Quilt Shows

Here are a few quilt shows that are coming up that may be of interest to the quilters.

American Quilter's Society Quilt Expo in Nashville, TN. Held Aug. 20-23. Deadline for entries is May 5. http://www.americanquilter.com

American Quilter's Society Quilt Expo in Des Moine, IA. Held October 8-11. Deadline for entries is June 23.

Innovations, Tacoma WA. Also held October 8-11. Deadline for entries is not yet posted. http://www.mqinnovations.com

International Machine Quilter's Association, Overland Park, KS. May 14-17. Deadline for entries is March 26. This is a show that I hope to attend. Check out the website at http://www.imqa.org.

Also look at this website for the 4 quilt shows that National Quilt Festival puts on. http://www.quiltfest.com.

The New Jersey show is Feb. 28-Mar. 2 and deadline is Jan. 25th
The Denver show is May 1-4 with the deadline of Mar. 19
The Pennsylvannia show is Sept. 4-7 but the deadline has not be posted.
The Mid-Atlantic show is in Hampton VA Feb. 21-24 and deadline is Jan 11th.

National Quilting Association http://www.nqaquilts.org is June 19-21 in Columbus, OH with a deadline of May 1.

Quilt Odyssey in Hershey, PA is July 24-27 with a deadline of April 30th. http://www.quiltodyssey.com

These are local shows:
Ozark Piecemakers Quilt Guild http://www.ozarkpiecemakers.com September 18-20, Springfield, MO to be held Sept. 18-20. No details on the website yet as to entry dates.

Ozark Empire Fair, Springfield, MO is set for July 25-Aug. 3rd. No details for the '08 fair on the website yet.

Missour State Fair, Sedalia, MO http://www.mostatefair.com is scheduled for Aug. 7-17. There are no details for entries on the website as of this date.

Jefferson City Jaycees Cole County Fair is July 30-Aug. 4th. here in Jeff City. Again there are no details on-line as of this date.

There are still several national quilt shows that I know of, but their websites don't have their '08 dates or any information posted yet.

You can see that there is a lot of opportunity to show your talents as a quilter this year.

Susan

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