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AQS Quilt Show & Contest - Des Moines

Event Details

Time: September 28, 2011 at 9am to October 1, 2011 at 5pm
Location: Hy-Vee Hall
Street: 730 Third Street
City/Town: Des Moines
Website or Map: http://www.iowaeventscenter.c…
Phone: (515) 564-8000
Event Type: craft, /, trade, show
Organized By: Iowa Events Center
Latest Activity: Jul 7, 2011

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Event Description

Welcome to the 4th Annual AQS Quilt Show & Contest in Des Moines, Iowa, September 28 - October 1, 2011.

A gigantic Merchant Mall will have all of the latest quiltmaking supplies + new and antique quilts + quilt-related gifts - it's a dream shopping mall for any quilter.

Quilters will be vying for more the $44,000 in cash awards in teh AQS Quilt Contest. More than 1,000 quilts will be on display including:

*AQS Quilt Contest

*Annual show of the Des Moines Area Quilters Guild quilts using the theme: A community of Quilts & Quilters.

A variety of special quilt exhibits will be featured:

*2012 Pilgrim/Roy Invitational Quilt Challenge

*AQS Authors' Quilt Exhibit

*International Sunbonnet Sue Quilt Contest

*New Quilts from an Old Favorite: Orange Peel, semifinalists in the annual contest of the National Quilt Museum, Paducah, Kentucky

*Quilted Yurt by Linzi Upton, Scotland

*World War II Quilts from the collection of Sue Reich

For more information and ticketing please visit the American Quilter's Society website.