Quilt festival

Every year, thousands of quilters and quilt lovers descend on Houston, Texas for the International Quilt Festival and Quilt Market. This year, Quilt Festival is from November 2-5, 2023. Many attendees’ favorite part of their annual trip is seeing the Festival Judged Show presented by Quilts, Inc.

Isn't this pretty? It won best hand quilting at the Shipshewana Quilt Festival. Again, I apologize ahead of time for my photography...I could not use my flash. The next one was the winner for best machine quilting. I liked this pink and brown first place winner in the small pieced category. And the winner for large pieced quilt is... (Sorry...I wasn't completely still...I really do better with a flash...) I loved the top and bottom borders... This is the winner in the small applique…

It is the largest quilt show in the world. Visit the Tokyo Quilt Festival at the end of Jan. to see masterpieces of Japan's best textile artists on display.

I was really happy to visit the Houston International Quilt Festival this year. It was amazing! There were over 400 quilts on display, many of them stop-in-your-tracks gorgeous. I used restraint with my photography, focusing on the ones demonstrating something new or other interesting characteristics. First, I had to visit my own quilt, Jubilation. It was […]

These are some of my favorite quilts from the 2019 Pacific International Quilt Festival. There were so many gorgeous quilts to look at!

Angela shares some of her favorite quilts from the quilt show in Paducah, KY April 2016, including the quilt she would have awarded Best of Show.

2024 - The Festival of Quilts

2024 - The Festival of Quilts

Every year I wait anxiously to hear who won the big awards at International Quilt Festival in Houston. Last night, the Handi Quilter Best of Show Award went to Sherry Reynolds of Laramie, Wyoming for Eternal Beauty. According to the Houston Chronicle, the quilt was inspired by her late mother, Carolyn Craven, who died […]

Estimated reading time: 12 minutes Update October 2019: I am traveling again this year to the Houston International Quilt Festival and will be writing