Photos: 37th annual Quilt Show, Quilt Fiesta
Quilts of various designs and shapes at the 37th annual Quilt Show
37th annual Quilt Show
Tucsonan Monta Anderson, center, and her friend Jennifer Beck, from Safford, looks at some of the quilts on display during Sunday's Tucson Quilters Guild 37th annual Quilt Show, Quilt Fiesta at the Tucson Convention Center, 180 S Church Ave. The three-day event featured demonstrations, vendors and quilts on display.
37th annual Quilt Show
Hostess Connie Weigel walks around the quilt gallery before the start of the Tucson Quilters Guild 37th annual Quilt Show, Quilt Fiesta. The three-day event featured demonstrations, vendors, quilts on display and the 2015 raffle quilt. With paid admission door prizes were offered and all demonstrations and speakers were free.
37th annual Quilt Show
Using both her hands to guide the machine, Pat Alderman, a Juki educator, creates a freestyle design using the long arm quilting machine during Quilt Fiesta. Juki, a Japanese manufacturer of industrial sewing machines, recently got into making machines for the home which can be used with a computer or do it can be done by hand, Alderman said.
37th annual Quilt Show
Amateur photographer Kathy Tolpa gets a shot of some of the quilts on display during the Tucson Quilters Guild 37th annual Quilt Show, Quilt Fiesta at the Tucson Convention Center.
37th annual Quilt Show
Hostess Jean Owara shows off the motif on the back side of a quilt made by Kathy Hansen and Mimi Tremoulet during the Tucson Quilters Guild 37th annual Quilt Show, Quilt Fiesta.
37th annual Quilt Show
Sisters Kristi, foreground, and Marilee Rosing, examine some of the quilts on display during the Tucson Quilters Guild 37th annual Quilt Show, Quilt Fiesta at the Tucson Convention Center.
37th annual Quilt Show
One of the President's Challenge Quilts, "Cry Me a River," by Diane Hartman, is on display during the Tucson Quilters Guild 37th annual Quilt Show, Quilt Fiesta. The challenge was to create a small quilt, expressing it in such a way that the viewer would be able to understand the expression.
37th annual Quilt Show
Natasha Gonzalez, middle, shows some of the items from her mother's business, Monica's Quilt and Bead Creators, during the Tucson Quilters Guild 37th annual Quilt Show, Quilt Fiesta.
37th annual Quilt Show
Canadian Peggy Bovey looks at some of the quilts hanging in the quilt gallery during the Tucson Quilters Guild 37th annual Quilt Show, Quilt Fiesta at the Tucson Convention Center.
37th annual Quilt Show
More than 50 vendor booths are spread out along the floor during the Tucson Quilters Guild 37th annual Quilt Show, Quilt Fiesta at the Tucson Convention Center. The three-day event featured demonstrations, vendors, quilts on display and the 2015 raffle quilt. With paid admission door prizes were offered and all demonstrations and speakers were free.
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