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At top is Stars Over Colorado, 77" x 50", by Shirley Gisi of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and below it, Honoring Those Who Served, 58" x 67", by Ann Horton of Redwood Valley, California.
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Don't think of it as just another quilt show. Think of it as an opportunity to party with more than 50,000 of your closest friends who share the same interest.
And from November 4 to 7--for the thirtieth time--Quilts, Inc. will host the party, the International Quilt Festival/Houston, in the newly expanded George R. Brown Convention Center. Classes begin November 1.
The festival will display nearly 2,000 quilts in a variety of exhibits covering every preference, from traditional to contemporary, from bed-size to miniature. This year's showcase of competition entries, Quilts: A World of Beauty, offers $76,750 in cash prizes. Other exhibits will include Celebrate Great Quilts!, a twenty-fifth anniversary retrospective of the International Quilt Association, and I Remember Mama: Mother, My Family, and Me, which will spotlight quiltmakers' relationships with their maternal parents. Husqvarna Viking is sponsoring MasterPieces: Color, Couleur, Colore, Kulor! Once again a collection of fanciful, one-of-a-kind art garments will be displayed in the 2004 Bernina Fashion Show.
QNM will sponsor an exhibit of all the finalist quilts from its thirty-fifth birthday competition, Quilts: 35 Years of Inspiration, Information, and Imagination. The two quilts shown are from the collection. From the top is Stars Over Colorado, 77" x 50", by Shirley Gisi of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and below it, Honoring Those Who Served, 58" x 67", by Ann Horton of Redwood Valley, California. Ann developed her quilt around an image of the soldiers by Vietnam war photographer Hubert Van Es. Helen Kelley, author of the magazine's column Loose Threads, will be in the QNM booth autographing copies of her latest book, Helen Kelley's Joy of Quilting.
For a list of classes and more information about Festival, contact Quilts, Inc., 7660 Woodway, Suite 550, Houston, TX 77063; 713-781-6864; fax 713-781-8182; shows@quilts.com; www.quilts.com.
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