| Sew pretty: Greenback Heritage Museum hosts 9th Annual Quilt Show
Quilts made after 2000 will be considered “new,” while those made in
prior years will be in the “old” category, Davis said.
In keeping with the museum’s tradition, cash prizes will be awarded
to the top three entries in each category as determined by “piggy
bank votes.” Each quilt is assigned a number, and the public can
vote for their favorites by putting pennies in the appropriate piggy
bank.
Cindy Benefield, also a museum volunteer, said, “People really get a
kick out of the piggy banks!”
Variety of entries
Benefield, a descendant of the McCollum family of Greenback, is
planning to enter several of the historic quilts, coverlets and
other items in her collection.
Some were handmade on the McCollum farm where her late grandparents,
Sam and Ruth McCollum, lived and worked.
Benefield now lives in the restored farmhouse, which was built
before the Civil War.
Among the treasures Benefield has is a brown and beige wool
coverlet.
She said sheep were raised on the farm, and the wool was carded,
loomed and woven into the coverlet on-site.
“It was given to me by Karen Ogle, who was given it by her
grandmother, Lou Kerr Anderson,” she said. “My second cousin
told me it needed to come home to the place where it was made.
It’s in impeccable shape.”
One of the quilts to be displayed was provided by Benefield’s
cousin, Dotty Neslen, from a pattern by internationally known
quilter Judy Martin. “She’s carried on the family tradition of
quilting,” Benefield said. Neslen also has loaned one of
Martin’s books to the museum. “When people bring quilts in, we
try to help identify them if they don’t know what the pattern
is,” Benefield said.
Anita McCollum is entering several quilts, some cross-stitched
and others pieced. “One of the quilts is from my
great-grandmother Sally Walker Fox, who was born in 1772 and
died in 1872,” McCollum said. “She was 100 when she died. She
was mostly blind, but she still crocheted and did those pieced
tops.”
McCollum also will enter a crocheted afghan in a ripple, or
chevron, pattern made by her grandmother, the late Archie
Ennis Reed King, and a pair of curtains with embroidered
edges.
The embroidery originally was done by her mother, the late
Jo King, on pillow cases that won first prize at the 1962
Tennessee Valley Agricultural & Industrial Fair in
Knoxville. “I made curtains out of them because the pillow
cases were full of moth holes,” McCollum said.
Davis, an accomplished quilter and crafter, showed several
items that can be considered in the “miscellaneous”
category. These include table toppers, table runners and a
crocheted doll.
The quilt show will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 5-7
at the Greenback Heritage Museum, 6725 Morganton Road,
Greenback.
Admission is free. Entries will be accepted from 10 a.m. to
2 p.m. Aug. 27, 30 and 31, at the museum. There is no entry
fee.
The annual quilt show is a way to introduce the community to
the holdings of the Greenback Heritage Museum, which
includes documents, books, pictures, farm tools, household
items, telephones, antique radios and business equipment
from the 1800s and early 1900s.
The Greenback Heritage Scrapbook, a compilation of
documents, pictures, newspaper clippings and articles
covering the history of the area from around 1800 until
recent times, also is available.
Learn more by visiting
gbmuseum.webs.com.
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