Events

The Horry County Museum will host a free program by local quilter Pat Sprecher on Friday, March 20th at 1 pm on creating Scrappy Quilts. Join us to view different examples of scrappy quilts and learn about the many types of patterns that can be used!

Pat took a class several years ago on scrappy quilts by Augusta Cole and fell in love with her patterns. She has made several of her scrappy curved log cabins, snappy scrappy stars and snappy square quilts. While Pat has kept a few for herself, she mainly uses these patterns to use scraps for her charity sewing, which she feels is a perfect way to not only use up scraps, but provide for those in need.

The Horry County Museum will host a free program by JoAnn Zeise on Saturday, March 21st at 1 PM. Join us as JoAnn uses images to show some of the finest examples of quilts in the South Carolina State Museum’s collections. The quilts and bedding go back over 200 years and are from all over the state. JoAnn will also discuss patterns, design, history, and culture through those bed pieces. There are also some exciting new acquisitions to be shared!

JoAnn Zeise is the curator of Cultural History at the South Carolina State Museum. She graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in Public History. She has been at the State Museum for almost 7 years and was at McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina before that. Originally from Pennsylvania, she lives in the Dutch Fork area of Columbia and has been in the midlands for 20 years.

The Horry County Museum will host a free program by quilter Kathleen Stuart on March 24th on Wholecloth Quilts. When it comes to “traditional” quilts, Kathy prefers to make wholecloth quilts using the traditional medallion style, however, she likes to use luxe fabrics such as silk dupioni or sateen and often incorporates machine embroidery. Kathy also likes to use fabric paints on her wholecloth quilts and Swarovski crystals.

Originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Kathy now lives in North Carolina so that she can enjoy the warmer weather. She has been interested in every aspect of fiber since the age of four, having tried almost every technique including knitting, crochet, needlepoint, tatting, macramé and quilting, although she didn’t begin to quilt until 2001.