International quilt festival

You can find Part 1 here. I will write next week about the experience, teaching and the wonderful people I met! See Part 1 of the Houston quilts here along with an explanation of how I selec…

I am finally home after starting my travel in August and being away through the first week of November. I ended the travel in Houston for Market and Festival or what I call, the main quilting event of the year. I would have never guessed I would have to worry... Continue reading »

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.

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.

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.

Here is the last part in my series of reports from the 13th Tokyo International Great Quilt Show 2014. Of the many excellent exhibitions outside the contest, one features the work of Shizuko Kuroha. She is famous for seeing the potential in Japanese indigo, and creates fantastic quilts with depth, glow, sheen and lustre, in spite of using mainly blue indigo, with a sprinkling of black, white, brown or red. In this exhibition Japanese weaving technique was also shown: The white tread is…

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 […]

This one is from last year, but you can be sure there will be equally fantastic offerings in 2020! (“Memories” by Reiko Hatakeyama, 2019) I won’t be in town for the Tokyo Internat…