Receiving the Best Theme Award at the 2024 Mid-Ohio Valley Heritage Quilt show was Stars N’ Stripes by Pearl Mize. The 21st annual Mid-Ohio Valley Heritage Quilt Show will be held Nov. 8-16 at the Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History, 137 Juliana St. (Photo Provided)

PARKERSBURG – The 21st annual Mid-Ohio Valley Heritage Quilt Show will be held Nov. 8-16 at the Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History at 137 Juliana St.

The theme of the 2025 show will be “Critters.” Admission is the price to get in the museum, $4 for adults and $2 for children 4-12, organizer Brenda Wentzel said.

The show also includes speakers and programs.

At 2 p.m. Nov. 8, “Every Quilt Tells a Story” will be presented by Susan Springston Pierce, who was raised in Vienna and lives in North Carolina. The program will include a trunk show with 25 quilts of original designs based on family history, historic events and places, of which the patterns are available for sale.

Admission is $5.

West Virginia by Nicole Winters, an entry last year in the Mid-Ohio Valley Heritage Quilt Show. Master quilt makers will display their work from Nov. 8-16 at the Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History at 137 Juliana St. (Photo Provided)

Pierce is self-taught and has quilted for 35 years. She designs her quilts based on family history, Civil War events and historic sites. In some cases, the stories behind every quilt have hidden meanings in their design.

She has presented her program and workshops to quilt guilds in several states.

Pierce began working for Pineapple Fabrics, sister company to Keepsake Quilting, in 2015. One of her designs appeared in Better Homes & Gardens Quilt Sampler Magazine

“Textiles Across America” will be presented at 2 p.m. Nov. 9 by Mary Roediger, a local author, teacher and textile artist. Cost is $5.

The slide-show program, a virtual road trip to interesting American sites, all with textiles in plain sight, will include discussions of textile pieces and quilts she has found in recent travels in the United States.

Metro Ring Quilt by Bonita Lowe at the 2024 Mid-Ohio Valley Veritage Quilt Show. The 21st annual Mid-Ohio Valley Heritage Quilt Show will be held Nov. 8-16 at the Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History, 137 Juliana St. (Photo Provided)

Roediger is a certified master clothing educator and adviser with the Ohio 4-H Clothing and Textiles Program. She is the author of the Ohio 4-H clothing project book, “Em-bel-lish – A Guide to Wearable Art.”

She also is a county and state 4-H judge and is a member of the board of the Ohio 4-H Foundation. Using her background in textiles and garment construction, Roediiger is working on quilt research and textile arts.

“Sleep in Heavenly Peace,” a program about building beds for children who don’t have one so they don’t sleep on the floor, will be sponsored by the Ripley Rotary Club at 10 a.m. Nov. 15. Volunteers will build beds from scratch and no experience needed.

Donations of money and twin size sheets, pillowcases, blankets and quilts will be accepted. For more information about the program, contact Steve Jackson at PO Box 249, Ripley, WV 25271, or go to Facebook: Sleep In Heavenly Peace-WV, Jackson CO.

Making a wool applique sewing journal cover will be presented noon-5 p.m. Nov. 15. The project to make a journal to keep sewing projects organized will be completed in the class.

Cost is $35 for the kit that includes the journal, wool, buttons, pins for decoration, a sheet of heat and bond and a sewing needle for wool. Participants will need to bring sharp scissors,

small iron, extension cord, small ironing pad, perle cotton threads size 8 or 12 or embroidery threads.

Registration is required. To register and for additional information, call Beverly Neff at 740-423-1965 at Neff’s Country Loft.