Elinor Hyde of Salt Lake City, Utah has helped connect
two wonderful quilters to the Nauvoo Quilt Festival this year:
Come and “Discover Your Inner Fabric” at the 1st Annual Nauvoo Quilt Festival in Nauvoo, Illinois!
Margaret Jenkins and Juanita Jones of Kooska, Idaho have entered and donated a very special quilt they have created. We have will be displaying the story along with the quilt at the Festival!
Take a look at the picture of this beautiful quilt depicting the Sarah Granger Kimball in Nauvoo, IL.
! New deadline is end of this week!
Registration has been extended
Many great quilts will be competing for "Peoples Choice" awards throughout the festival.
Special anouncement! - All entry fees for the first annual Nauvoo Quilt Festival have now been waived to allow more people the opportunity to enter their quilts this year!
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO LEARN ABOUT THE QUILT FESTIVAL !!
Kay McKenna of QuiltaTemple.com has designed a quilt block pattern expressly for this year's Nauvoo Quilt Festival. These collector patterns will be given out as Door Prizes at the Festival.
Come see this wonderful block!
The Nauvoo Festival will be held in Nauvoo, IL on July 11th and 12th, 2008 at the Nauvoo Elementary School. We are planning to include exhibitors from all over the United States and Canada. Also included are manufacturer's, retailers, designers and teachers offering Hands-on Make-it & Take-it Projects, interesting lectures, quilt displays & on-going demonstrations. Come and taek advantage of the show-ONLY specials during the festival. Two days of FUN-PACKED ENTERTAINMENT. Daily PRIZES!
Esteemed Quilt designer, lecturer, and instructor Annie Smith will be presenting and teaching at the upcoming Nauvoo Quilt Festival in July. She and
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many quilt awards to her credit. She has been a quilting class instructor for over 15 years. She is now producing her own line of quilt patterns featuring machine appliqué techniques. Annie is a quilt show judge and show producer.
Annie travels all around the United States delivering lectures and workshops to guilds and shops and private groups. She is best known for “Help, My Fabric Stash Is Growing and I Can’t Make It Stop!” a humorous look at various, real fabric stashes, and how Annie has learned to conquer her own out-of-control stash and turn it into a welcome feature of her studio (Her lecture schedule will be published on the "schedule page" of this site).
Annie says, “Quilting has plenty of people writing books and talking technique and how-to, I want to share the things that excite me about the craft, the things that inspire me every day and make me want to do nothing else but quilt every day."
Classes presented by Annie during the Festival:
Friday July 11 - Keeping Your Legacy Alive
Each of our quilts has our personal story hidden inside. Annie will inspire participants to see and unlock the personal story inside their quilt, how to document the information and preserve swatches and pictures to create an heirloom for future generations, a companion to their quilts.
Friday July 12 - Help! My Fabric Stash is Growing and I Can’t Make It Stop!
Take a humorous look at the quilter’s nature to multiply. See some famous and not-so-famous quilter’s stashes. This is for the quilter who loves fabric and needs to find creative ways to manage and get control over their stash. Isn’t that just about every quilter you know?
“Annie’s lecture and workshop combines the best of both worlds. Her lecture
provided the inspiration and her workshop gave me the education I need to
become a better quilter.” - Shannon Colin, lecture and workshop student
From the time you enter kindergarten until you graduate from college, you are trained to think with only one half of your brain. But that analytical side needs to be balanced by your creativity in order to create art. This class will help you open up and use both sides of your brain, so that your quilt projects don't end up at the back of your closet unfinished, but instead end up on your bed or your wall.
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It's also a buyer's market, open to the general public. It’s a perfect opportunity to learn NEW skills or simply sharpen current ones. You’ll find products on the cutting edge, as well as, traditional and hard to find quilt supplies, gadgets, collectibles, and gifts for all your giving needs.
Here is a great example of the vendors participating at the festival:
Alto's QuiltCut2 makes it possible to cut many layers of fabric for multiple strips, squares, rectangles, triangles, diamonds, hexagons, pentagons and more... with amazing speed and precision! Comes complete with Cutting Mat, Pivoting Cutting Guide, thorough instructions and instructional video. Suitable for right or left handers.
Come visit us at the festival!
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This year's Festival also features demonstrations and lectures
presented by the festival teaching staff and vendors. Click on the menu buttons above to see more information!
Admission to Festival -
$3.00 per person
Senior-citizen discount - 50% off
Kids up to 12yrs - FREE
Bus Loads Welcome
Jump to the Registration link above to get started!!
Come participate in special lectures and demonstrations throughout the two-day event!