Help us reach our grant match! These pieces will be priced at $200 or less and 100% of the proceeds from the sales of these works will go towards the Capital Campaign. This event will be promoted in the official Skagit Valley Tulip Festival Guide.

Please keep the piece at or below dimensions of 24” x 30” and add a 2” hanging sleeve when appropriate. Affix a permanent label on back of your work with the title and your name. Please include a note with your name, address, and phone number for our records.

We encourage you to be creative and experiment with a variety of fabrics, fibers, and textiles. You can help us quilt, knit, weave, stitch, cut, dye, and embellish our way to our grant match!

Call 360-466-4288 if you have any questions.

Shown above is a detail view of a quilt from our 2012 Challenge:  Tulips by Grace Hawley. It is an original, hand applique, hand quilted piece.

At right is a quilt from our 2011 Challenge:   Tulips at the Window by Betty Kincaid, an original, 3-D piece.

This year’s event was a huge success! We would like to thank all the vendors for bringing their unique wares. Also, a huge thank you to all volunteers and everyone else involved who made this event run so smoothly. 

StashFest, a fundraising event for the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, has collected artisans and small companies with unique fabric offerings for a two-day sale on March 31 and April 1, 2012. Nine presenters have been chosen, by invitation, to bring their wares:

• Elin Noble, world-renowned dyer from Massachusetts, with her clamp-dyed cottons and colorful threads
• Lorraine Torrence, a favorite local quilting leader, with her international collection of fabrics, patterns and clothes
• Dean and Linda Moran, master dyers from Arizona, with a phenomenal collection of marbled fabrics
• Leah Weinstein, from British Columbia, with organic and naturally dyed cottons from TenFold Organic
• Patricia Belyea, an artisan quilter from Seattle, with her extensive collection of vintage Japanese yukata cottons
• Ellen Dooley, a bead artist from the Pilchuck area, with her lampwork glass beads for embellishing
• Margot Myers, a batik artist from Bellingham, with cotton yardage printed with her own copper stamps
• Beverly Hunnicutt, a Japanophile and tailor from Seattle, with a huge selection of vintage kimono silks
• Mayo Earnest, a quilter from Anacortes, Mayo is sharing her collection of artisanal Guatemalan cottons, including world-renowned ikat patterns

Hours:  Saturday are 11 - 5 and on Sunday, 11 - 4.

Preview Sale: Saturday 10-11am. One hour before the show opens to the public, there will be a Preview Sale for 106 lucky shoppers. Tickets are $12 and the preview includes refreshments as well as a special door prize. Purchase your ticket at

 www.stashfest.com

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Museum Media Contact: Kathleen Kok, curator@laconnerquilts.com

Event contact: Patricia Belyea, patricia@stashfest.com

You must make an appointment–plan on ½ hour per item. Call 360-466-4288.

The photo sessions will take place at the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 Second Street, La Conner, WA 98257.

Glacier Star, Asian Version by Lorraine Jones; 1st Place Traditional at the 2011 Quilt Festival. Photo by Mariana Foliart, in-house photographer.

Bring show & tell, projects to work on, an Ott light if you need one (+ extension cord), and your lunch.

At left, is a close-up of one of the crazy quilts in our permanent collection, a full image appears below.

To read about this quilt, click here.

At right is an appliqué quilt from our permanent collection. Liberty in America, by Ruth Carol Coombe was the Washington State winner in The Great American Quilt Festival, sponsored by the Museum of American Folk Art in celebration of the Statue of Liberty Centennial.

Photo by Kathleen Kok.

At left, Miwako Kimura; at right Noriko Koyama.

Students learn how to use various silk fabrics and embroidery stitches to appliqué a Japanese design pattern. 

               Project:  Tote bag, 12” x 12”

This workshop is being offered to Members first beginning May 1, 2012. It will be open to the general public on May 21.

Workshop Cost: $45.00; please call the Museum at 360-466-4288 to purchase this workshop.

Material Fee: $15.00 for kit; payable to instructor on day of Workshop.

