As VQF sails into its 36th year, the hard-working Board and staff are doing our very best to bring you, our registrants and visitors, another exciting show, filled with the colors and patterns of our shared quilting lives. Five long-time friends of the Festival - Gerald Roy, Mickey Lawler, Anne Gallo, Susan Raban and Aileen Chutter - will provide the antique and special exhibits, a veritable smorgasbord of new and antique, traditional and contemporary, some 160-plus quilts altogether. Added to this exciting cross-section are the new quilts in our judged show, a sampling of the best work by quilters from across the United States, Canada, and other countries, as well as quilts by our instructors, and the second annual SewBatik Challenge.

Our faculty of 21 will cover most, if not all of, the bases in three and one-half days of instruction at St. Michael's College and the Champlain Valley Exposition. Classes to the number of 82 will offer a wide assortment of techniques from the most traditional to the most non-traditional, including, for the first time, mid-long arm machine classes. Many classrooms will be supplied with sewing machines generously supplied by dealers representing Bernina, Handi Quilter, Janome, Pfaff and Viking.

Evening lectures by Kimberly Einmo and Pat Sloan, antique and new quilt appraisals by the best appraisers in the business, lecture-demonstrations by our vendors, and a new antique show and tell program will also serve to inform or amuse you (or both!). Finally, there's the fabulous merchants' mall, with 80 different vendors from across the United States, showing every manner of quilting product imaginable to tempt the shopper in you. 

We're looking forward to greeting you in Essex Junction the last week in June!


 

 

The Festival is honored and excited to be named one of the Top 100 Events in North America by the American Bus Association. "The Vermont  Quilt Festival offers excellent entertainment value to  both tour groups and to individual travelers from around the  world," stated the ABA. VQF joins other notable Top 100 events including the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington DC, the Kentucky Derby, Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, and Vermont's Quechee Balloon Festival.