When spring starts to tickle the landscape, my thoughts turn to travel. There’s nothing I like better, when the weather gets warmer and the landscape comes back to life, than to indulge in exploratory day trips (or two-day trips) that have some kind of needlework potential to them.

Whether it’s visiting a distant needlework shop (we don’t really have any close-by fine needlework shops) or a distant museum with some great textiles, either makes a great excuse for day tripping.

If you live in the Midwest, if you’re hankering for a road trip, and if you’re into ecclesiastical embroidery – or fabulous examples of beautiful embroidery – today, I thought I’d highlight two pieces of ecclesiastical embroidery appropriate for the day, that are within road-trip reach of Midwesterners this spring (and beyond).

(For those who don’t know, I live in Kansas. I tend to think “Midwest” frequently, but this isn’t to say that people outside the Midwest can’t visit these destinations as well!)

One exhibition is time sensitive. Even though I’ve mentioned it before, I think it’s worth mentioning again because it’s a grand opportunity to see two magnificent pieces of embroidery here in the States that you’d have to travel overseas to see, otherwise.

The other is a permanent exhibit that you can visit if you’re ever wandering through the wilds of northern Missouri.