Lilo Bowman interviews textile artist Judith Ahlborn about her quilt, Sightseeing in New Orleans, at the Houston International Quilt Festival 2024. Judith talks about her process in the creation of the quilt.
Lisa Ellis talks about her selection for a Judge's Choice Award at the Houston International Quilt Festival 2024. Lisa selected the quilt Millstones by Tetiana Bohachuk, and if you are out and about in the Houston area this weekend you can see this beautiful quilt in all its glory at the 50th Anniversary Edition of the Houston Quilt Show.
The 50th Anniversary of the Houston International Quilt Festival actually begins tomorrow, October 31, 2024, but some will get to experience all the grandeur tonight as preview night takes place. What will you see when you enter the doors of the convention center? It truly is a sight to behold, and when the TQS crew visited the show early last week they got a glimpse of what would greet every quilter as they walked though those doors. What did they see? Take a look for yourself, and get some other sneak peeks of the convention floor.
Lisa Ellis has an exhibit at the 2024 Houston Quilt Show entitled Cathedral Windows Contemporary Explorations, sponsored by Cherrywood Fabrics, that features her quilts that share her "long love affair of the textures and complexity of the overlapping circles of the Cathedral Window design." We caught up with Lisa on the floor of the show and she personally gave us the inside scoop on the exhibit.
Guess what? Today is Kaffe Fassett's actual birthday! In honor of the man of the hour, we dug up this great interview that Alex had with Kaffe at his exhibit for his book, Shots and Stripes, with Liza Prior Lucy, who also joins the interview, at the 2013 Houston International Quilt Festival. Take a look and see all the wonderful quilts, it'll be like a birthday present for yourself!
Announcing the Viewers' Choice Award from Houston! It's Welcome Home (93" x 65") by David Taylor! David's quilt was inspired by a photo of one of Margo Clabo's quilts. David says, "It took years to convince my friend Margo Clabo to grant me permission to adapt her heartwarming photo into a quilt. I knew from the beginning it would be a huge undertaking as I could only imagine it at this size."
Want to know what it takes to win a BIG quilting award? Well, TQS guest, friend, and 2014 BOM designer Janet Stone knows, and here she discusses her quilting background and quilt ABCDvine, which won The Grace Company Master Award for Traditional Artistry at the Houston International Quilt Festival this year.
The deadlines have been extended for quilt submissions for some of the exhibits debuting at this year's Quilt Festival in Houston! Check out what submissions have been extended.
"The International Quilt Festival has taken up where the International Quilt Association left off and is excited to announce our debut Judged Show, premiering at our IN-PERSON 2021 event, October 28-31, 2021 at our usual home of the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, USA!"
Kim Siviour combined her love for gardens and birds into this extraordinary quilt, Birden, which was featured at the Houston International Quilt Festival in 2018.
Flora Australis by Denise Griffiths was featured in the In Full Bloom exhibit at the Houston Quilt Festival in 2018.
We continue our selection of quilts exhibited in 2019 at the Houston International Quilt Festival as part of their 45th Anniversary, the Sapphire Anniversary with Annick Bouvier-Selwyn's quilt, STOP! Ouvrons Les Yeux! (Stop! Let's open our eyes!).