The Charleston Museum Quilting Bee

Calling all quilters!

The Charleston Museum invites you to participate in a new program, the Charleston Museum Quilting Bee. We need your help to kick it off!

Our first project will be based on a Chimney Sweep album quilt in the Museum’s collection. This sweet 1853 quilt, pictured left, is believed to have been made for a bride by her friends in Sumter, South Carolina. Click for more information about the original quilt.

We have completed Phase One of the project. Blocks were contributed from all over the United States and even Europe. View contributed blocks

After the selected blocks are prepared for quilting, Phase Two of the Charleston Museum Quilting Bee begins. The album quilt will be out for Museum visitors to try their hand at quilting two Saturdays per month. Please consider volunteering to assist the public with hand-quilting of this project. Volunteer for just one Saturday or sign up for once-a-month duty – the choice is yours!

For more information, please contact Rachel Chesser at (843) 722-2996 ext. 235 or rchesser@charlestonmuseum.org.