Once again this year the Delta Museum is getting into the spirit this weekend with a special display.
In honour of the annual Quilt Walk Classic Car Show, the museum is pulling out a number of antique quilts from its archives for its Historical Quilt Walk display.
The museum has an assortment of handmade quilts dating back to the mid-1800s in its collection.
Traditionally, women made quilts as gifts to mark special occasions, such as weddings or the birth of a baby.
Many of the patterns incorporate smaller pieces of fabric from worn out clothing and served to become historical documents for the quilt maker and his or her loved ones.
Last year, the museum debuted a new addition to the collection - a "crazy" quilt that dates back to the late 19th century.
The quilt was made by Mary Raby Cruikshank and, based on the fabric used, it's believed that it dates back to the late 1800s.
The quilt features a background of mostly dark swatches of fabric with bright and colourful pieces added in and joined together with decorative embroidery stitches.
One of the better-known quilts at the museum is also done in the crazy quilting style.
Delta pioneer Isabella McKee Curtis created it in the 1880s. She used lush scraps of velvet, silk and cotton. She also used inventive embroidery stitches used to join the patches together. Curtis's grandson, Ted Curtis, donated the quilt to the museum.
The antique quilts will be on display throughout the museum's recreated period rooms.
The museum, which is on the corner of Delta and Bridge streets, will be open from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Sunday.
Admission is by donation.
