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Quilting Events
Local & Regional Quilt Shows & Museum Exhibits
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July 16-18,
2010
Midwest Fiber &
Folk Art Fair. Lake County
Fairgrounds, Grayslake, IL.
www.fiberandfolk.com
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July 16-18,
2010
Batavia Quilt &
Textile Show. Shannon Hall and
the Eastside Community Center. 14 N.
Van Buren Street, Batavia. Friday 1-6,
Sat & Sun 10-5. $6 Admission.
www.bataviaquiltshow.com |
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August 3-7,
2010
Milwaukee Machine Quilting Show.
Wyndham Milwaukee Airport Hotel & Convention
Center, Milwaukee, WIS.
www.MMQShow.com |
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August 14-15,
2010
Piecemaker's Quilt Show. Carl
Sandburg College, 2400 Tom L. Wilson Blvd.,
Galesburg, IL. Sat 10-5, Sun 11-4.
Admission $5. More Info call Mary
Walck 309-342-6865 |
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May 22 - September 6, 2010
American Quilts: Selections from the
Winterthur Collection. One of the
world’s finest collections of early American
quilts will be on view at the Milwaukee Art
Museum.
More than 40 quilts document women’s
political, social, and cultural lives in the
formative period of the early American
republic (1760–1850).
http://www.mam.org/exhibitions/details/quilts_winterthur.php |
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September 4-5, 2010
Bolines Open House. Open to Public.
416 Olympia Drive, Unit #3, Bloomington, IL.
Hours 9-5. Quilt Fabric at warehouse
prices.
www.bolines.com or 1-888-14-3819. |
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September
9-11, 2010
Quilt Expo.
Alliant Energy Center, 1919 Alliant Energy
Center Way, Madison, WI. Open 9-6
daily. Admission $8
www.wiquiltexpo.com |
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September
11-12, 2010
Pieces n' Patches Quilt Show.
Columbia Central School, 94 W Richton Road,
Steger, IL. Sat 9-5, Sun 9-4.
Admission $5 More Info
PNP2010QuiltShow@hotmail.com |
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September 25 &
26, 2010
Heritage
Quilters Guild (Lockport).
Liberty Junior High, New Lenox, IL.
For more info and map, go to website.
http://www.heritagequiltersguild.com/quilt_show |
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October 2 &
3, 2010
DeKalk County
Quilters Guild. Sycamore Middle
School, 150 Maplewood Drive, Corner of Hwy
23 and Maplewood, Sycamore, IL.
Admission $5. Hours: Saturday 10
to 5, Sunday 11 to 5. For more info and map, go to
website.
www.dcqg.org |
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October 15 &
16, 2010
Prairie Star
Quilters Guild.
DUPAGE
COUNTY FAIR GROUND,
2015 West Manchester Road,
Wheaton ,
IL
Hours: Friday 9:30 to 8, Saturday 10
to 5. For more info and map, go to
website.
http://www.prairiestar.net/quiltshow.html |
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November 6 &
7, 2010
Fine Art of
Fiber.
Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook
Road, Glencoe, IL. Free Admission to
exhibits.
Hours: Saturday 10 to 5, Sunday 10
to 4. For more info and map, go to
website. Guilds include Illinois
Quilters Guild, No. Suburban Needle Arts
Guild, Weavers Guild of North Shore.
http://www.fineartoffiber.org |
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Local Quilt Shows Coming in 2011
Faithful Circle Quilt Guild - Downers
Grove
Village Quilters Quilt Guild - Wheaton
Pieces From the Heart Quilt Guild -
Morris
Gems of the Prairie - Peoria
Sinnissippi Quilters - Rockford
Northern Lake County Quilters Guild - Round
Lake Northwest Suburban Quilters Guild -
Arlington Heights Village Quilters of Lake
Bluff and Lake Forest |
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Miscellaneous & Quilt Contests
Click on these links to see various quilt contests
for upcoming national shows.
www.americanquilter.com/shows_contests
www.quilts.com/home/contests/index.php
www.quiltfest.com
www.worldquilt.com
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