
Events & Quilt Shows

2025 Maine Quilt Shop Hop Come to Dark Star Fabrics April 1st – April 30th
Dark Star Fabrics is among 26 independent fabric shops welcoming friends to the 25th annual Maine Quilt Shop Hop.
As you “hop” to each shop, you will receive a 5-inch charm square. In addition to charm square, Dark Star Fabrics guests will receive a free gift and a chance to enter our drawing for weekly prizes.
When you visit five or more shops, you are eligible for state-wide prizes and you can vote for your favorite Shop Challenge Quilt.
Highlight of Shop Hop: Maine Designer Ericka O’Rourke designed this year’s exclusive Shop Hop fabrics. Northcott Fabrics made the ten custom prints and two custom panels, along with eight blenders. They will be available only at Maine Quilt Shop Hop shops.

Quilt Across Connecticut
Plan Your Next Quilting Adventure Hopping to 5 Great Quilting shops!
Cotton Candy, Colchester Mill, Sew Inspired, Yankee Cloth, Yankee Quilter
Pick up your Passport at any of the shops to start your hopping……..
Visit the 5 Shops between April 4-12, 2025
New Demos - New Trends - Take your Quilting to the next level!
Shop Specials, Refreshments and opportunities to enter prizes!!
#ctquiltshophop

Haddam Neck Congregational Church Quilt Show
The 36th Annual Quilt Show will be held Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday,from 12 noon to 5PM featuring dozens of hand made quilts, a tea room...
$8

New England Quilt Expo for Hands on Workshops and Quilt Displays
Join Bits N’ Pieces Quilt Shoppe at the NEOE for hands-on workshops and quilt displays!
Check out their website for details and sign ups.
There is something for everyone to do, whether your a beginner or expert! Lots to explore, learn and enhance your skills.
Event Dates:
April 9 - Classes Begin
April 10-11 - Quilt Show & Marketplace (9-5pm)
April 12 - Quilt Show & Marketplace (9-3pm)

AQS Quiltweek Quilt Show — Kentucky
Fun-Filled Days in Quilt City USA
Schroeder Expo Center
Paducah, Kentucky
April 23, 2025 - April 26, 2025


World of Quilts Show - A Celebration of Traditional, Modern, and Art Quilts
Annual show of over 300 quilts displays the many facets of the art and craft of quilting: traditional to modern to improvisational to fiber art and includes well-known speakers, special exhibits, demonstrations, raffles, quilts for sale, and vendors selling fabric, quilting related items, and sewing machines.

World of Quilts
Northern Star Quilt Guild presents:
WORLD OF QUILTS – A Celebration of Traditional, Modern, and Art Quilts

Hands All Around 19 Quilt Show
Hands Across the Valley Quilters Guild features more than 200 quilts by their talented members, as well as, a Special Exhibit from the New England Quilt Museum on what’s best about Massachusetts.

GHQG Quilt Show - “Every Quilt Tells a Story”
Greater Hartford Quilt Show
Manchester, Connecticut
June 7 - 8, 2025

Celebrations and Inspiration - West Hartford, CT
Celebrations and Inspirations Quilt Show
West Hardford, CT
June 14 & 15, 2025

Maine Quilts Quilt Show
Pine Tree Quilters Guild presents Maine Quilts annually during the last weekend of July. We are a guild passionate about everything quilting who share and learn more about our art.

Quilt Show at Kellogg Environmental Center
POP OF COLOR Quilt Show w/SCTMQG being a Co-Sponsor
Quilts Displayed Outside along with Vintage Quilts and more being shown inside the Osborn Homestead Museum!
More details to come as the Event gets organized!!

Quilts All Around Town
Quilts All Around the Town Quilt Show in New London CT
Host: Clamshell Quilt Guild
New London, CT
August 1- 3, 2025

AQS Quiltweek Quilt Show - Michigan
Quilting on a Grand Scale
DeVos Place Convention Center
Grand Rapids, Michigan
August 20, 2025 - August 23, 2025

All New England Shop Hop 2025!
Sewing Adventures in New England!
*Magazines will be available for purchase at your local quilt shop in July
Shop Hop New England States
- Connecticut - Maine - Massachusetts - New Hampshire - Vermont

AQS Quiltshow Quilt Show - Pennsylvania
Pursue Quilting Happiness
Nook Meetings & Events
Manheim, Pennslyvania
September 10 2025 - September 13, 2025

Farmington Valley Quilters Show
FABRIC to FABULOUS - Farming Valley Quilters present their 2025 Quilt Show!!

