Check with your hotel to see if you can catch the shuttle bus from there! Parking is always a problem, but if you get there early, you can park at the Expo center or in the lot near the museum. The Expo Center and the museum and the downtown area are within walking distance (with good shoes!) but there are vendors and other quilt displays in several locations farther away. Info is available at the Expo center where the AQS show is displayed.

Get there early if you want to park at the Expo center. It fills up quickly and there is a charge. Be prepared for large numbers of people. Wear your walking shoes. There's lots to see besides the quilt show--tons of vendors, the museum, downtown (the stores have quilts in the windows), the Civic Center antique quilt show. ETc.

I will be competing at Paducah this year for the first time, but I don't have the quilt on my profile because I am too technologically challenged to do it! I entered a Mariner's Compass that I started in 1994, and had
in a box as a UFO until I decided to quilt it last year.

I really liked seeing everyone else's quilts and will be looking for them
when I am at the show! I have never been to Paducah before...can
anyone tell me a bit about how the show runs? Is parking easy?
Is everything housed in the Expo Center? What should I know before I
go?

Thanks and good luck to all of the Quilt Show entrants!!

yes, all of us "locals" are really keeping our fingers crossed...

I went to the Paducah show for 20 years in a row, just missed the last two years because it's too far to drive in a day now that we're in TX. My friends and I stayed at the Executive Inn most years, not because of the luxurious accommodations, LOL, but because it was connected to the convention center and we could run upstairs for a rest when we had shopped until we dropped. It got shabbier every year. I do hope they keep the show there, though, it's a lovely little town to visit.

Pat in Rockport, TX

Lori, thanks for sharing that.

http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=0d801116-d96a-4775-9d29-fcd54d43cf53

some of you may find this interesting...

Wow, you all are making me envious. I'd love to be there with you. I did get to Nashville several years ago and it was glorious. Just didn't have enough time, but then, do we ever?!!

You all have a great time. Buy lots of fabric and eat lots of good food, perhaps lobster and steak every night!!

Sharon in TN (quiltnlady)

Be sure to go see Joy. I visited her in Houston and went away with a lovely fat quarter of her yummy dyed fabric. Betty Ann

I don't get to go to Paducah this year
"I want to wish everyone ribbons on the quilts they have entered for this year,let us know how it all goes".
Everyone that gets to go this year "enjoy yourselves" and let us all know how much fun you have.
Have Fun!
Hugzzz,Kathy

Joy, I remember when you posted this before another show.....I am so glad I'll get to meet you this week. See you soon.

Dana from Olive Branch, MS already in Paducah for the show....I sure touched a lot of fabric today, but I only bought 2 yards of one wonderful batik.

We are leaving for Paducah on Sunday morning. Our booth is located in the Pool Annex (5216/5218) come by and see us for a free fat quarter of my hand dyed fabric.

Joy

You have hit the "big time!"

BethMI

I'll be there, too!