Scenes from 2007 Paducah AQS Annual Quilt Show & Contest . . .

From the "Rhapsody Quilts" Lecture by Ricky Tims

The 2007 Paducah Quilt Show of the American Quilter Society had four days of beautiful weather and brought approximately 40,000 people to town for the show. A local TV station reported the AQS show brings 18 million dollars to the Paducah regional economy.

Over (1500) fifteen hundred quilts are entered in 16 categories!

< < < All the quilts are on display in the show rooms

< < < Quilts, quilts and more quilts, including the winners, which are displayed in a separate area (below).

Over 300 hundred quilting supply vendors are sprinkled in several areas throughout the convention center.

< < < Vendor booths and more vendor booths.

< < < Jo took one of the 135 quilting classes offered during the quilt show and convention: Introduction to Machine Quilting, with Phillipa Naylor.