Ty Cobb Museum Added to Historic Quilt Trail

Royston’s Ty Cobb Museum is now part of the Historic Quilt Trail.

Last week, a group of chamber, government and museum leaders and employees gathered to unveil the new quilt.

The Franklin County Quilt Trail is presented by the Lavonia Chamber of Commerce which paints and installs the quilt squares.

Julie Ridgeway is the Curator and Director of the Ty Cobb Museum.  Ridgeway said she wanted to do something special to recognize the 75th anniversary of Ty Cobb’s induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

“I started thinking about ways to promote the museum this year and got with the Chamber and you know, for the money, it was just a no brainer,” Ridgeway said.

Ridgeway said she didn’t want a regular quilt pattern, but something that evoked the spirit of the museum, Ty Cobb, and baseball.  So, she began working on a design herself.

“We were told we could look in a book of different designs, but I thought, there’s really nothing baseball in there,” she said. “So I put my thinking cap on and came up with a design that surprisingly, you loved.”

Ridgeway said while coming up with the design for the quilt square, it reminded her of watching her grandmother make quilts when she was growing up.

“It really took me down a nostalgic road,” she said.

The Ty Cobb quilt is the 27th quilt square in Franklin County and is now part of the National Quilt Trail.