Hello everyone! This is my first post to the group. I am helping the Hickman County Quilt Show committee publicize their Second Annual Quilt Show. If you love local history and quilts, please come to our show! It's October 5th and 6th at the First Baptist Church, 123 Church Street, Centerville, TN 37033. Last year they had 189 quilts, owned or made by Hickman County residents.
We would love to see you! More information included below in the press release.
Celebrating 200 Years of Stars, the theme of the second annual Hickman County Quilt Show is to encourage Hickman County residents to enter at least 200 quilts in the show for Hickman County's bicentennial year. This year's show features the star pattern and designs in pieced, embroidered, quilted, and appliqu=E9d quilts. Other quilt patterns and designs will also be displayed. Show quilts are made or owned by current or former Hickman County residents. Quilts are pieced and quilted by hand or machine. Displays of quilts will include baby, lap- size, full-size, queen, king, and wall hangings. Heirloom, battered, mended, old, and new quilts will be shown. Last year's show displayed
189 entries. The show also features three special quilts: The Cooper Quilt, stored for six generation in a cherry wood chest; Happy Hexagons, made in 1985 by eighty-year-old Sarah Jenkins and featured in Great American Quilts; and The Katrina Quilt, made in 1939 and lost from a bedroom closet in Mississippi when the house was washed away during the storm. After the storm, the quilt was dredged from the mud and returned to its owner. Other items of interest at the show include friendship quilt patterns, Cooper Quilt lapel pins, and quilt books showing photographs of last year's 189 quilts that will be available for purchase. Quilt blocks designed and colored by local students will also be on display.quilts were featured in the Hickman County Times, will be present to discuss their quilts. Also during the show, quilters from Centerville First United Methodist Church will provide a quilting demonstration for show visitors. Show admission is free, and free parking is provided. The show is open to the public from 12 pm-4pm on Friday, October 5th, and 10 am-4pm on Saturday, October 6th. The location of the show is Centerville First Baptist Church at 123 Church Street, Centerville, Tennessee, 37033. For more information about the quilt show, please contact Ruth Ann Carathers by phone (931) 670-4998, by mail at 3117 Highway 100, Centerville, Tennessee, 37033, or by email snipped-for-privacy@centerville.net or Bettye T. Griffin by phone (931)
729-5437, by mail at 901 Highway 50, Centerville, Tennessee, 37033, or by email snipped-for-privacy@mlec.net.