SPECIAL EVENTS

Come join the celebration at the 36th Annual International Quilt Festival /Houston November 4 through November 7 at the George R. Brown Convention Center.  Preview night, Wednesday, November 3.

Founded in 1974, the fall edition of International Quilt Festival is the largest annual quilt show, sale, and quiltmaking academy in the world. Dubbed "The World's Fair of Quilts," by Southern Living Magazine, the show attracts more than 53,000 people from around the globe to Houston, Texas each year.

This year, the show, sale, and quiltmaking academy will feature more than 1,500 quilt, dolls, and textile artworks on display; over 350 classes, lectures, and special events; and shopping in more than 1,100 booths selling quilts, fabrics, books, patterns, notions, crafts, machines, and sewing supplies.

Within the event is Make It University!™, a special area of the show floor devoted to mixed-media, textile arts, paper, and fiber crafts. Developed in collaboration with Cloth Paper Scissors® magazine, Make It University!™ includes workshops, teaching showcases, special exhibits, vendors, and Open Studios, where artists demonstrate right on the show floor.

Click here for a detailed schedule of events.

Click here for a listing of special exhibits.

Quilt Pictured Above: 
Encounters (54” x 74”) by Becky Grover. From the special exhibit “Jewel Pearce Patterson Scholarship for Quilting Teachers Award Winner: Wendy Butler Berns.” Presented by International Quilt Market; Curated by Wendy Butler Berns.

Quilts Pictured Below:
Basket of Tulips (52” x 52”) by Andi Perejda. From the special exhibit “In the American Tradition 2010.”  Partial sponsorship provided by Coats & Clark .

Colour Vortex (29” x 29”) by Ruth Keys.  From the special exhibit “Text on Textiles: Words as Design in Quilts.”

Happiness is in the Journey (68” x 68”) by Elly Sienkiewicz and others. From the special exhibit “Baltimore Album Review II: Baltimore‘s Daughters—Friends Stitch Past to Future.”  Sponsored by C & T Publishing.
 
Joshua (36” x 48”) by Sarah Ann Smith. From the special exhibit “Beneath the Surface.”  Sponsored by Misty Fuse.

Marilyn (76” x 62”) by Andrea Stern.  From the special exhibit “Tactile Architecture™ 2010.”

My Big Wide World (62” x 55”) by Ruth de Vos. From the special exhibit “Festival Gallery of Quilt Art: Wonders of the World.”

Orphan Blossoms (63” x 63”) by Timna Tarr. From the special exhibit “In the American Tradition 2010.”  Partial sponsorship provided by Coats & Clark.

South Bay (29” x 29.75”) by Linda Gass.  From the special exhibit “Quilts from the Book 500 Art Quilts”. Presented by International Quilt Festival.

Sun Dancer (70” x 61”) by Marjorie Post.  From the special exhibit “In Full Bloom 2010: Floral Quilts in Memory of Helen Pearce O‘Bryant.”

The Girls of Tyrone Farm (65” x 45”) by Beth Miller.  From the special exhibit "Hands All Around 2010."  Sponsored by Quilters Newsletter.
 
Vases, Birds and Other Things (91” x 91”) by an Kim McLean. From the special exhibit “Baltimore Album Review II: Baltimore’s Daughters—Friends Stitch Past to Future.”  Sponsored by C & T Publishing.