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!).