The 2013 Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta will be the 9th biennial show dedicated to fiber arts education and to the display of fiber-related artwork. The biennial Fiesta is the major fundraiser for the Albuquerque Fiber Arts Council, Inc. Hosted by the Albuquerque Fiber Arts Council, Inc. (AFAC), a tax-exempt, non-profit organization, the Fiesta includes both juried and judged works organized by 17 co-sponsoring New Mexico fiber arts guilds.

The Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta committee is meeting regularly and planning the 2013 Fiesta. All 2013 Fiesta information will be posted on this website as special events, special exhibits, classes and the featured artist are finalized. Rules of Entry and official Entry Forms are now available for the 2013 Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta. At the Exhibit Entry tab, you will find a listing of all 16 Fiesta Divisions.

**The 2011 Fiesta received 632 exhibit entry applications. To accomodate more exhibit entries and an expanded Vendor Mall, the Fiesta occupied both large exhibit halls at the Manual Lujan Complex, almost double the 2009 Fiesta footprint! The 2011 Fiesta hosted a vendor mall of 76 vendors, 3 fashion shows, guild and vendor demos, 11 classes and workshops, educational exhibits and a solo show by Featured Artist, Arley Berryhill. By all accounts, the 2011 Fiesta was a huge success and the show was enjoyed by all!

The 9th Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta will again occupy the two large halls of the Manuel Lujan Complex.

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Grand Re-Opening of a new state of the art facility. Featuring demos, test drives, trunk shows, raffles and more!

Learn something new – or share your talents! Join us for hands-on demonstrations of sewing and quilting by hand: piecing, applique, English paper piecing, quilting, and block layouts, all without your machine. You can also check out wall displays of the different steps in putting a quilt together and catch some video about some of the quilts from the Smithsonian National Quilt Collection.

Shopping Mall

Come shop the vendors' booths. We offer more than 70 vendors and five corporate sponsors, from all over the country, selected with our quilters in mind. Many of our faithful vendors have returned, and we offer new vendors with a variety of specialties, to meet the desires of any quilter. For a list of vendors, including either e-mail address or website, click <HERE>.

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Combining the Great American Scrapbook Convention with Martha’s Sewing Market for the first time ever, Stitch Craft Create Live is a crafter’s paradise. Shop for scrapbook and sewing supplies, explore your creativity and get inspired to try a new technique or pick up a new hobby!

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Artistic Crystals is an exciting new software and accessory package that allows you to create crystal and rhinestone designs to incorporate into your clothing, quilting, sewing and crafting projects! Join us to make something fun!

Inspire and impress your customers with the 8900 lecture/demo program. This 90 minute presentation provides information on the most exciting features of this amazing sewing and quilting machine. A Janome educator will also present and explain a variety of inspiring samples that will convince your customers that this is a machine they can't live without!

Join us for a party fo try the Horizon Memory Craft 12000! This official test drive offers you the opportunity to sit down at this extraordinary machine and create. There's a project for you to make, and you can see all the features that it has. With the ability to turn ordinary projecets into extraordinary creations, your sewing will never be the same!

The National Quilting Association, Inc. welcomes you to its 44th Annual Quilt Show. As the longest running national quilt show in the country, and the only one that is non-juried, we take great pride in celebrating the talents, workmanship and creativity of all quilters. If this is your first time to register for the NQA quilt show - Welcome! If you are a returning registrant - Welcome Back!
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Our show will include nearly 500 competition and special exhibit quilts, classes, free lectures, special events and an extensive vendor mall. We are located in the C-Pod of the Greater Columbus Convention Center. Convenient parking can be found surrounding the Convention Center.

This year’s themed exhibit of Celebrate America! quilts will include the 5th Annual SewBatik Challenge. We will also showcase a number of featured exhibits including the Hoffman Challenge’s 25th Anniversary exhibit, 25th Anniversary Silver Thread, Power Suit Quilts, and The Legacy of Linen.

Join us for The Thursday Night Gathering, where our guest speaker will be Rami Kim. Ms. Kim will present her “World of Fascination” through a fashion and trunk show of her art-to-wear garments, quilts and bags. Ms. Kim is a 2012 IQA Houston Quilt Show winner in Wearable Art, among her many national and international awards. A cash bar will open in the ballroom lobby at 6:00 p.m. Doors open for dinner seating at 6:30 p.m.

Join us for the Annual Meeting of the National Quilting Association on Saturday at 12:00 P.M. which will be held in the NQA Lecture Hall, diagonally across from the Exhibition Hall entrance. We’re looking forward to hearing from our members!

