting in the working studio on the second floor(scroll down for a preview) OK, so this is not the worlds most beautiful photograph, but I was pretty excited to see this wall finished. After driving around Lower Town and looking at all of the brick buildings, I noticed that most of the old buildings had darker mortar, and most of the newer ones had lighter mortar. I decided I wanted the building to blend into the neighborhood of old Victorians and look like it had always been here. I chose a darker mortar that is more or less the same value (light/dark) as the brick.
March 9, 2006 We're having monsoons, but the brick is finally starting up the side of the building. Inside work has gone forward. On the second floor the drywall is finished and painted. Hopefully the drywall on the first floor will be finished soon.
	January 16, 2006 Yes, we're still pink, but the gables and soffits are looking good with white trim and fish scale shingles.. We had some cold weather, and the bricklaying crew had to finish another building before they started ours. We're hoping for warm, dry weather next week, so the brick layers can start.
December 6, 2005 We're still pink, but brick has been delivered to the front yard, and as soon as the temperature rises above 40° we will become "Classic Lower Town Red". In the meantime, the carpenter is finishing the last details of the walls and closets inside. The furnaces have been delivered, and ductwork is going into the spaces between the first and second floors. The electrician is hanging the first of the lighting fixtures, and the plumber did his first walk-through. I'm making lots of finishing decisions like tile, carpeting, counter tops, woodwork, door knobs, sinks, etc. etc. etc. Who knew there would be so many decisions?	.
	November 21, 2005 More doors and windows are installed. In Lower Town, everyone seems to use the same pink vapor barrier. At one time or another everyone gets to be "the new pink house". Now it's our turn.
November 15, 2005 It's getting pinker, and windows and doors are beginning to fill the holes in the walls.
	November 15, 2005 The front porch is built, we have shingles on the roof, and the pink vapor barrier is starting to go up on the outside of the building. The sirens wail as tornados blow through the area, and the temperature falls from the 70's to the 20's. We do a walk through with Phyllis the lighting designer while it's still warm, and the next day, we walk through in bitter cold with Willie, the computer network expert, and Charlie, the speaker wiring expert. Can't wait to get some windows installed
November 1, 2005 Plywood is on the roof, and black paper stuff is nailed down in preparation for the shingles. I pushed the wrong button on my camera, and got a little overexposed on this picture.
	October 17, 2005 Roof trusses are being lifted up by the white truck.
October 5, 2005 Plywood starts on second floor, and the roof trusses have been delivered to the front yard..
	September 25, 2005 We have more walls on the second floor.
September 17, 2005 We finally have walls rising on the second floor, and with stairways installed we can go up and see the view. From the second floor balcony we can see all the way to Illinois.
	August 25, 2005 Plywood starts to sheath the outside walls, and we can now see rooms inside.
Mid-August 2005 We have a few more walls on the first floor.
	Early August 2005 The first walls rise, and I'm teaching at Quilting by the Lake in New York. This picture was E-mailed to me by Bernie Hebert, one of my new neighbors.
July 2005 We have a concrete slab with lots of pipes sticking out.
	June 2005 We're finally breaking ground.
April 2005 We now own the lot, but we're still waiting for approval of our plans by HARC (Historic and Architectural Review Committee). The sign was up in time for the quilt show, and the guard rabbits were in place.
	September 2004 We selected an empty lot at the corner of 5th and Harrison in the Lower Town Historic District of Paducah. It took several months for the city to get a clear title to the property, so we waited until January 2005 to make application for the lot through the Artists Relocation Program.