Piecers of the Heartland Quilt Guild is holding their 2nd quilt show at the Canton High School on Saturday May 3rd. We will be having vendors, door prizes, a bed turning, concessions, demonstrations, 2nd hand treasures & raffle quilt to be raffled off that day. We are to have over 400 quilts to view. Shoud you have questions, contact Rich at rexyukonpro@peoplepc.com.
Come to a fun day of quilting!
~~~March 28-29, 2008
Oklahoma City, OK
Theme: Patriotic, Stars and Stripes, Support our Troops or Spiritually Inspired from The Bible.
Deadline: March 26,2008. Exhibit Debuts March 28-29 to wrap up National Quilt Month. Details later.
No Entry Fees***$100 Exhibit Rental *** 100% profits go to charity quilting non-profit groups.
Schedule this exhibit for your quilt show, library, school, church now. BuckboardQuilts@cox.net.
All quilts will tour America for two years, possibly split into three separate exhibits: Patriotic, Biblical and Children’s. Quilts with your patterns and stories will possibly be published by Judy Howard, Dorcas Publishing, award-winning author of three quilt books. (See www.HeavenlyPatchwork.com)
Mail each quilt with signed consent/entry form below to arrive by March 26, 2008 to 5025 Brettshire Way, Oklahoma City, OK 73142. See www.HeavenlyPatchwork.com for updates.
Quilts will be 22” x 22” with a 4” opening sleeve sewn along the upper back and four plastic drapery rings spaced along the upper edge. Please include on the back of your quilt: title of quilt, your name, address, phone number and email.
Please also attach securely along the bottom of your quilt (that can be flipped up for shipping) a 16”wide by 6”high fabric quilted label that includes the quilt title, your name, town and state, and a brief story of what inspired you to make the quilt. You can type, embroider, cross-stitch or paint it on fabric, quilt it and coordinate it as part of your quilt art. Please include the sales price and contact info if quilt is for sale. You will deal directly with the buyer and receive 100% of proceeds.
Please write a 20-100 word story about your quilt—what inspired you, your name, address, phone, email, quilt title and your quilt pattern with instructions (pattern optional) and email to BuckboardQuilts@cox.net. If you’d like to sell your pattern with instructions with 100% proceeds going to you, include your contact info and price on the quilted label. Or if you’d like to print out your pattern with instructions for each venue to sell for you, mention that patterns are available at the front desk on your quilt label. The venue will keep 20% of the pattern cost for their work selling it.
Categories for judging for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place ribbons: Best of Show, Best Theme, Most Original, Best Handwork. Best Machine work, Best Art, Best Contemporary, Best Traditional, Best Crazy, Best Applique, Best Pieced, Best Youth under 18, Best Youth under 12, Best Mixed, Best Pictorial. Judges reserve right to switch categories.
March 28-29, 2008
Kennewick, WA
The Tri-City Quilters’ Guild invites you to attend its 25th Anniversary Quilt Show and Merchant Mall. The show will feature over 400 quilts, a large merchant mall, raffle quilt, antique sewing machine exhibit, and a workshop by our National Featured Artist, Evelyn Sloppy.
WHEN: Friday, Mar. 28, 2008 10-7pm Saturday, Mar. 29, 2008 10-5pm
WHERE: Three Rivers Convention Center, 7016 W. Grandridge Blvd, Kennewick, WA. Take the Columbia Center Blvd. Exit, off Hwy 240. Turn left on W. Grandridge. COST: $5.00 Donation at the door
MORE INFORMATION: www.tcquilters.com or tcquilters@verizon.net
April 4 - 5, 2008
Satellite Beach, FL
Seaside Piecemakers Quilt Club is sponsoring a judged quilt show of over 300 quilts from bed quilts to miniatures, as well as wearable arts. A certified quilt appraiser will be available on site, as well as merchants and our guild’s shop, Attic Treasures. There will be door prizes, auctions and raffles, and our opportunity quilt for raffle. For more information check out our web site www.s-piecemakers.com or e-mail seaside_guild@yahoo.com.
