Quiltcon 2026

Quiltcon - the modern quilt show - is this weekend in Raleigh, NC.  My husband and I attended on the first day.  Here are a few photos of the meticulously made, imaginative and inspiring quilts we saw:

A close up of a favorite showing the beautiful quilting.

Hundreds of hexagons were handsewn by the quilter while she was out of power and water after Hurricane Helene.

This was 'open to interpretation.'  My husband said it looked like a heart.

This was probably the most my style of what I saw.

"I Scream" was my husband's favorite. It had beautiful quilting to make the swirls of the ice cream.

Another closeup of fantastic quilting in addition to the interesting design and piecing.

There were hundreds of quilts so I can only share a few.  This was the first national quilt show I have attended. Two years ago in Raleigh, they had over 25,000 attendees for the 4 day show!  I don't know how many people were there Thursday but it was very busy especially the vendor area. You could hardly walk.  I go to see quilts, not to shop, which is a good thing.

I'm glad we went. I'm not sure I would drive that far again unless we had some other activity in Raleigh we especially wanted to do.  Modern quilts are interesting and I always think I want to do more in this area but currently it isn't as much my focus.  Perhaps though I will be inspired by what I saw this week.

Thanks for stopping by!