Quilt Week Is Here! Friends of Museum Welcomed

Friends of the National Quilt Museum head to Paducah for AQS QuiltWeek days before the official show and contest begin. This is the 30th Annual QuiltWeek in Quilt City USA. 

Monday evening they were welcomed during a "Friends of the Museum" reception at the and treated to view the galleries of superb exhibits prior to their busy schedules this week. Currently showing:
•Distortion
•New Quilts from an Old Favorite
•The Gilded Lily
•Oh WOW! Miniature Quilts
•Museum Collection

Guests at the National Quilt Museum's annual "Friends of the Museum" Reception on Monday evening marveled at the artistry of the quilts in the New Quilts From an Old Favorite: Carolina Lily contest exhibit. This international contest, hosted by the National Quilt Museum, challenges quiltmakers to marry traditional patterns with innovative, contemporary designs and practices. The contest quilts accepted for the exhibit are displayed along side antique quilts of the same pattern. After being displayed at the National Quilt Museum, the exhibit travels to other AQS Quilt Shows as well as museums and galleries across the United States.

Find out what's going on at the National Quilt Museum, during QuiltWeek and year round http://www.quiltmuseum.org.

Tonight the winners of the 30th Annual American Quilter's Society Quilt Show and Contest will be announced at the Carson Center and QuiltWeek will be off and running . . .

Thanks to Rosemarie Steele for the lovely photos.