Quilts in the Mill Quilt Show
“Confetti of Color” presented by: Courthouse Quilters
Vendor Marketplace - Boutique - Mini-Quilt Raffles - Raffle - Food vendors

Annual Yuletide Quilt Show – Haddam, CT
Come enjoy some Holiday fun at the Annual Yuletide Quilt Show
Over 150 quilts and quilted items will be on display at the Annual Yuletide Quilt Show. Quilts range from antique heirlooms to modern-day creations. Several quilts will be for sale.
Come vote for your favorite quilt, enjoy a home-cooked, hearty lunch, enter to win one of many raffle baskets, shop the “Crafty Tag Sale”, or try your luck at winning the quilt raffle.
Over the years, this event has grown to become one of the church’s flagship fundraisers, with all proceeds going towards the church’s diverse outreach and mission-based initiatives.
Handicap accessible. Wheelchair entrance at the south door with elevator access to the Fellowship Hall on the lower level.
Parking: Ample on-site parking on both sides of the church as well as handicap parking near the south entrance.
Food: We will be serving a lunch of homemade soup, artisan bread, and homemade pies. Take-out is available.

Quilt Con 2026
QuiltCon 2026 in Raleigh
February 19-22, 2026
at the Raleigh Convention Center
featuring Hillary Goodwin
Details to be announced in May 2025

Quilt Week New England
The American Quilter's Society is thrilled to announce the launch of AQS QuiltWeek – New England, taking place April 8-11, 2026, at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, CT. Quilters can look forward to a vibrant event featuring a wide array of quilt exhibits, quilting workshops, and vendors. Hotel booking information will be available shortly. Instructor and class announcements are scheduled for Fall 2025, with registration opening in December 2025. In the meantime, please mark your calendars and save the dates!

QUILT San Franciso is Coming in March 2025!
Virtual or in-person on the California Coast
https://www.sfquiltersguild.org/show/

A Quilter's Destination Quilt Show
58 + Vendors / Quilt Exhibits / Free Gift Basket Raffle
The Lancaster-Lebanon Quilt Show is entering its 33rd year- now in Lebanon, PA
Best of all, Admission is free!

AQS Quiltweek Quit Show- Missouri
Quilts Take Center Stage
Branson Convention Center
Branson, Missouri
March 12, 2025 - March 15, 2025

Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival
Join in the 36th Annual celebration of the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival.
The Merchants Mall will feature everything for quilt, fiber, wearable & textile artists, and home sewers. In addition, MAQF will present the finest collection of quilt, garment, and fiber art exhibitions including quilt and wearable art prize money competitions. Rounding out the event will be workshops and lectures presented by leading instructors along with demonstrations throughout the Merchants Mall.

AQS Quiltweek Quilt Show - Florida
Fun in the Sun Quilting
Ocean Center
Daytona Beach, Florida
February 19, 2025 - February 22

Super Bowl Shop Hop
Join the fun with Cotton Candy Fabrics, Yankee Quilter and The Quilted Ewe for a Super Bowl Shop Hop weekend
Visit all three shops over the weekend and next Saturday Feb. 15th to be entered in their amazing prizes.
Goodie Bags and Refreshments will be available at all three shops :)
Cost: FREE
www.cottoncandyfabrics.com
www.quiltedewe.com
www.yankeequilter.com

Annual Yuletide Quilt Show - Haddam, CT
Over 150 quilts and quilted items will be on display at the Annual Yuletide Quilt Show. Quilts range from antique heirlooms to modern-day creations. Several quilts will be for sale.Come... $8

