International 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.

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.

5 posts published by Sandi during June 2013

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Hey friends! I just returned from the 2017 Houston Quilt Show and have some tips for anyone who might want to attend in the future. 5 Lessons from my trip to the 2017 Houston International Quilt Festival http://scissortailquilting.com/uncategorized/2017-houston-international-quilt-festival/

Amazing fan quilt

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My exhibit “Specimens” opened this past Wednesday evening at the International Quilt Festival in Houston. It has run for the last two and half days and continues until the end of the fe…

Beautiful quilt !

This stunning art quilt is titled 'Water is Life, So Why are We Doing This'. It's the work of quilt artist Thom Atkins. Thom created this quilt as a commentary on what we are doing to our oceans. He embellished the wall hanging with distressed plastic, pearls, beads and shells to create something that he felt was both beautiful and terrifying. This piece was machine appliquéd and quilted. See more of Thom's work on his website at http://www.thomatkins.com/

The Pacific International Quilt Festival is the largest quilt show on the west coast of the U.S.A. Many thanks to our good friend, quilt art...

This is post 2 of 3. Please check the blog for the others if you wish to see all the quilts that I captured. Let's start with the winner of the Founders' Award. This is called Fantastic! and is by Junk Fujiwara of Narashino, Chiba, Japan. Junko writes, "I began this work to celebrate the birth of my first granddaughter four years ago. I was excited I made 16 blocks, especially with the flowers that I love. I used a lot of cloth. By combining small pieces, the leaves and flowers all look…

Image from Pacific International Quilt Festival XXI

Art quilting involves the use of both modern and traditional quilting techniques to create art objects, which are often displayed on the wal...

January 26 – Australia Day. Normally spent eating BBQs and pavlovas and meat pies. But this year? What better way to spend it than at the Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival 2013 with Danielle, a new friend from Western Australia! Note – most of the name plates were solely in Japanese but I’ve named the […]

Ruffled feathers by Roxanne Nelson APWQ Tacoma 2011

Beauty in the Broken on a black backdrop by Kathy K. Wylie; Kathy K Wylie creates intricate, detail-rich and award-winning quilts that encourage the viewer to take a closer look.

Get ready for a feast for your eyes. Yesterday's visit to the Craft and Quilt Fair ended with a visit to the quilt section where quilts were entered in various competitions. The collection of quilts was magnificent. Here are a few for you to marvel at. Made with tiny hexies. dazzling colours... complicated New York style. Then came the appliques and they were amazing! Australian wild flowers each flower made up of many pieces of material - Bottlebrush then embellished by stitching - Banksia…

We had a fabulous time at the 2015 Pacific International Quilt Festival , the largest quilt show on the Pacific coast of the U.S. Beautifu...

This is a detail of the quilt. The sand was all beaded and the ocean was many layers of sheer with fish on every layer so it looked 3D!