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.

QUILTS: A WORLD OF BEAUTY CATEGORY AWARDS (continued from previous two posts) 1st - $1,000 2nd - $700 3rd - $300 MINIATURE QUILTS (sponsored by TrueCut) 1st - "Streak of Lightning" Amy Pabst Leroy, West Virginia USA 2nd - "Raven's Flight" Gretchen Adams Afton, New York USA 3rd - "Measure For Measure" Philippa Naylor Beverly, East Yorkshire UNITED KINGDOM MINIATURE, ART (sponsored by Janome America) 1st - "Eastern Bluebird" Barbara Mickie Lyme, Connecticut USA 2nd - "Born in Formosa" Chih…

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.

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 was out first visit to the Festival of Quilts and much like the Knitting and Stitching Show, it is vast. As well as the hundreds of independent stalls selling their wares (everything a quilter…

I don't know if I've told you before, but I learned how to quilt while I lived in Japan in 2002. Japanese housewife culture, including their approach to quilting, has always fascenated me. I should have been an anthropologist and studied that more intensely, I know, but I got caught up in trying to communicate and became an ESL teacher instead. Anyway.. I discovered flickr in 2006 and the quilts I saw there lead me to start blogging about quilting. Tonight I want to share a handful of my…

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"The Breath of Life" by Harumi Asada Incredible detail in the hand applique here. This one was really stunning.

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…