The Country Patchwork Quilt Guild’s quilt show this fall — hosted at the YMCA — will feature at least six quilts and three quilters from the famous Alabama quilting collective, according to show coordinator Norma Jeane Ferguson of Marshall. Ferguson said the special exhibit fits the theme well — as a counterpoint, perhaps — because the Gee’s Bend quilt designs are rooted in the place they were created. What they had in terms of materials were, according to a 2002 art review in The New York Times, “old britches, cornmeal sacks, Sears corduroy swatches and hand-me-down leisure suits — whatever happened to be around, which was never much. Kimmelman heaps high praise on the work of the collective, noting that their quilts represent “some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced.

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