The Houston International Quilt Festival 2019

The Winchester Quilt Block Trail was honored to be part of the 2019 International Quilt Festival in Houston on October 30-Nov3.  We were located with the other non-profit organizations and it was our goal to spread the word about barn quilts!  

Wednesday was set up day.  Sherwood Gersch and Tom Atkins hauled the barn to Houston in the rain.  They installed the barn quickly and our booth was soon set up and ready to go.  Wednesday evening was preview night for all the people that took advantage of all the wonderful classes the show offers.

Nicolette and Denby Morrison acted as our hosts for the 5 days and we stayed in their lovely home.  10am found us at our booth every day.  We talked to people from all over the world--Iceland, Australia, Canada, Philippines, Germany, the Netherlands--drawn to this show by the love of quilting.  

We passed out brochures and information on classes and sold our blocks.  We also got to wander the aisles of the displayed quilts and hundreds of vendors.  The quilt displays were amazing, such creativity is so impressive.