New This Year

Every year the Quilt Festival gets better and better! It is so exciting to be able to use one of the new buildings at Trinity Assembly for our starting point. It is so spacious with high ceilings, great lighting, and a grassy area outside where we will have crafter's booths (new this year too). 

The crafters' area and the Country Store at the Algood Senior Center will not have an entry fee. We know that not everyone enjoys quilts (though we can't understand that) so be sure to invite your friends and neighbors to come and enjoy shopping with us.

Entry fee is still $6.00. If you purchase in advance the price will be $5.00 and you can pick up your advance ticket at the Algood Senior Center or Jackson Bank & Trust in Algood.

Join us for a Quilt Barn Tour on Friday, Sept. 16th at 9 A.M. This all-inclusive tour includes lunch and transportation along with insider visits with barn and quilt owners on the trail - all for a price of $39.00. Call 931.372.6047 for reservations. See the photos from last year's tour.

The quilters at the Algood Senior Center have once again made a quilt that will be given to the winning ticket holder. You can get a FREE ticket for the drawing when you purchase a piece of candy at the Algood Senior Center or Jackson Bank & Trust in Algood for $1 or 6/$5.00. Buy a lot and increase your chances!

We have added the capability to submit your quilt entries to us online. You can fill the form out online and save yourself a stamp! See the new form here.

We hope you will enjoy the improvements we have made this year!

Quilts, Quilts, Quilts!!

Upper Cumberland Quilt Festival Wants YOUR Quilts!!!!

There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of women and men in the Upper Cumberland area that love quilts, enjoy quilting and own some of the most beautiful quilts ever made. Don’t keep them hidden in that cedar chest or closet – get them out and show them off.

Those of you who quilt…

After spending hours and hours shopping for fabric, cutting, sewing, quilting, binding your quilt, now is the time to display your labor of love for everyone else to see.

Those of you who own quilts…

Don’t keep Mom’s or Grandma’s quilts hidden in a chest or trunk. Show them off with pride in your family’s heritage.

We want you to enter your quilts in order to share your talent and to encourage the perpetuation of quilting to a younger generation - be it a utility quilt or a piece of art.

To see the quilts hanging is comforting to the body and stirs the imagination in the soul. Who knows what influence your quilt can make on a beginner quilter or even on a seasoned quilter?

So enter your quilts in the Upper Cumberland Quilt Festival - we want to see all your quilts: Challenge, wall hangings, bed quilts, antique -- all quilts are eligible for "Viewer's Choice" and ribbons are awarded to all quilts except the antique ones. You and your quilts are a fundraiser for the Algood Senior Center.

You can now submit your quilt entries to us online.  See the new form here.  The deadline for getting the quilt entry forms to us in September 1, 2011.

We will be looking for you to bring those quilts on

Monday, September 12, 2011 at the
Algood Community Center
between the hours of 7:45a and 6p

2011 Challenge Quilt

"Tennessee Treasures" is the theme for the challenge quilt. Some of these treasures are the state symbols.

Amphibian: Tennessee Cave Salamander
Animal: Racoon
Bird: Mockingbird
Fish (commercial): Channel Catfish
Fish (sport): Largemouth Bass
Fruit: Tomato
Insects: Firefly and Ladybug
Reptile: Eastern Box Turtle
Flower: Iris
Gem: Tennessee Pearl
Tree: Tulip Poplar

Quilts must measure at least 20 inches, but no more than 36 inches, in height and in width.