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.

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.

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 […]

I was very fortunate to have been invited to attend the Opening Ceremony. I asked my friend Julie of My Quilt Diary to join me. Julie will also be reporting from the show so do head over to read her blog posts. The show is held in Tokyo Dome, a gigantic indoor baseball field. The opening ceremony is a serious affair as you can see from these pictures. On the left are four men representing Tokyo Dome, NHK (the Japanese state run broadcasting company that is the organiser of the show), Yomiuri…

So here in the UK the annual Festival of Quilts event is fast approaching. I know this because I am frantically sewing up two projects that will be on display there (hopefully!). I do this EVERY year! Leave everything to the last minute! The Festival of Quilts is held every year at the end of

You can learn to quilt on small projects just as easily as on big quilts! Here's a big list of easy, small quilt projects that you can make, that aren't entire quilts.

The time is here! It's Quilt Week in the Quilting Capitol of the world, Paducah Kentucky! It was a time of firsts for us at Quilted Joy since for the first time EVER we had our first booth at the Show and we also co-ordinated TWO Quilt Fairy Magic busses for 100 of our fellow quilt lovers! A Quilted Joy First Our cozy