Blue Ridge Quilt Festival, c/o Karin Täuber, P.O. Box 11151, Blacksburg, VA 24062.
Please include your registration fee of $4 per item.
Please make checks payable to Blue Ridge Quilt Festival.
Pleaseinclude a self-addressed and stamped envelope.
You may enter as many quilts or pieces of wearable art as you like.
The Blue Ridge Quilt Festival is a non-judged quilt however each visitor
receives a voting ballot for the "Viewers Choice Award" and the "Runner Up".
NEW IN 2008 - vendor sponsored awards:
First prize for Best of Show: " Wall Hanging"
sponsored and awarded by Algie E. Martin
( 42" Walnut Quilt Hanger)
First prize " Art Quilt Award"
sponsored and awarded by Early Times Workshop
(large Gift Basket)
First prize " Best Use of Batiks"
sponsored and awarded by Batiks Etc & Sew What Batiks
( $ 50 Gift Certificate)
Second prize " Best Use of Batiks"
sponsored and awarded by Batiks Etc & Sew What Batiks
( $ 25 Gift Certificate)
Third prize " Best Use of Batiks"
sponsored and awarded by Batiks Etc & Sew What Batiks
( $ 15 Gift Certificate)
The winner of the "Viewers Choice" contest 2008 receives a Quilting Ratched Frame for machine and hand quilting.
The "Runner Up" winner receives a gift basket filled with quilt goodies.
Registration fee is $4 per accepted item.
The deadline to pre-register your item/s at the Blue Ridge Quilt Festival
is June 8, 2008.
Volunteers show all their quilts for FREE!
Drop-off sites:
Please have your entry at the following stores/sites by 10 am, Saturday, June 14, 2008.
"The Old Trinity School House Quilt Shop" in Fincastle, VA540-992-1233
"Creative Quilting" in Roanoke, VA540-362-4721
"Sew Biz" in Radford, VA540-639-1138
"Sew What Fabrics and Batiks Etc." Wytheville, VA 276-228-6400
Karin Tauber in Blacksburg, VA 540-961-5222
You can deliver and register your entry directly at the New Blacksburg Middle School (show site) on
Wednesday, June 18 from 10 am - 11 am.
I will also register your entry at the Old Church Gallery Quilt Guild meeting on
Monday, June 16 from 10 am- 11.30 am.
Entries may also be sent by mail (with prepaid return UPS shipping only). Please insure your entry and enclose return UPS shipping cost and return insurance fee, if you are not picking up your entry after the festival.
Important: If you plan on mailing your entry, please email me at brqfest@aol.com for the mailing address.
I need to receive your mailed entry by June 14.
Return of entry:
Entries can be picked up by exhibitors after 4.30 pm on Sunday, June 22, 2008 at the New Blacksburg Middle School.
If you do not pick up your entry after the show, it will be returned to the site where you dropped it off.
Quilts for which return shipping fees are provided will be sent back during the week following the show.
Thank you so much for participating in the Blue Ridge Quilt Festival.
Please let me know if you have any further questions.
