Hello Friends!
Plans for the 17th annual Best of the Valley Quilt and Doll Show are well underway. We’ve been working behind the scenes, reserving our facility, lining up vendors, updating entry forms and preparing for upcoming mailings. Mark your calendar for April 13, 14, 15, 2012. The show will be held a week later than usual, due to the timing of Easter. We’ve got other changes in the works as well, so be sure to read your entry forms and guidelines carefully. We don’t want you to miss our latest updates.
This year’s featured artist will be Judie Fleming of Visalia, CA. If you attended our 2011 show, you saw that she won both the Best Hand Quilting and the Best Machine Appliqué awards. Her work is exquisite, and often traditional in nature. I find it to be quite inspirational.
The Hoffman Challenge wall quilts will be back, accompanied by a trunk of Hoffman Challenge dolls. We expect another spectacular display of competition quilts this year, as we do every year. The entry deadline is Friday, February 24, 2012. If the deadline has not yet passed, we encourage you to submit your work for consideration. Anyone is welcome to enter, and we award over $3000 in premiums.
The show will be held at the McDermont Field House, in Lindsay, CA.
For those of you wondering where that is, it is 15 minutes east of Tulare, which is halfway between Fresno and Bakersfield, off the 99. If you’re interested in putting together a bust trip for your guild or church group, be sure to contact us. We’re the perfect venue for a day trip, as we offer amazing quilts, exciting vendors, on-site food and happy faces. This year the parking shuttle will also stop at restaurants around town, if the on-site food offerings are not to your liking. We offer a discount rate for groups of 10 or more, as long as you make advance arrangements.
Be sure to check back with us as we get closer to show dates, and don’t forget to monitor our blog. We use it to post updates and developments as they arise.
Thank you to all who help make this show the Best of the Valley. Whether you’re on the committee, an entrant, a vendor, or simply an attendee, each of you helps make the show a success. Spread the word, come and see, and bring your friends!!
See you in April, 13-15, 2012!!
Suzanne Kistler
Chairman, The Best of the Valley