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.

I was really happy to visit the Houston International Quilt Festival this year. It was amazing! There were over 400 quilts on display, many of them stop-in-your-tracks gorgeous. I used restraint with my photography, focusing on the ones demonstrating something new or other interesting characteristics. First, I had to visit my own quilt, Jubilation. It was […]

Okan Arts Quilting & Textile Tours to Japan are open for booking. To learn more +click here By Patricia Belyea TOKYO JP Three days after a traffic-stopping snowstorm hit the most populated city in the world, the Tokyo Quilt Festival opened its doors. Here are oodles of photos from Opening Day so you can vicariously tour the show floor. NOTE: This is only a thimbleful of the quilts exhibited! Most of the credits were listed in Japanese. I have included the artists’ names when they were…

2024 - The Festival of Quilts

Today was the last day of the Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival. detail, Keiko Goke, 2017 I went on four separate days. The good thing is that I got my route (walk, train, walk to transfer, train, walk) down to a science, and got to see some of my favorite quilts more than once. The other good thing is that I got to see and experience the show with various friends on two of the days, which was such a pleasure! Crowds got thinner as the days went on but wowsa, the first day was packed…

(Someone pointed out that I had not included a picture of myself in front of my quilt in the last post...this is right after the Winner's Circle big reveal program was over. Thank you to whoever grabbed my camera and got the picture!) Ready for the show??? The first 8 quilts are the big money winners. I "borrowed" the first pictures of each quilt from the quilts.org website, where they are flat, square, and true-colored, LOL. But I am not sure you can zoom in on their pics for details, so I…

Some of the quilts in the Traditional category really played with the idea of a Traditional quilt. I think in the UK many of these would be classed as Contemporary, at least for the purposes of Festival of Quilts. The fabric assortments were quite amazing, with the quilts having a very retro, scrap bag feeling, but seemingly made from modern fabrics. There were lots of incredible fabrics printed with text too - I love these and wish I'd bought more of this kind of print when I was at the…

These are some of my favorite quilts from the 2019 Pacific International Quilt Festival. There were so many gorgeous quilts to look at!

2024 - The Festival of Quilts