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The Pacific International Quilt Festival opens this week at the Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA.

October 17-20, 2013 Thurs, Fri, Sat: 10am-6pm, Sunday: 10am-5pm

Admission: $15 (includes re-admit), $13 Sunday only; Children under 16 are Free 

Credit Cards are NOT accepted for admission.

VIEW the International and selected U.S entries of the World Quilt Competition XVII 

- Featuring quilts from Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States!

SHOP the Merchants Mall

  - Over 300 Vendor Booths from 29 States!

 Click here for a list of Participating Vendors.

ENJOY the Center's Festive Food Court!

VIEW 22 Special Exhibitions

 Click Here for a list of PIQF's Special Exhibitions

VOTE For your Favorite Competition Entries 

- Viewer's Choice will be awarded to the Quilt Competition entry & Wearable Art entry with the most votes!

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Have you ever wanted a longarm machine?  Now is the time! Gammill is offering 0% financing.  Not sure what you can do with your Gammill? Head on over to one of these shows and visit a booth for a hands-on demo.

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Do you know about FabMo?  It is an all-volunteer, donor supported organization that diverts beautiful designer materials (more than 50 tons in 2012) from their otherwise destination, the landfill, and makes them available for creative reuse by anyone interested.

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Click here for a list of participating dealers

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The deadline is fast approaching if you want to participate in the National Quilt Museum contest, New Quilts from an Old Favorite. 

Each year this international contest challenges quiltmakers to create an innovative quilt based on a specific traditional pattern. The 2014 theme is Carolina Lily. Winners of the contest traditionally include quilts from many different U.S. states and several other countries.

Quilts are selected for their excellence in design and techniques, their innovations, and their contributions to an exhibit showing the wide range of designs and styles the selected traditional pattern can inspire.

In cooperation with the American Quilter's Society, a catalog is published, featuring the award-winning and finalist quilts in full color, with a photo of the maker, information about the quilt's development and patterns and tips.

Past winners have included TQS members, let's see if we can do it again!  The entry deadline is November 1, 2013.

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Are you looking for a Quilt Guild in your area?  Did you know that the American Quilter's Society has a database of registered guilds? You can filter by state or province, click on the guild name, and get contact info, general guild info, and the location of the guild meetings. There are forty-six pages worth so far.  If you guild isn't mentioned, you can add it to their database.  No excuses... find a guild, join a guild, or add a guild.

Click here to get started.

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SAQA's Benefit Auction supports SAQA's exhibition program - during 2013 ten exhibitions of SAQA member work traveled to Australia, Canada, England, France, Gabon, Italy, South Africa, and seventeen states across the U.S.  They were displayed in 8 museums and 19 major quilt festivals and were seen by several hundred thousand visitors, many of whom had never seen an art quilt before.

Help support the art quilt movement by bidding on your favorite great piece of art in SAQA's Benefit Auction!

Click here to find out how the auction works.

Click here to see what is currently up for bid.

(Quilts by Sheila Frampton-Cooper, Elisabeth Nacenta-de la Croix, and Linda Evans)

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Ahoy! It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day and Jack Sparrow dropped by to ask you a question. If ye ain't sure how to answer in the right manner, visit the Original Talk Like a Pirate Day site and learn your pirate Ps & Qs! Or visit their Facebook page.

Do ye have the courage to follow Captain Jack?  

if ye visit any participatin' Long John Silver's eatery on Sept. 19 and place yer order in yer best pirate talk, they'll throw in a free piece o' their classic whitefish! 

https://www.facebook.com/LongJohnSilvers

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Caryl Bryer Fallert has a new exhibit which celebrates the 30th anniversary of the making of her first art quilt (Red Poppies) in 1983.

Caryl says, "The thirty quilts, all of which are new, revisit many of the themes of my past, award-winning work, and introduce new themes. Although there is diversity in style, the uniform size of the quilts (30" x 30") pulls the exhibit together visually. All of these quilts are made with fabric from the various collections I have designed for Benartex, which are based on my original hand-dyed and painted fabrics."

The exhibit will premiere at the International Quilt Festival in Houston TX in Oct./Nov. 2013, after which it will travel to other museums, galleries, and shows. 

Click here to see the quilts that have already been completed.

Here are some locations where the exhibit will be heading:

• International Quilt Market & Festival, 2013, Houston TX, October 25-November 3, 2013
• National Quilt Museum, Paducah KY, December 6, 2013 to March 11, 2014
• Bryerpatch Studio Gallery, Paducah KY March 15, 2014 – May 1, 2014
• Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA, August 1, 2014 – September 21, 2014
• LaConner Quilt Museum, LaConner WA – July 1-September 4, 2015
• Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, IL – September ? - December 31, 2015

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Look what we found at the Long Beach show.  It's the Bernina 880 and it should begin shipping in October.

Some key features include:

• Embroidery "Shaping"
• Colorize embroideries with the Color Wheel
• 1764 built-in stitches plus Create  your own with the Stitch Designer
• Creatively distort stitches
• Sew as fast as 1200 stitches per minute
• 7-inch color touch screen with scrollable navigation
• Bernina Dual Feed and Bernina Stitch Regulator functionality
• 12" throat
• Jumbo Bobbin with 80% more thread capacity

TQS Members are talking about it in the Forum, click here to chime in.