ABOVE: Detail of Her Majesty in Blue, a quilt by Kerry Hook in Cheddar, UK
By Patricia Belyea
BIRMINGHAM UK What does it take to submit a quilt to a festival? Besides making your best work, you have to complete the entry forms, carefully package your masterpiece, and ship it across town or across the world.
Then you have to accept that it will be judged alongside hundreds of extraordinary quilts. That takes pure bravery!
To follow is just a snippet of the 820 quilts on display at this year’s Festival of Quilts.
The Poison Apple
Mary Palmer — Innishannon, Ireland
Tansy Martin & Mary Thorogood — Canterbury, UK
Julianne Walther — Cary, USA
Colleen Butler — St. Francis Bay, South Africa
Jo Avery — Linlithgow, UK
Alison Toni — Edinburgh, Scotland
Jessie Chorley — London, UK
Rhonda Donney — Emporia, USA
Linda Steele — Park Orchards, Australia
Tanja Alexeeva — Stockholm, Sweden
Claudia Scheja — Werne, Germany
Sue Sherman — Newmarket, Canada
Krisztina Feller-Pelle — Balatonfüred, Hungary
Jongkeong Lee — Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Jan Hamilton — Balluchulish, UK
Peter Hayward — Javea, Spain
Paula Steel — Adlington, UK
Linda Steele — Park Orchards, Australia
Linda Steele — Park Orchards, Australia
TO SEE MORE BLOG POSTS ABOUT FESTIVAL OF QUILTS 2026:
winning quilts at FOQ 2026 +click here
competition quilts at FOQ 2026 :: part two +click here
the beauty of japan at FOQ 2026 +click here
textile galleries at FOQ 2026 +click here
something unexpected at FOQ 2026 +click here
red poppies at FOQ 2026 +click here
peeps, shopping & learning at FOQ 2026 +click here
