The festival, which takes place the weekend after Labor Day,  features a vendor mall, quilt show, quilting classes, national speakers, and trunk shows. If you are into quilting or crafts... this is a festival for you!!

Quilt Show:

Enjoy over 300 quilts... including the 2022 Hoffman Quilt Challenge Into the Meadows and Sew We Never Forget 9/11 World Trade Center Memorial Quilts

Entry to the quilt show is included with admission

2022 Quilt Entry Form

Special Activities:

Quilting Bee For Charity: There will be local ladies hand quilting during the Festival and everyone is welcome to sit and add some stitches, or just chat and ask questions. The quilt will be donated to a local charity upon completion!

Admission $10.00 a day, pay at the door!
Admission is Free with Paid Class Fee!

Schedule:

Thursday, September 8, 2022

2022 Thursday Classes and Trunk Shows

9:00 - 4:00pm: Dimensional Thread Painting with Joyce Hughes
Cost: $109 includes panel, batting, and backing

Want to learn Dimensional Thread Painting but think it's too hard? Join award-winning, self-taught quilter/fiber artist, and author Joyce Hughes for an introduction into thread painting.

In this class you will start with a beautiful panel (included with the class) to create a piece of art! You will learn the proper steps of dimensional thread painting and find it to be a fun and creative technique. You will explore the various thread selection, setting you your machine for stitching techniques with free motion quilting of zig zag and straight stitching. See the fabric come to life as you sew and layer threads on top of your design.

You will use thread as paint and sew with different types of threads and color combinations. You will learn how to create interesting texture and dimension to your quilt project.
You will leave with a full knowledge of dimensional thread painting and create a one-of-a-kind piece of art!

Techniques Taught: Dimensional Thread Painting, Crystal Embellishment, Blocks and Squaring a Quilt, and Much More! No prior experience required!

9:00 - 12:30pm: Sweetcake Quilt with Corey Yoder
Cost: $45 plus book and fabric

Come join Moda Fabric designer and author, Corey Yoder, and learn how to make a Sweetcake block from her brand, new book, “Oh, Happy Day!”.  In this 3-hour class, Corey will walk you through making the block featured in the Sweetcake quilt.  Techniques covered will be square in a square blocks as well as half-square-triangles.

This class is a confident beginner/early intermediate class.

Sweetcake is a beautiful quilt made using half a layer cake (10" squares) and a few additional fabrics. Since a layer cake typically contains 40-42 squares, you'll have extra to make a second quilt or enlarge the one you start in class. Simply double the yardage for the additional fabrics and you'll be set to go! This block looks great when made into a pillow, and the instructions are included in the book.

9:00 - 12:00pm: English Paper Piecing Technique Class - Thursday - with Audra Rasnake
Cost: $45

Award-winning quilter Audra Rasnake, will teach you the basics of English Paper Piecing, sometimes referred to as EPP.

This technique uses the method of folding fabric around paper shapes and basting them in place until the shapes are sewn together using the traditional whipstitch. We will practice doing several shapes that will include straight edges, curves, and some with very sharp points. Students will learn the various ways that EPP can be incorporated to create large and small projects and discover how this method can be very helpful with quilt patterns that are more difficult to construct using a traditional approach to piecing. EPP is not just for Grandmother's Flower Garden! Audra's hope is that some of you will either remember an old attempt at a quilt block that failed miserably and take another try at it or that you will tackle a block that you had once considered too hard...EPP is GREAT for tricky patterns and for creating new ones!

9:00 - 12:00pm: Embroidered Greeting Card Making 101 - Thursday - with Carol Sciarini
Cost: $60 (includes kit)

Have you ever spent hours trying to find just the right card for a friend or relative? We now have the solution - Embroidery Card Making 101!

