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HPA Quilt Show

Quilts are a new addition to the Homes for the Holidays Tour this weekend. They will be featured at the Beaux Arts Center at First Street and National Avenue.
Grace Kramer looks at the quilts on display at the Beaux Art Center Thursday during the Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce Coffee.

Quilts are an American form of art, Rhonda Dunn told attendees at the Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce Coffee Thursday morning.

Dunn said in her family a previous generation of sisters exchanged cloth handkerchiefs as presents. A few of the “hanky’s” are in quilts on display at the first-ever quilt show during the Homes for the Holiday Tour.

The quilts are part of an exhibit at the Beaux Arts Center, owned by Denise and Bobby Duncan, who live on the third floor of the center.

The center is just north of the Fort Scott Post Office on National Avenue.

People who purchase $15 Homes for the Holidays Tour tickets can view the quilts from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Tickets will allow entry to three featured homes, the quilt show and Presbyterian Village’s Christmas Tree Contest, 2401 S. Horton.

Deb Martin stands near a “hanky” quilt she made with her Grandmother Carrie Carpenter in the late 1980s.
Rhonda Dunn speaks during the Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce Coffee amid the quilts that will be on display in the Homes for the Holidays Tour.

 

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