Museum volunteer Eileen Sebastian, an accomplished quilter, plans to enter some of her pieces this year. One is done in the kaleidoscope pattern, and the other is wall hanging in an African violets pattern in which the flowers are three-dimensional by use of yo-yos, fabric circles with the edges turned under and secured with a running stitch. “You make the yo-yos and then you cinch up the yo-yos to make the petals,” Sebastian said.

Sebastian started quilting in the 1990s. “I always wanted to quilt,” she said. “It’s relaxing, it’s calming — most of the time. It can be frustrating when you get a knot in your thread or you have to rip out a seam because you put it in wrong!”

Anyone is welcome to submit a quilted piece for display in the quilt show. “We’re looking for more participants,” said Barbara Davis, another museum volunteer and a member of the Quilt Show Committee. “You don’t have to live in Greenback to enter.”

In addition, raffle tickets will be sold for $5 each at the museum, which is open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, or from any museum volunteer. Funds raised will go toward the Hardware Building Restoration Project for the new Greenback Heritage Museum Building. First prize is a bee-themed quilt and sham donated by Terri Ayers at Mountain Creek Quilt Shop; second prize is a vintage bowtie quilt donated by museum volunteer Cindy Benefield that was hand pieced and quilted by her aunt, the late Elsie (Penny) Lewis; and third prize is a Longaberger basket filled with sewing notions. Museum volunteer Jennifer Hedrick said, “The basket will have quilt patterns, fabrics, thread — and maybe some chocolate. Every creative person needs chocolate!”