April 15, 2008
Wabash, IN
Sew Pieceful and Creative Threaders Quilting Guilds of Wabash County, Indiana will welcome over 1000 Quilters to the Honeywell Center for the 18th Annual Gathering of Quilters on April 5th, 2008. A show of Quilts crafted by area Quilters and Celebrity Quilt artists, shopping in vendor’s booths, lectures and luncheon will provide a full day of activities for participants from Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio. Guest speaker, Joen Wolfrom, author of Color Play and Visual Coloring, will focus on the event theme …The Magical World of Color!
Joen’s lecture during the morning program will be “It’s Color That Makes the Quilts go WOW!” The registration fee is $30, which includes admission to the quilt show and vendors, the commemorative pin and buffet luncheon if received by March 1st. Joen’s afternoon lecture is “Creating Fascinating Quilts from Traditional Roots” . Admission charge for the afternoon is $10, no pre-registration required.
Each year this event is hosted by a different group in a different city. Wabash holds a unique distinction in the quilt world as the birthplace of Marie Daugherty Webster who pioneered the quilt revival of the 1920’s and authored the first definitive book about quiltmaking in 1915. To aid in the preservation of this past for the future, a portion of the proceeds will go to benefit the Wabash County Historical Museum.
Admission charge to view the Quilt Show is $5.00 . Hours are 8 am – 4 pm.
To learn more visit the web site: www.colorsgonewild.com/thegathering
May 1-4, 2008
Luxemburg, Germany
3 International Quiltfestival Wilwerwiltz (Luxemburg)
May 01-04.2008
For more information, visit www.quiltfestival.eu.tc.
May 3, 2008
Canton, IL
Piecers of the Heartland will be holding their 2nd show on May 3, 2008 at the Canton High School from 9am-4PM. Address is 1001 N Main Canton, IL. Admission is $5.00.
The theme for the show is “Showers of Quilts”. There will be many quilted items, vendors, door prizes, a raffle quilt, bed turning, concession, demonstrations & 2nd hand treasures.
Any information you need/have to present, please contact Richard Eaves at rexyukonpro@peoplepc.com or PO Box 181 Liverpool, IL 61543.
May 3, 2008
Boulder City, NV
This is an Outdoor Quilt Show for one day in conjunction with the Boulder City Jamboree sponsored by the BC Chamber of Commerce. The contact
person at this time is Merry Summey, owner of Fiddlesticks Quilts of Boulder City, a sponsor for the quilt show.
Fiddlesticks Quilts - 702-293-2979
E-mail address - fiddlesticksquilts@qmail.com
or msum212@hotmail.com.
May 8-10, 2008
Salt Lake City, UT
The Home Machine Quilting Show presented by the Home Machine Quilting Association (HMQA) is the premier consumer exhibition and hands-on educational show for all machine quilters and embroiderers. The Home Machine Quilting Show features more than 150 vendor booths, free demonstrations from experts in the field, a quilt display of 250+ gorgeous machine-quilted quilts, a judged quilt competition with over $15,000+ in cash awards and prizes, and classes from more than 20 of the nation’s top machine quilting and embroidery instructors.
For more information visit, http://www.hmqs.org/index.html
~~~May 14-17, 2008
Loch Lomond, Scotland
Competition entry forms needed by 31st March. Website is www.lochlomondquiltshow.com which has details of competitions, tutors, and exhibitions.
Held in spectacular scenery over several venues, this show gives you a chance to reflect on exhibitions while travelling the short distances between buildings, and to see outside as well as inside of local churches, to sample the wonderful hospitality in the area, and to see the beautiful Loch Lomond and surrounding hills and glens.
There are also very popular social events to occupy evenings, with a cruise on the Loch, a ceilidh and after the prize giving, a lovely meal in the Kilted Skirlie overlooking the Loch.
Please note, because the exibitions are held in church buildings, the show starts on a Wednesday and finishes Saturday, so please arrange your travel dates carefully so that you don’t miss the show! More details on the website.
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