As an organization, NQA promotes and celebrates the education, creativity and heritage of quilters and quilting. We invite you to join us by attending the 44th Annual NQA Quilt Show, and become part of our long standing tradition and legacy. Join your old friends and make new ones as we celebrate quilts and quilting heritage together! We hope to see you there!

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Are you ready for a sewing machine that's So Uniquely You? Come to the Memory Craft 9900 test drive and see how the customizeable machine faceplates, built-in embroidery design, and the smooth sewing that the whole Memory Craft line is known for can fit into your creativity.

Memory Craft 9900 test drive and Crystal parties all week. Call to secure your seat! 919-782-6363

Award winning Pam Holland, quilt teacher and designer, is coming to Alamogordo, New Mexico to present three days of quilt classes and a dinner lecture. Be prepared to be challenged and entertained by Pam while expanding your skills and quilting horizons.

It is now possible for you to sell your quilt at the Festival! On the Quilt Entry Form, check the box to indicate that your quilt is for sale. We will put a nice, bright tag on the quilt that will tell potential buyers to check at our hospitality desk for your contact information. The rest is up to you. Please note: In order to maintain security for all quilts, we will only release a quilt to the person who is specified on the Quilt Entry Form. All sales will be final AFTER the quilt pick-up on Saturday evening.

There are more opportunities to enter your quilts. The categories are on page one of the Quilt Entry Form.

There are two new non-judged categories. There is one for quilts and one for clothing, accessories and home décor.
 

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How can something as simple as a dot bring so much energy and joy into the world? By combining its efforts with hundreds of other little dots! The same is true of quilters. Our combined efforts every year make for a great joy-filled celebration of quiltmaking. The 2013 show theme celebrates three of my favorite things-Polka Dots, Checks and Stripes. Put them all together and let the fun begin!

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Are you ready for a sewing machine that's So Uniquely You? Come to the Memory Craft 9900 test drive and see how the customizeable machine faceplates, built-in embroidery design, and the smooth sewing that the whole Memory Craft line is known for can fit into your creativity.

Before the dust had even settled from the 2012 show, VQF's Board and staff were hard at work planning the 2013 Festival — our 37th since our founding in Northfield. As always, we've rustled up some exceptional quilts, old and new, that cover the range from traditional to modern. We have confirmed several exhibits, starting with Lobby Lights. Susan Damone Balch, long-time friend of the Festival, teacher (AND fly fishing instructor), will offer a restrospective exhibit of her work. You'll find four exhibits in Miller North, commencing with the SewBatik Challenge's 2013 theme, "Summer Solstice." In the front of the hall, see an outstanding display of antique quilts from a private New York collection. Richard and Debra Grana's passion for odd and unusual as well as for beautiful quilts comes through in the 62 exceptional pieces in this exhibit. "Life's Work" is the Festival's tribute to the outstanding quilt artist, Jo Diggs, with 50 quilts on display. The final exhibit in Miller North is a group of 30 quilts assembled by Brenda Papdakis, author of Dear Jane, the best seller about Jane Stickle's astounding 1863 quilt, which can be found in Vermont's Bennington Museum. Added to this exciting cross section are the new quilts in our judged show, a sampling of the best work by quilters from the United States, Canada, and beyond, as well as quilts by our instructors.

Our 2013 faculty will cover a broad range of topics in three and one-half days of instruction. Classes offer a wide assortment of techniques from the most traditional to most non-traditional. Some classrooms will be supplied with machines generously supplied by the major machine companies. And vendors from across the country will be on hand to provide great shopping.

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Join us for a party fo try the Horizon Memory Craft 12000! This official test drive offers you the opportunity to sit down at this extraordinary machine and create. There's a project for you to make, and you can see all the features that it has. With the ability to turn ordinary projecets into extraordinary creations, your sewing will never be the same!

Inspire and impress your customers with the 8900 lecture/demo program. This 90 minute presentation provides information on the most exciting features of this amazing sewing and quilting machine. A Janome educator will also present and explain a variety of inspiring samples that will convince your customers that this is a machine they can't live without!

Inspire and impress your customers with the 8900 lecture/demo program. This 90 minute presentation provides information on the most exciting features of this amazing sewing and quilting machine. A Janome educator will also present and explain a variety of inspiring samples that will convince your customers that this is a machine they can't live without!

Hundreds of quilts on display, huge merchant mall, workshops and lectures of top quilting instructors.

Come celebrate the Hawaiian woman at the Annual Hawaii Woman Expo plus the Hawaii Sewing, Quilting and Craft Show! 

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