        The kit includes:  Pattern, fabrics with batting and backing, embroidery needle and thread

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Tools to bring;

-         scissors for paper and fabric,

-         small ruler (20 – 30cm)

-         ball point pen or pencil

-         sewing needle

-         pins (10+)

Interpreter:  Ako Shimozato

Students will learn about making templates, the variety of vintage silks, lay-out and color combinations, piecing and appliquéing parts and applying embroidery stitches.

This workshop is being offered to Members first beginning May 1, 2012. It will be open to the general public on May 21.

Workshop Cost: $55.00; please call the Museum at 360-466-4288 to purchase this workshop.

Material Fee:  $30.00 for kit; payable to instructor on day of Workshop

    -The kit includes assorted vintage silk kimono fabrics, sewing and embroidery thread, needles for sewing and stitching, batting with lining, and base bafric (linen and silk). Frame and mat are NOT included.

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Tools to bring:

-         Scissors for paper, and for fabric

-         ruler (30cm or 12”)

-         red and black pencil

-         pins 30+

-         fine grade sand paper

-         cutting board

-         basting needle and thread

Students learn a basic Ainu embroidery stitches and appliqué with simple Ainu pattern on the indigo dyed cotton fabric.

This workshop is being offered to Members first beginning May 1, 2012. It will be open to the general public on May 21.

Workshop Cost: $45.00; please call the Museum at 360-466-4288 to purchase this Workshop.

Material Fee:  $12.00 for kit; payable to instructor on day of Workshop

        -The kit Includes:  Pattern, indigo dyed fabric, pieces of red and white fabrics, embroidery needle and thread. Pillow and frame NOT included.

Tools to bring

-         two kinds of scissors for paper and fabric

-         small ruler (20 – 30cm)

-         ball point pen

-         sewing needle, black thread

-         pins (10+)

All the Color Explosion! Challenge Kit have been sold out! We are looking forward to seeing all the entries by August 1, 2012.

Kaffe-Brandon Challenge Rules:

Each Kit will contains two fabric fat quarters, one designed by Kaffe Fassett (see left: Paisley Jungle, Tangerine) the other by Brandon Mably (see below:  Bones, Green). One entry per Kit; limit of two entries per person. Download rules & entry form here  Kaffe-Brandon Challenge Rules-Entry Form 2

Your challenge entry need not be a quilt and may be of any shape, but the combined total of all sides of the entry cannot be less than 18″ nor more than 72″. A round entry must have a diameter of at least 6″ but no more than 22″.

 A recognizable amount of both Fassett and Mably fabrics must be used as an integral part of your completed entry, and the two fabrics must appear in the body of the entry (not just the border or binding in the case of a quilt). Any amount of other fabric/fiber/embellishments may be used to complete your entry.

Each entry that is a quilt must have a 4″-wide hanging sleeve attached to the top back for hanging. Other entries that hang must include hardware for hanging. Small entries must be securely attached to and within a shadow box.

An identification label must be securely attached to a bottom back corner of the entry, must contain the title of the entry, and the full name, address, phone number and e-mail address of the entrant as it appears on the Entry Form. Accessory items must also have securely attached labels.

Entries must be clean & odor free to be eligible for inclusion. Please do not add potpourri, sachets or fragrances to your entry out of consideration for those with chemical sensitivities and allergies. Cigarette odor will result in immediate disqualification.

Your entry must be received by August 1, 2012. Please package your entry securely for shipping. Entries which have accessories should be encased in bubble wrap (or similar) for extra protection. All entries should be shipped in a box or padded envelope.

Please consider donating your entry to the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum for one of its fundraising events. If you choose not to donate your entry, include a self-addressed, prepaid shipping label for return, unless you will be retrieving your entry after the 2012 Quilt Festival.

All entries will be hung in the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum from September 1 through the 2012 Quilt Festival, October 5-7. Entry must be museum quality in order to qualify for hanging.

Entries will be voted upon by People’s Choice during the 2012 Quilt Festival and the top three choices will be hung in the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum during Kaffe & Brandon’s visit during the first quarter of 2013.

Fabrics generously donated by Island Quilter of Vashon Island, Washington & Westminster Fabrics.