Join Carol Sciarini as she guides you through Donna Raufff's techniques and teaches you how to create beautiful, one-of-a-kind personalized cards on an embroidery machine. You will make one card in class, using the kit provided. After that, you'll be ready to pick the perfect designs for each recipient and add the perfect sentiment to make your card giving extra special.  

1:00 - 4:00pm: Folded Cutwork Applique Technique Class - Thursday - with Audra Rasnake
Cost: $45

Award-winning quilter Audra Rasnake will teach the basics of needle turn applique.

As the name implies. the needle turn method involves using the shaft and the point of the needle to turn under the raw edges of fabric as it is stitched down onto a background. We will be using a technique called "folded cutwork" to create our applique pattern. This is basically folding freezer paper (think of making paper snowflakes as a child) and using the cutout design as our applique. Audra prefers to teach this method to beginners of applique because it is a project that will take several hours to finish and will give you lots of practice on the four elements of needle turn: inside curves, outside curves, inside points, and outside points. You will get started on the block in class and then take it home to complete after some practice time.

1:00 - 4:00pm: Embroidered Greeting Card Making - Fabric Frame Class with Carol Sciarini
Cost: $60 (includes kit)

In this class you will take your Embroidery Card Making skills to the next level!

Carol Sciarini will teach you how to enhancing the skills you learned in the Embroidered Card Making Card 101 class by adding an oval or rectangle fabric frame to a smaller design. The steps to create these cards are a little different than those learned in the 101 Class.

Class Prerequisite: Embroidered Card Making 101 (taken at the Ohio's Amish Country Quilt Festival or Chestnut Ridge Sewing)

4:30pm: Teri Tope Trunk Show - A Girl with a Checkered Past and a Future in Pieces
Cost: $15

Teri Tope Trunk Show - “Girl with a Checkered Past and a Future in Pieces”

Join Teri as she walks you through her life journey and the quilts that followed her along the way. Starting with that very first quilt and ending with her most recent. This trunk show is entertaining and sure to make you laugh out loud!  Teri will show of over 30 quilts during her presentation, so you won't want to miss this!

Friday, September 9, 2022

2022 Friday Classes and Trunk Shows

9:00 - 4:00pm: Beginning Free Motion Quilting with Teri Tope
Cost: $70

Never be frightened of the phrase “Quilt as Desired” again. Join Teri Tope in a relaxing adventure into free motion quilting. Easy loops, swirls and circles come together to form simple designs. Then combine these designs to create even more quilting option. Teri was once a beginner and wished she could have attended a class with hands on application of machine quilting for the beginner. This class is everything she wished she had learned.

Class starts with how to baste a quilt properly, needle and thread selections, and progresses to simple walking foot designs and on to beginner level free motion designs. Teri will then take those simple beginner designs and demonstrate how they can be expanded on into more complex designs.  Class includes numerous tips, tricks and design handouts.

9:00 - 4:00pm: Techniques, Techniques, and More Techniques of Thread Painting with Joyce Hughes
Cost: $119 includes panel, batting, and backing

Take your quilt to the next level with this Technique Class!

Join award-winning, self-taught quilter, fiber artist, and author Joyce Hughes as she guides you on a journey to create a one-of-a-kind piece of art using your domestic sewing machine.

In this class 8 techniques will be covered and applied to a beautiful panel. You will learn step by step basic instruction for:
1) Free Motion Quilting
2) Dimensional Thread Paining
3) Trapunto
4) Multiple Overlays Application
5) Various 3-D Layering
6) Bobbin Work
7) Blocking and Squaring a Quilt
8) Crystal Application

More importantly, you will learn the proper steps of creating these numerous techniques, why, and when to apply them to a quilt. You will see the effects of various supplies, and how they can create added interest of texture and dimension to a piece of art - your piece of art!

1:00 - 4:00pm: Friends Forever and Bonus Quilt with Corey Yoder
Cost: $45 plus book and fabric

Come join Moda Fabric designer and author, Corey Yoder, and learn how to make Friends Forever blocks from her brand, new book, “Oh, Happy Day!”.  In this 3-hour class, Corey will walk you through making the blocks featured in the Friends Forever quilt.  The unique construction of the main quilt block makes this project a two for one.  For each main block completed, a secondary block is also made.