Bucc Quilt Show & Sale
It's Back.......by popular demand......and just because I like to have a 'Quilt Party' once a year. As you can see the theme is Holiday Quilts. It's gonna be fun. If you have a quilt or quilt top you'd like us to hang, regardless of whether it fits the theme or not, We'd be honored to have your work in the show. Just fill out an entry form off the website and email or snail mail it to me. If you have a quilt you'd like to consign that works, too. BUCC takes 25% in consignment fee.
Once again the entry fee applies only to the days of the quilt show. Starting Monday after the show entry to the sewing tag sale is Free. The sewing tag sale will continue all that following week. Taking donations now for the sewing tag sale.
Looking forward to seeing everyone again and a whole new crop of show quilts. Let's all be inspired and enjoy ourselves!
Keep cool and keep sewing,

The Power of Color Lecture and Presentation - w/Kaffee & Brandon Malby
This lecture and presentation are designed to empower and inspire you to create and develop your “mind’s eye,” and ready to experiment with color yourself.
Ticket price for the lecture includes a copy of Kaffe’s upcoming book, Kaffe Fassett’s Quilts on an English Farm. Kaffe and Brandon will sign books for lecture attendees after the presentation concludes. Cotton Candy Fabrics will also feature a kaffe-tastic pop-up shop of Kaffe Fassett Collective sample quilts, fabrics, kits, precuts, accessories and more!

Herring Run Quilt Guild - Quilt Show
17th Biennial Quilt Show
September 21 -22
Be awed and inspired by the talent and creativity on display. Come view the expansive collection of quilts from our members
150+ Quilts
Silent Auction
Raffle Quilt
Demonstrations
Raffle Baskets
Refreshments
Vendors

Creative Arts at The Big E
Quilting entries are now open…..Review the details and links provided
For additional information, contact Creative Arts at CreativeArts@TheBigE.com or call (413) 205-5015


Berlin Fair Quilts and Quilted Items Exhibit
The Central Connecticut Modern Quilt Guild will be showcasing works of art in: Quilts, Quilted Bags and Wall Hangings. The Fair has many other vendors, entertainment and competitions. Check them out at: www.ctberlinfair.com

Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza
Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, PA
September 12-15, 2024
"PNQE will be dishing up all the ingredients needed for a successful quilt show including unique and beautiful displays of quilts and works of textile and wearable art. Plus, as past patrons know, the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza features an amazing Merchants Mall filled with vendor booths, offering everything quilters and needle crafters need to quench their creative thirsts. This popular event is the largest and most comprehensive quilt festival in a state known for its rich history of quilting.."

American Quilter's Society Quilt Week
Quilting in Pennsylvania Dutch Country
Discover the simple pleasures and abundant treasures of Pennsylvania Dutch Country. With a long heritage of quilting and crafting, Lancaster is the perfect place to experience AQS QuiltWeek. See hundreds of quilts, take a class with your favorite quilting star, and shop ‘til you drop at the merchant mall.
Spooky Nook Sports Conference Center
75 Champ Blvd., Manheim, PA 17545
https://www.americanquilter.com/quiltweek/event/landing/eventid/34

AQSG Seminar Quilt Exhibit - Open to Public
Saturday, Sept. 7th from 1-4pm, Semiar Quilt Exhibit is open to the Public. Cost to enter is $10

Bridgewater Country Fair
Enter a Quilt in the Bridgewater Country Fair
https://www.bridgewaterfair.com/contests
(Cotton Candy Fabric Shop is accepting quilts for the competition)

Hudson River Piecemakers Quilt Guild Show
From Glen Falls TODAY article: The Hudson River Piecemakers Quilt Guild warmly invites you to “Quilting in the Adirondacks,” a quilt show that will inspire with close to 100 quilts on display. Featuring an impressive array of Bonnie Hunter mystery quilts, Barbara Nichols Challenge Quilts, Kids Quilts, and a celebration of the Adirondacks quilters of all ages and skill levels.
Explore a stunning exhibition with both professional and people’s choice judging. Browse our boutique for unique handmade gifts and items. Enhance your skills with our quilting technique demonstrations and discover the heartwarming community service projects spearheaded by the Guild. Quilt appraisals also available. Special quilt raffle, exciting gifts, and much more!

