In March and April 2026, Texas Crochet Heritage and Celebrate Doilies were the first exhibits ever in the brand new Aransas County Community Center on N. Live Oak Street in Rockport, Texas. Exciting times!
Jennifer Day of the Rockport Cultural Arts District, along with her talented colleague, Pam, decided to display the panels of Texas Crochet Heritage on table-top easels. There are forty-five panels in all. Community quilts and family heirlooms from Rockport added color and a touch of home to the exhibits.
Pam spent a great deal of time working out how to display my quilts on wall-panels to their best advantage. “Arranging art exhibits used to be my superpower,” she told me. Pam. It still is your superpower.
On the exhibits’ last day, Sandi Horton and I gave our Crochet Connections presentation. It’s a slide show with music, where we talk about how crochet connects people over time and miles. Some connections seem almost spiritual. There’s one doily story in which I can’t quite decide what is happening. I asked the audience, “What do you call this? Coincidence? Synchronicity? Or what?” A lady in the audience exclaimed, “That was destiny!”
Taking down an exhibit is way quicker than putting it up. So not long after our talk, Sandi and I were on the road with a car full of quilts. We stopped for lunch before heading on to our rendezvous with Sandi’s husband. Then I drove alone for another couple of hours and arrived home before dark.
