By Shelley Ricker

The Tutwiler Community Education Center (TCEC) quilters will have hundreds of hand quilted items for sale this weekend at the Annual Fiber Arts Show at the Powerhouse, 413 S. 14th St., in Oxford.

Market hours are Thursday 3 to 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.    Quilted items available include bed quilts in twin, full, queen and king sizes, placemats in singles as well as sets, table runners, hot pads, bags, hot mitts, cell phone and tablet holders, lanyards and baby quilts. Prices begin at $5. The Tutwiler Quilters are a group of African-American women associated with TCEC in Tutwiler.

Ladies machine piece and then hand quilt items in their homes. TCEC provides all the material, thread and batting to the quilters for making the items. The products are sold through TCEC. The quilters receive 80 percent of the price of the items.

This quilting project helps preserve the African-American quilting tradition of the Mississippi Delta and also enables the women to earn money to support themselves and their families.

For more information about the Tutwiler Quilters, call Mary Mackey at 345-8393.