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Texas Guilds’: Award-winning Traditional Quilts.

International Quilt Festival/Houston plans to showcase winning traditional quilts and their makers in a special exhibit, Texas Guilds’: Award-winning Traditional Quilts. This exhibit will be one of the highlights of International Quilt Market and Festival/Houston, October 27–November 4, 2012. This exhibit is open to guilds in Texas holding a guild show and contest, a minimum of one show every three years.

We would like to invite you and your guild to participate in this exciting exhibit focusing on the Texas traditional quilter. Simply submit the winning traditional quilts from your last guild show to be considered for inclusion in the exhibit.

You may submit a total of two quilts for our consideration. Quilts must be a minimum of 25" x 25". There is no "made after" date requirement.

Completed submissions with visuals must be received online by June 1, 2012. You will be notified no later than July 1, 2012, regarding the quilts to be included in this exhibit along with shipping instructions. If selected, the quilts will need to arrive in Houston no later than August 31, 2012. Quilts will be returned by the end of November 2012.

Entries selected from digital images are subject to additional evaluation when the actual quilt arrives in Houston. If the actual quilt is found to differ significantly from the digital image submitted for jurying, the selection committee reserves the right to reject the entry and override the jurors’ initial decision. The decision as to whether the difference is significant is entirely the prerogative of the committee.

Visual Instructions

Please read carefully the information for your digital images. The complete instructions may be downloaded here: Visual Instructions .

Shipping

Important Special Note to quilters shipping from foreign countries: While we encourage you to insure your work for its full value for insurance purposes, we must ask you to value it for customs declaration purposes only at no more than $50 (U.S.). A higher customs value may require an expensive bond that may not be refunded upon your quilt’s return to its home country. Also mark the customs document with "for exhibition and return, not for sale, no commercial value." We hope you understand that this is for practical purposes only, and certainly does not reflect on Quilt Festival’s estimation of your work. If you wish to claim full value for customs purposes, we recommend that you arrange a carnet A.T.A. for your quilt at your expense. If we incur customs expenses due to a decision on your part to declare the customs value of your quilt as more than $50, you will need to reimburse us for any such expense. If you claim less than $50 for customs purposes, and we still incur customs charges, we will pay those charges in full and will not expect reimbursement.

Timeline

Announcement and preview December 2011
Registration open March 2 to June 1, 2012 (extended from April 27)
Notification by July 1, 2012 (extended from June 1)
Selected quilts arrive in Houston by August 31, 2012
Quilts returned to owner end of November 2012

Registration

Registration is now open. The last day to register is June 1, 2012 until midnight CDT.

To preview the registration forms, click here.

For Help with Resizing Photos or Filling Out Forms, click here.

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To submit your entry on-line, click this button to start:

When you have completed your registration be sure to print a copy of the confirmation page for your records.

For More Information

We look forward to hearing from you. If you have any questions, please contact Carmen Valls, Special Exhibits Coordinator at 713-781-6864, ext. 105, spexhibits2@quilts.com or Amanda Schlatre, Special Exhibits Coordinator at 713-781-6864, ext. 104, spexhibits3@quilts.com. If you have technical questions about the on-line system, please contact Lisa Ellis at lisa@ellisquilts.com.