Appalachian Quilt Trail
The Appalachian Quilt Trail comes to downtown Athens, Tennessee. Take a tour through time as you participate in the Civil War Heritage Walking Tour in historic downtown Athens. Keep your eyes open as you see the beautiful hand-painted quilt blocks decorating the buildings around town and on barns in the scenic countryside!
Walking Tour
Athens is proud to claim the laregest display of quick blocks at 16 quilt patterns. Take the time to view our AQT walking tour brochure "Patterns from the Past: Civil War Heritage Walking Tour"(download here) and learn the names of the quilt blocks, their history, and the locations of these beautiful quilt blocks. To learn more about the Appalachian Quilt Trail, please visit their website.
Heritage Quilt Show
The Heritage Quilt Guild will be holding a quilt show at The Arts Center during Pumpkintown this year on Friday, October 8, 2010 10 a.m.to 5 p.m. and Saturday , October 9, 2010 from 10 a.m. to the close of the Pumpkintown Festival. Come see some of the beautiful quilt patterns and share our Civil War heritage. To find out how to enter a quilt, check here and download an entry form. Check out all the events at Pumpkintown!