EVENT OVERVIEW 

This is Spring 2008 information left posted for information as to general format of this event--it will be edited in Fall 2008 for the 2009 event.

We return again to Lancaster for our twenty-first year—to celebrate twenty-one years of quilts and quilters! It’s hard to believe we are entering the third decade of this event.  We’ll have the things that have become tradition and several things new. Our theme exhibit for 2008 will be “Twist on Tradition,” a look at how quilters have literally given traditional patterns a twist from their own point of view.  See the appropriate web site page or e-mail us for further information in case you think you might have a quilt to share for this year’s theme exhibit.

As you’ve come to expect, throughout the exhibit halls will be quilts, both old and new, competitions, special exhibits, the Merchant Mall, and other unique items related to this wonderful world of quilting. It’s a pleasure to offer hands-on and lecture/demo classes in all sorts of techniques, including longarm quilting, that quilters have embraced as we have learned and grown over the last twenty-one years.  

We’ll have entertainment at the QHC teaparty on Thursday with Kimberly Einmo’s innovative design ideas and Linda Cantrell’s delightful humor at our Friday evening dinner.  Artist P. Buckley Moss will share her art and its inspiration at our luncheon on Saturday and will have a presence in the merchant mall as well.  For our final get-together Saturday evening, we’ll have our Show and Tell plus an Ugly Fabric Auction with guest hostess, Libby Kube Hage, to benefit the “Yes Mam!” ® Mammogram Project. 

The 2007 edition of the world’s premier art quilt competition, Quilt National, will be present, featuring Sections A and B of the traveling units of this exhibit which is sponsored by the Dairy Barn Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center, Athens, Ohio.  With a guide for a gallery tour on Sunday morning before the exhibit hall opens, you will have the opportunity for an in-depth look at this avant-garde example of artistic textile expression.  QHC is one of only three quilt shows in the nation to be able to share this exhibit.

And once again, we will have a delightful fashion show put together for our pleasure by Diane Herbort from Arlington, VA.  Wear your wearable art and be part of the show!

Your tour through the exhibits can include finding several new ones including Fabrications Faces Quilts and Twisted By Traditions, from Wendy’s Madams—more about that group later. Check the web site for updates in December and January on what else will be new. Continuing exhibits which will feature new quilts include: Northern Star Quilters Guild Challenge, Signature Art Quilters, Stretching Art and Tradition Challenge, Teachers’ Showcase from those teaching/lecturing at QHC, and, of course, the Quilters’ Heritage Celebration Juried and Judged Show. Updates will be posted on the web.

Be sure to peruse the class offerings of the folks that we are delighted to have on the faculty for the first time at QHC, including Bobbie Bergquist, Ellen Anne Eddy, Morna McEver Golletz, Judi Gunter, and Sherry Rogers-Harrison. Also new in the line-up is a class on making bobbin lace taught by Carol Lee Shirk.  Returning by request this year are Linda Cantrell, Kimberly Einmo, Cynthia England, Libby Kube Hage, and Kay Hickman, who emphasize color, texture, machine techniques and design with an artistic perspective.  Bob Purcell will repeat his wonderfully informative presentation about threads in the Quilt-Lite lectures (time to relax and learn mid-afternoon), and quilt appraisals will be done on site by AQS certified appraiser Phyllis Twigg Hatcher. Also, Phyllis will present a new workshop this year, adding a historical research component to our ever-expanding topics of interest.

In the “back-by-popular demand” category are the early bird classes and a tour being held Wednesday, before the show opens on Thursday.  Several teachers and their most popular classes are back in the class list including:  Carol Blevins with her machine classes, Making Labels/Kim Churbuck, Diane Herbort with fabric postcards, John Flynn, Nancy Johnson-Srebro, That Perfect Stitch/Dierdra McElroy along with a new class, George Siciliano with another new class, Virginia Siciliano to keep our hand quilting top-notch, and Bernadine Yoder with her lovely embroidery techniques.

In keeping with the “good can always be better” philosophy, some changes have been made in the REGISTRATION PACKET INFORMATION, THE PROCESS and POLICIES for registering both individually and in groups… DO TAKE TIME TO READ THE REGISTRATION INFORMATION MATERIAL CAREFULLY before completing your form and mailing it, faxing it or submitting it by e-mail from the web site.  Please read thoroughly and check material carefully for changes from past procedures.

BE SURE TO REVIEW THE SEWING MACHINE POLICY, THE APPRAISAL PROCESS, AND THE CANCELLATION INSURANCE POLICY.

*Confirmation and copy deadlines made it impossible to list all the exhibits by name at this time, but as they get confirmed, they will be fully explained on the web site and in the on-site program and with signage.

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