An estimated 1,200 people showed up for the 6th annual Piney Woods Heritage Festival held at the arboretum Friday alone, followed by a much smaller crowd Saturday, said Senior Curator Patricia Drackett. Item photo/Jeremy Pittari Square Dancers take to the floor under the Pinecote Pavilion at the Crosby Arboretum during the 6th Annual Piney Woods Heritage Festival last weekend. Call the Picayune Item today at 601 798-47 . Call the Picayune Item Classifieds and ask about Premium ads. Popular Business directory links - Picayune Apartments | Picayune Attorneys | Picayune Auto Dealers | Picayune Auto Parts | Picayune Auto Repair | Picayune Beauty Salons | Picayune Car Rental | Picayune Dentists | Picayune Doctors | Picayune Flowers | Picayune Hotels | Picayune Insurance | Picayune Loans | Picayune Mortgages | Picayune Movers | Picayune Pizza | Picayune Realtors | Picayune Restaurants | Picayune Storage | Picayune Tax Preparation | Picayune Travel | Picayune Featured | More.

Sometimes, she'll put on a dress only to find it has a gaping hole where she's cut out fabric for one of her quilts. She brought her quilts to the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center on Sunday afternoon for the first in a series of four trunk shows that supplements the center's annual Quilts=Art=Quilts exhibit. Karen Janeen Weeks came to Sunday's trunk show from Syracuse, where she meets every Saturday morning with Conte-Gaugel as part of a quilting group at the Beauchamp Library. But in 1999, she discovered the fascination of quilting after a Judy Dales' slide show introduced her to the world of art quilts.

Her backdrops are a small town, its community, a quilting shop and circle, and four female characters. Evelyn meets a local restaurant owner, Charlie Donnelly, who becomes a wonderful supporter of her and her shop, Cobbled Court Quilts. Women will come together to piece a block that will become part of a larger quilt, which will then be auctioned off to benefit breast cancer research. While an exhausted Evelyn shows three women an appliqué technique after the event (which was very successful), she pricks her finger and blurts out her diagnosis.

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Since November 17 is Homemade Bread Day, Penny Halgren, master quilt block maker, took the opportunity to demonstrate sewing a traditional patchwork quilt block in keeping with the theme. Most of the time quilt block patterns are made by dividing the block into a grid with the same number of patches across as there are up and down. The Bread Basket quilt block can be pieced by combining several patches, thus saving the quilter valuable time and money, and possibly freeing them up to make a loaf or two of homemade bread! The Bread Basket pattern, plus hundreds of other traditional quilt block patterns and free Christmas fabric postcard patterns are available on the site.