One of the most frequently asked questions at the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska is, "What is your most valuable quilt?" Well, they have an answer for you! Do you know what it is? Do you know how they figure out what makes it the most valuable? Watch this video and discover the answer.

The Sew & So​... podcast with host Meg Goodman recently featured superb sewing sisters Sue Nickels and Pat Holly as its guests. Come and listen to a fabulous conversation where Meg talks with Sue and Pat about their contributions to the quilting community, and so much more.

Lisa Walton, textile artist and past President of SAQA, spoke with Jane Sassaman about her quilt, Johnny Jump Ups, and discussed the color, quirkiness, and vibrancy in both this and many of her other quilts in a colorific installment of Quilt Stories.

Every year before the Houston International Quilts Festival, Quilts, Inc. holds the Fall Quilt Market, "the only credentialed trade show in the world dedicated to quilting and sewing exclusively." Well, now that won't be the only time you'll be able get the inside track on all things quilting, as the Spring Quilt Market will officially be returning next year from April 10-12, 2026 at America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri! Click through to find out more about this exciting return.

From the Texas Quilt Museum: "Saddle up and get ready to head to the Texas Quilt Museum for the debut of three brand new exhibits this Spring and Summer! Visitors will enjoy Blue Ribbon Prizewinners from the 2025 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Framed Center/Medallion Quilts, and Rebound-Renew-Reimagine. They will run from May 1, 2025 through August 23, 2025." Click through to find out more about the new exhibits, and watch a video to see how the museum switches out the previous exhibits and installs the new ones.

Join TQS's Susan Cleveland and co-hostess, Kimberly Einmo, in Japan this November! They've planned hands-on textile workshops and visits to Yoko Saito's quilt shop, the Yokohama quilt show, markets, a museum, shrine, garden and other surprises. Opulent Quilt Journeys takes great care to arrange top-notch experiences abroad. You really don't want to miss this opulent tour!

The Quilt Show ran into Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry at her exhibit, Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry: A Life In Color, at the National Quilt Museum this weekend as part of the festivities for the 2025 edition of the Paducah Quilt Show. While there, she showed us two of her firsts, her very first quilt, and her first art quilt. See both of these quilts as they were hung in the exhibit and chart the journey she took from her beginnings to now.

The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles has a new exhibit on display entitled Just Quilts!, "featuring three innovative, diverse, talented quilters from the Valley of Heart's Delight (Santa Clara Valley). These quilters being Charlotte Scholberg, Randa Mulford, and the late Joy Palmer."​ Come check out these great quilts at one of the Bay Area's preeminent quilting destinations. But come soon if you want to see it, as it'll only be there for a month.

This past year Janet Stone finished the last quilt in a her Alphabet series, which has twenty-six quilts with each one corresponding to a letter of the alphabet, that she began in 2008. And guess what? Starting next year you'll be able to see all of them together for the first time at the National Quilt Museum as part of their new exhibit, Janet Stone: And Now I Know My ABCs. Click through to learn more about this exciting exhibit to come.

Are you a fan of Star Wars? If you are, or even if aren't, we're sure you'll love what Star Wars fan Becky Glasby​ made that hung in the National Quilt Museum in 2024 as part of her solo exhibition, My Quilting Medley: Becky Glasby. Hear the story behind her Star Wars Trilogy quilts as part of the Go Tell It at the Quilt Show series from the Quilt Alliance.

Lisa Walton, textile artist and past President of SAQA, talks to Deborah Boschert, the then President of SAQA when this was filmed, about her fabric collage landscapes and learns about her quilt Tree Lines on another exciting installment of Quilt Stories.

Producing each edition of International Quilt Festival & International Quilt Market requires not only a dedicated full-time staff, but scores and scores of both paid and volunteer workers. Overseeing and scheduling these workers is the task of the Piece Corps, Show Assistant, and Volunteer Coordinator. Quilts, Inc. announces that Garri Kaye has been named to the position. She brings with her nearly a decade of experience in multiple roles for the shows, and is replacing the retiring Terri Winsauer. “I am so excited to have Garri Kaye take over,” Winsauer notes. “She is the perfect person for this position—and she’s a quilter herself!” 

The Alden Lane Nursery in Livermore, California, just down the street from The Quilt Show's own Alex Anderson, is famous for every year putting on their Quilting in the Garden show where they hang quilts from the large trees that hang over the nursery. Not to be outdone, the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville, North Carolina actually "quilts" their garden, as they plant their plants to look like quilt blocks. Get a glimpse at how they do this in this video from 2022 showing how they're going to design the Quilt Garden for that season.

This past Friday Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, friend and past guest of The Quilt Show, had a celebratory retrospective exhibition of quilts debut at the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky entitled Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry: A Life In Color. This career-spanning display of her work features some of her most famous quilts and is an amazing opportunity to see such a large body of her work together in one place. Click through to find out more about the exhibit.

While we may be a month removed from Valentine's Day, this video from CBS Sunday Morning provides a fascinating look and appreciation of lace, that holiday's premiere textile for cards, garments, and other romantically-tinged ephemera. Join CBS correspondent Lee Cowan as he dives into the history of lace and the love it sees throughout the textile community.

Karen Lantz, formerly Karen Gloeggler, was a guest of The Quilt Show back in Series 1400 where she told us all about how she created a series of quilts, and a quilt book, inspired by Jane Austen’s romantic novels, along with sharing how to find, and then incorporate vintage fabrics, handkerchiefs, and doilies into your quilts to give them a Jane Austen flair. Now, Karen has a brand new book titled The UFO Cure: Managing UnFinished Objects to Restore Your Joy in Quilting, which will help you complete and take care of all those UnFinished Objects (UFOs) you have lying around.

From the National Quilt Museum: "For more than 50 years, Mr. Mallard has chronicled world events through his vibrant and intricately detailed thread collages. Born of brilliantly colored embroidery floss, fabric, patience and time, his quilts have been showcased in the United States and Europe.  He has been profiled in Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, Linda LaPinta’s book Kentucky Quilts and Quiltmakers, Three Centuries of Creativity, Community, and Commerce,  inducted in the Mc Comb Mississippi Wall of Fame, and was honored with the ArtsReach “Living the Vision” Award.  Joe’s feature quilts include his Obama Tie Quilt, which chronicles the first four years of the Obama administration and an embroidered denim jacket he presented to former President Jimmy Carter, which highlights key events of his political life."

Beth and Jonathan Evans, internationally known batik artists, discuss their craft and recently published book, A Book of Batik, at a virtual event on Zoom, this Sunday, February 16, 2025. Registration is required, and there will be a question and answer session after the interview which you are welcome to participate in.

Christa Watson has twice been a guest of The Quilt Show, and in her first appearance with us she began sewing together improv scraps of color during one of the segments. After many years the fruits of her labor have paid off as the quilt that was created from those scraps, Colorful Chaos, has been juried into the Modern category at the AQS Paducah quilt show. Click through to see the quilt.

From the American Folk Art Museum: "Featuring 42 textile works and oil paintings, Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets is the first comprehensive survey of Santos Reinbolt’s art ever presented and marks the first-ever solo museum exhibition for the artist organized outside her native Brazil. Best known for her large-scale embroideries made from hundreds of vibrant colored threads, which the artist referred to as quadros de lã (“wool paintings”), the exhibition represents more than half of all known works by the artist and examines the artist’s work through a variety of lenses, including gender, race, and socio-economic dynamics."