Mattatuck Museum Quilts
From the website: Stitching the Revolution explores themes of revolution through quilting, a medium traditionally confined to the domestic sphere and often relegated to the lower status of craft or minor art. This exhibition offers a new approach to understanding the practice of quilting as an avenue through which to express potent beliefs and an outlet to create meaningful change. Tracing the long history of quilts as a medium for communicating revolutionary ideas, the exhibition pairs historic and contemporary quilts spanning over 200 years of production. Stitching the Revolution features approximately 30 quilts from the Mattatuck Museum’s collection, and loans from New England institutions and contemporary artists.

Vermont Quilt Sampler Barn Exhibition - Billings Farm & Museum
The exhibition will be displayed in the Billings Farm Historic Barn gallery from June 29 – September 2, 2024.
To embrace the rich tapestry of quilting talent from across the state, the exhibition curators seek to display approximately 50 quilts that span a spectrum of abilities and techniques, showcasing both traditional and modern styles. Most importantly, Billings Farm & Museum will share the stories that are stitched into each quilt and the connection to community that these represent.
During the exhibition, the public will be invited to try engaging, hands-on activities and crafts relating to quilting throughout the exhibition. On select weekends, local quilting guilds will gather and offer experiences to further educate and inspire guests.
The exhibition is included with admission to Billings Farm & Museum.

Bayberry Quilters of Cape Cod Quilt Show; Harwich, Massachusetts
“Welcome Aboard” to Bayberry Quilters’ Annual Quilt show July 31 – August 2, 2024 at the Cape Tech High School in Harwich. There will be plenty of quilts on exhibit, vendors for shopping and lots of activities for both beginning and experienced quilters.
The show will be open 10 am – 4 pm on Wednesday and Thursday and 10 am – 3 pm on Friday. Admission is $12; children under 12 are free. A group admission rate is available for guilds and other groups; please contact the show chair at quiltshow@bayberryquiltersofcapecod.com for details.

Pop of Color Quilt Show
Enjoy a weekend outdoor quilt show on the grounds of the Kellogg Estate. For four days the grounds will show off the color, variety and techniques of quilters from a variety of guilds and groups as well as individuals who just love to play with design. It is open to all to enjoy and you are welcome to come and picnic using the tables or spread a quilt of your own on the lawn. The show is a fair weather event and will not be outdoors if raining or if there are high winds. Call to make sure it is on display. This year our featured partner guild is teh Southford Falls Quilt Guild who will be here "Under the Trees" doing hand work and ready to answer questions and share information about quilting. Interested or new quilters are welcome to come and visit. Down the street on Hawthorne Ave. stop into Derby Neck Library where an annex display of quilts will be displayed as well- we have grown so much. Don't miss out.

Maine Quilts 2024
Pine Tree Quilters Guild presents Maine Quilts 2024! Over 500 Quilts from Antique to Contemporary Judged Division
Workshop and Lectures, Demonstrations, Raffles or just viewing!

Christmas in July @ Cotton Candy Fabrics Store
Summer Holiday fun in CT!
Back to School Drive - Donate a School Supply and win a FREE Fat Quarter
- Free Holiday Make and Take
- Easy Holiday Gift Projects
- Shop Specials
-Holiday Game with Prizes
- Holiday Refreshments

Summer Pop Up Shop
One Day Sale
Hosted by Sue’s Fabric Work & Me, Pinwheels and Christies Quilting Boutique

Hang a Quilt Day in CT
Showcase the art & beauty of quilting with this one-air quilt show!
* Hang a quilt outside your home - on your garage, clothesline, fence, ch
* Ask a local business if you can display a quilt for the day
* Post a picture of social media with #CTHangAQuiltDay
No Cost or registration required

Genesee Valley QuiltFest
600 Quilts on display, 60+ Vendors, Workshops & Lectures
Sponsored by Sew Creative

World of Quilts
Northern Star Quilter’s Guild, World of Quilts, will be held at Purchase College.
Purchase Collage, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY

Up Up and Away Quilt Show
The Pioneer Valley Quilt Guild biannual quilt show is taking place this weekend with nearly 100 quilts and, believe it or not, an 8′ quilted balloon. These are just a few of the many things you can see at this weekend’s quilt show. Here to tell us more are Elaine Conway, the secretary of the Pioneer Valley Quilt Guild, and John Roy, co-chair of the Quilt Show committee.
