Donna Douglass with her Florida Quilt Competition Best of Show winning quilt, Flourish on the Vine.
You can view this quilt along with all the Florida Quilt Competition entries and special exhibit quilts at World Quilt Florida at the Orange County Convention Center, 10:00am to 6:00pm today & tomorrow, January 8-9.
World Quilt Florida at the Orange County Convention Center, January 7-9, 2016, will have an amazing collection of special exhibitions. This year, several guilds from Florida are taking part in the quilt festival in the best way they know – by creating quilts. There will be a lot of beauty, talent and fabric in one room!
Special Exhibits will be presented by:
World Quilt Florida is coming to Orlando, January 7-9, 2016. Mancuso Show Management is thrilled to bring the event to such an amazing city! The festival will be held in Hall E2, West Concourse of the Orange County Convention Center on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm each day. This unique quilt and textile event offers attendees a trip around the world – no passport needed!
Advance show tickets can be purchased at a discount of $1.00 off the $12.00 admission price ($11.00) at the following local businesses:
The World Quilt Competition, Florida Quilt Competition and other special exhibitions allow attendees to view over 500 quilts! For those who love anything quilt related, this display of quilt art should not be missed!
Plus, the aisles of the World Quilt Merchants Mall will be filled with everything a happy shopper could possible imagine and more: sewing machines, long arm machines, machine accessories, needles, pins, fabric markers, books, jewelry, thread, more fabric than you’ve ever seen in one place, notions, batting, patterns, stencils, finished ‘art’ clothing and patterns for clothing, shoes, jewelry making supplies, sewing machine carrying bags, scissors, rotary cutters, rotary cutting mats, rulers, magazines, magnification products, yarn and knitting supplies, trims, buttons, beads, stencils and more … much, much more!
January 7-9, 2016, World Quilt Florida relocates to Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center. Included as always at the event will be the always-popular Florida Quilt Competition. Like a fine art show, the entries to this competition are an impressive showcase of some of Florida’s most talented quilt and textile artists. For those who love anything quilt related, this display of quilt art should not be missed!
The Competition highlights quilt art created by Florida
artists who are competing while representing their quilt and textile art communities with a fabulous collection of artwork. The competition entrants will be competing for over $3,500 in prizes. Pictured: I Still Remember When by Sandi Snow, Judge’s Choice: Florida Quilt Competition 2015.
The Competition Entry Form is available on the show’s website or you may enter online. Also, due to the delayed launch of the new quiltfest.com web site, the entry deadline has been revised to December 14, 2015.
Major Annual Sponsor Brother, Major Vendor Sponsors BERNINA/Wandering Stitches, Juki/The Sewing Studio, Janome/Heartfelt Quilting and Sewing, and Elna-Baby Lock/Sew-Mini Things; and Sponsors ABM Innova, Handi Quilter and Sew Batik generously support World Quilt Florida.