This is a beginner-friendly class.  Construction methods discussed in this class will be simple piecing including half-square-triangles.

When you make the Friends Forever quilt, you'll end up with two completed quilt tops without having to purchase additional print or background fabric. This is there quilt version of those Best Friend Necklaces from elementary school, where you wore one half and your BFF wore the other! These quilts are made using fat quarters, but could be made from yardage or scraps - just cut the correct unit sizes and you'll be set to sew!

These blocks looks great when made into a pillow and the instructions are included in the book.

9:00 - 12:00pm: Folded Cutwork Applique Technique Class - Friday - with Audra Rasnake
Cost: $45

Award-winning quilter Audra Rasnake will teach the basics of needle turn applique. As the name implies. the needle turn method involves using the shaft and the point of the needle to turn under the raw edges of fabric as it is stitched down onto a background. We will be using a technique called "folded cutwork" to create our applique pattern. This is basically folding freezer paper (think of making paper snowflakes as a child) and using the cutout design as our applique. Audra prefers to teach this method to beginners of applique because it is a project that will take several hours to finish and will give you lots of practice on the four elements of needle turn: inside curves, outside curves, inside points, and outside points. You will get started on the block in class and then take it home to complete after some practice time.

9:00 - 12:30pm: Embroidered Greeting Card Making Class 101 - Friday - with Carol Sciarini
Cost: $60 (includes kit)

Have you ever spent hours trying to find just the right card for a friend or relative? We now have the solution - Embroidery Card Making 101!

Join Carol Sciarini as she guides you through Donna Raufff's techniques and teaches you how to create beautiful, one-of-a-kind personalized cards on an embroidery machine. You will make one card in class, using the kit provided. After that, you'll be ready to pick the perfect designs for each recipient and add the perfect sentiment to make your card giving extra special.

1:00 - 4:00pm: English Paper Piecing Technique Class - Friday - with Audra Rasnake
Cost: $45

Award-winning quilter Audra Rasnake, will teach you the basics of English Paper Piecing, sometimes referred to as EPP.

This technique uses the method of folding fabric around paper shapes and basting them in place until the shapes are sewn together using the traditional whipstitch. We will practice doing several shapes that will include straight edges, curves, and some with very sharp points. Students will learn the various ways that EPP can be incorporated to create large and small projects and discover how this method can be very helpful with quilt patterns that are more difficult to construct using a traditional approach to piecing. EPP is not just for Grandmother's Flower Garden! Audra's hope is that some of you will either remember an old attempt at a quilt block that failed miserably and take another try at it or that you will tackle a block that you had once considered too hard...EPP is GREAT for tricky patterns and for creating new ones!

1:00 - 4:00pm: Embroidered Greeting Card Making - Organza Class with Carol Sciarini
Cost: $60 (includes kit)

Now that you've mastered the basic card making skills, it's time to add some elegance to create spectacular cards!

Carol Sciarini will teach you Donna Rauff's technique of adding organza to your cards to make them sparkle. You will also learn how to choose designs that have smaller thread counts and are delicate in appearance to create the perfect card for your family and friends.  

Class Prerequisite: Embroidered Card Making 101 (taken at the Ohio's Amish Country Quilt Festival or Chestnut Ridge Sewing)

4:30pm: Corey Yoder - Trunk Show
Cost: $15

It all begins with fabric, doesn’t it? Corey married her husband Ryan in 1997 and shortly thereafter, her love affair with fabric began. She started purchasing fabric before she knew how to sew or had even touched a sewing machine.  Realizing she needed an outlet for her growing fabric stash, she began making quilts – a natural choice as both her Mom and Dad’s sides of the family included many quilt makers.  She found that she loved the process.

