Brackens, 93, named the quilt the Texas Star. When she completed it only a few years after retiring in 1987, many people tried to purchase the piece from her, offering thousands of dollars.

so we helped quilt it with my mother, Helen, and a friend named Marge Weisheit. Note the Texas theme: the feathered five-pointed star; the four-pointed stars, known as Texas Tears, for the ...

The Quilt Festival now over, Nyberg said some museums have expressed interest in exhibiting the star-filled panels, and, in between those displays, the blocks will be going to the Texas Quilt ...