Vermont Quilt Festival


	Make Your Plans to Visit VQF 2008 Now! Plans for VQF 2008 are in full swing and we’re working hard to improve on last year’s success. We’ve read all your evaluations and taken your suggestions to heart as we try to make this year’s Festival the best one yet! At VQF 2008 you can look forward to more of the things you’ve told us you enjoy the most and some new events to add a dash of spice. Once again, we have an extensive assortment of quilt exhibits: antique quilts from the depression era; small, whimsical quilts based on folk and fairy tales; a retrospective of the work of Canadian quilter, Ann Bird; a sampling of the work of art quilter, Barbara Olson; quilts by quilt historian and Quilter’s Hall of Fame inductee, Florence Peto; samples of the work of the Quiet Valley Quilt Guild of Bennington, VT, and exhibits featuring the work of nationally prominent teachers on the ’08 and ’09 faculty. Something for every taste! Our 2008 Quilt Contest will, once again, feature hundreds of quilts made by the young, the young-at-heart, and everyone in between. Come experience quilts in all styles, techniques, colors, themes, and sizes. Our “quilt camp” at St. Michael’s College will offer 83 classes-full and half days- taught by 25 teachers from across the country and even New Zealand! A number of classes will also be held at CVE, including three in which machines will be provided. If you’d like to just relax and learn, there will be a series of 90-minute morning lectures Friday-Sunday. Last year, many were disappointed when tickets to our Saturday evening program at St. Michael’s College sold out before the Festival. As a result, this year’s Saturday evening lecture and “Show and Tell” will be held in the Blue Ribbon Pavilion at CVE-- with more than twice the seating capacity. For those staying in the dorms, we have arranged for special extended shuttle service to take attendees from St. Michael’s to CVE for the program and back.		Our Merchants’ Mall is always popular and many of you have requested more products and vendors. This year, the malls in both exhibit halls have been slightly reconfigured to accommodate 82 vendors, including 14 new ones. Our vendors come from all over the United States and this year we have added one from Canada. Shoppers will be tempted by a wide variety of fabrics, tools, notions, patterns, accessories, display items, and more. VQF 2008--June 27-29--Classes start June 26 Go to the “Classes and Registration Page” to download the 2008 Show Brochure and Class Catalog. The book is also available by mail. Send $3.00 to: VQF Brochure, Box 797, St. Johnsbury, VT 05819. Speaking of shopping, VQF 2008 will be hosting its first-ever Booth Hop sponsored by Andover Fabrics. In this fun event, 12 vendors will offer a unique quilt block of their own design. The blocks, made with Andover’s Old English Rose fabric line by Gail Kessler, will be available in kit form for $6.00 plus tax. Each vendor will feature a quilt with all the blocks in a special setting to give you ideas and inspiration. The border and binding materials they use will also be available for purchase. Pick up your free hop passport in the lobby and have it stamped at each participating booth as you collect all 12 blocks. When you’re finished, you’ll have all you need to make a spectacular sampler quilt. No muss, no fuss, no waste. Shoppers who turn in completed passports will be entered into a drawing for 300 fat quarters! There are a lot more great things happening at the 2008 Vermont Quilt Festival. Get your class catalog/show brochure now by going to the classes and registration page and downloading it or having it mailed to you. (See instructions under picture above)