When Corey’s oldest daughter Chloe was born in 2005, her attention moved to clothing design and led to her building a business – Little Miss Shabby – which focused on appliquéd children’s clothing. After several years designing and selling her creations, her family grew with the birth of her daughter Elonie in 2009.  That’s when Corey began focusing on quilts, specifically on designing and creating her own original quilts.

Saturday, September 10, 2022

2022 Saturday Classes and Trunk Shows

9:00 - 12:00pm: Hand Quilting with Amy Miller
Cost: $45 plus supplies (Class fee will include a fabric and batting sandwich as well as instructions on how to turn your practice piece into a pillow)

Discover the rhythm and relaxation that comes with hand quilting with Amy Miller and her Friends.

In this class, you will learn about choosing quilting designs, various marking tools available, as well as about which needles and thread to use. This class will include step by step instructions and lots of tips to help students begin or perfect their hand quilting technique. Quilters of all types and skill levels are encouraged and welcome to take this class.

9:00 - 12:00pm: Fabric Dyeing with Salt with Ellen Keets
Cost: $50 plus supplies includes fabric bundle, paint, various types of salt, and other items needed to create your own one-of-a kind fabric

Salt may not be good for your health, but it great when dyeing your own fabric!

Join Ellen Keets as she guides you through the process of dyeing fabric by using different types of salt to create beautiful, one-of-a-kind fabric that can be used in quilt making, garment construction, art quilts and so much more.

The class fee includes a kit containing fabric, paint, and a variety of salt samples.  (See supply list for full kit description and what you will need to provide.)

1:00pm: My Journey Into Quilting with Joyce Hughes - Trunk Show
Cost: $15

"My Journey into Quilting"... is a very open and inspiring talk about how Joyce started in quilting, leading into Art Quilts with Thread Painting, and finishing with ideas to use with Panels as Art Quilts.

Join the many people who leave this lecture very excited to try something new with their quilting. Joyce's main subject matter will be working with fabric panels, showing many Before and After Art Quilts, and exploring how panels can be used for your personal projects. Many panels are looked at and passed over with people questioning, "What do you do with this? It's so big, the colors are full, etc." With a little embellishment and/or thread painting, it soon becomes a piece of art!

Learn about the preparation of the panel for a project, the freedom of using thread painting, and showing that layering thread lets you achieve different effects of the quilts. Then add embellishments of ribbon, markers, paint, crystals, etc. to create a panel that is now unique and one-of-a-kind!

10:00am: Quilt Blocking with Audra Rasnake
Cost: $15

Award-winning quilter Audra Rasnake will teach the basics of blocking your quilts.

Join Audra as she guides you through the process of blocking a quilt so it lays flat and is perfectly square. Whether you create quilts for competition or personal enjoyment, learning this technique will greatly enhance the overall quality of your quilts.

11:00am: Old Fashion Antique Quilt Bed-Turning FREE Event
Cost: FREE

Bed Turning Entry Form

If you love antique quilts, you won't want to miss this FREE old-fashioned bed-turning presentation!

For those that aren’t familiar with the term “bed turning,” they are the precursor to our modern “show and tell” programs at quilt guild meetings. Back in those days, women did not have many occasions to get together socially, and when they did it was usually at someone’s home. They would each bring a quilt to share, and since space was limited, they would lay them all out on a bed, stacked one on top of the other. Each woman would take a turn and her quilt would be held up for everyone to see and exclaim over while she told the story of the quilt.

During this FREE event, you will enjoy a variety of quilts, many of which have been handed down for generations and are part of the heritage of that family. In some other cases, the history of the quilt is unknown' while in others it it well documented. Some of these quilt have been found in dumpsters and, once cleaned up, are now treasured by their new owners.

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Date: August 8 - 10, 2022

Location: Mt. Hope Event Center, 8076 State Route 241
Millersburg, OH 44654.

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