Quilts of all sizes and shapes are filling up the Brownwood Coliseum as the Heart of Texas Quilt Show is setting up for this weekend. The show is scheduled for April 28th & 29th, 10am-5pm on Saturday and noon to 4:00pm on Sunday, and the public is invited to view approximately 150 quilts, learn a little history, attend the quilting workshop and support a great cause, the Pearl Griffin Memorial Latch Key Program.
Pictured above is the center of the coliseum lined with quilts which were judged Friday afternoon. Awards were given including the Brownwood Mayor’s Choice Award selected by Mayor Stephen Haynes and Guild Choice. Saturday morning, Mayor Robert Mangrum of Early and Howard Payne President Bill Ellis will select their Early Mayor’s Choice and HPU President’s Choice awards respectively. The show is a viewer’s choice
The annual raffle quilt of this year’s show is titled “Baskets Galore,” which was pieced by members of the guild and quilted by Angela McCorkle. The quilt will be given away on Sunday, April 29th, at 3:30pm. A portion of the proceeds for the raffle quilt will go to the Latch Key program in Brownwood.
A workshop will be taught by Kate Ackley. Kate has a degree in Clothing & Textile Design and had a career in Costume Design in university and community theaters. She started quilting in the early 1970’s and has been teaching quilting and conducting lectures for the past 20 years. She also developed a set of rubber stamps which has revolutionized the making of single-unit designs. By Kate, her line of rubber stamps and permanent fabric ink pads along with her techniques, allows the quilter to quickly, easily and precisely make traditional patterns based on hexagons, diamonds and other shapes. Kate will be providing a lecture at 2:30pm on Saturday afternoon during the quilt show which is based on the history of quilts.
There will also be an “Old Fashioned Bed Turning” at the show. The bed turning will be held at 11:30am and 3:30pm on Saturday and 2:30 pm on Sunday. Back in the day, ladies would make quilts and layer them on their beds. When the quilting bee/group would come to their home, they would take them into the bedroom and show each quilt and tell its story, turn it down to the foot of the bed and then talk about the next one. At the show, organizers will have approximately 10 antique quilts with unique stories which will be presented in this same manner.
There will also be a guild project booth providing information about the charity projects that the guild is currently involved in. Door prizes will be given away throughout the weekend. There will even be a Quilt Show Shop Hop. Everyone who comes through the door will receive a vendor passport. Each attendee will take the passport to each vendor and have them stamp/sign it. When they get ready to leave they turn their passport in for a ticket. All the tickets go into a drawing and on Sunday afternoon a Quilter’s Goodie Basket valued at approximately $200.00 will be given away.
Be sure to attend the Heart of Texas Quilt Show April 28-29. Admission is $7 for quilters, husbands and children under 12 admitted free of charge.
For more information, please contact Angela McCorkle at 325-642-1544 or visit
Vendors setting up their booth
