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Upper County Quilt Show 2024

Upper County Quilt Show 2024

In June, 2024, we attended the 3rd annual Upper County quilt show in Cambridge, Idaho which has a population of only 335, located in Washington County (population 11k). For a location with this population – there sure were a lot of wonderful quilts to look at. I got a picture of a few before finding out both camera batteries quickly went dead. This quilt show is open for an entire week at the local school so there is plenty of…

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Quilts in the City Quilt Show – 2024 – Yakima, WA

Quilts in the City Quilt Show – 2024 – Yakima, WA

May 17th and 18th of 2024 found us in Yakima, Washington enjoying the Quilts in the City show put on by the Yakima Valley Quilters’ Guild. There was an entire convention hall filled with quilts and another filled with vendors. They labeled all the aisles as street names, like you were in a city of quilts! There were a lot of imaginative roads to be found. I am always partial to Halloween, so here was my favorite Halloween quilt –…

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Boise Basin Quilters Quilt Show 2023

Boise Basin Quilters Quilt Show 2023

The last weekend of September in Boise, Idaho finds us at the Boise Basin Quilters 2023 show. There were so many quilts to look at in the exhibition hall as well as a whole hall of vendors and demonstrations. A lot to see and do to fill your day. This was the 40th annual quilt show and the theme was the “Ruby Jubilee” – so they had a special category of competition for red and white only quilts. There were…

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Quilts by the Sea Quilt Show 2023

Quilts by the Sea Quilt Show 2023

Our 3rd adventure of the year finds us in Newport, Oregon during the first weekend of August for the Annual Quilts by the Sea show. This is our 2nd time attending this show and it’s always a lot of fun to head to the coast from the inland desert to escape the heat. The show is held at the Newport Recreation center and upon entering they have 2 gyms stuffed with over 300 quilts to admire. Like most of the…

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VALLEY OF PLENTY QUILT SHOW 2023

VALLEY OF PLENTY QUILT SHOW 2023

Our second adventure takes us to Emmett, Idaho to the valley of plenty quilt show held during the annual Emmett Cherry festival. Upon entry there was a hall filled with quilts, many were “Quilts of Valor” that are donated to veterans Although below wasn’t a “Quilt of Valor” I thought it fit that theme very well and thought to take a picture of it and put it here for you to enjoy. It was called American Quilter, a pattern by…

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Upper County Quilt Show 2023

Upper County Quilt Show 2023

Our first adventure takes us to Cambridge Idaho and the 2nd Annual Upper County Quilt show. This is the first time we have been to this quilt show – the theme for the show was “One Room School House”. Since we had never been here before we were excited to see the variety of quilts displayed. There were quite a few quilts to be admired (almost 100), a student division, plus a challenge block wall with quilt blocks focusing on…

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