"It's a scrappy world after all"
October 7-11, 2025
Davis Conference Center
Featured Teachers
Cindy Seitz-Krug I started quilting in 1992 when my mom signed me up for a quilting class at the community college in Ventura, California. After making that first quilt, I was immediately hooked on quilting.
I consider myself a traditional quilter, but I really like innovative quilts which take traditional patterns and enhance them. I think my strongest quilting asset is my machine quilting. From the moment I start planning a quilt, I start planning the quilting. Making the quilt even more beautiful through quilting is the part I enjoy most. I quilt all of my quilts on a Bernina 440 QE.
I have won many awards for my quilts in regional, national and international quilt shows, including various AQS shows, the Houston International Quilt Festival, the Pacific International Quilt Festival, Road to California, the NQA Show, the Best of the Valley Quilt Show, the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Quilt Odyssey, MQX East, HMQS, MQS, and of course in my home town of Bakersfield, the Cotton Patch Quilter's Quilt Show. My biggest achievement to date has been winning Best of Show at the Lancaster AQS Show for my quilt, “Simply Santa Fe”. I've also won the “Best Machine Quilting” award two years in a row at the AQS shows in Tennessee.
Aside from my quilting life, I enjoy spending time with my husband Rich, and our two children; daughter Caitlyn and son Cameron. Our family loves to spend time in the mountains and deserts of the Western United States hunting and fishing.
You'll have an opportunity to explore Amazing quilting on your domestic sewing machines.
ATTEND QUILT FEST
Plan your day at the show,or just let fate take you where it will-all the info you need is here.
SUBMIT YOUR QUILT
Be part of our beautiful quilt show - submit your quilt in our quilt show on display during Quilt Fest. This year we will have eight levels within the adult competitions for the categories as listed above. We will also have a Group (3 or more) and 1 Youth Quilt Category – 18 years and younger. The first 100 quilters submitting quilts for the challenge or quilt show will receive a gift.
BECOME A VENDOR
Join other shops and sell your products during Quilt Fest.
1000 Scraps Charm Quilt Challenge
- 1000 different fabrics
- Cannot repeat a fabric at all!!! If you do, it is NO longer a charm quilt.
- The 1000 different fabrics include the binding, back, label, and borders. Each cut of fabric is a piece.
The main goal of a charm quilt is never to repeat a fabric. Those of us who have been collecting fabrics for a long time can achieve this goal within our own quilt cupboards. For beginning quilters, collecting the large number of fabrics may seem challenging, but you are in for a real treat. Collecting and trading for charm squares is fun, interactive, and a great chance for making new friends.
These quilts have lives of their own! Charm quilting is not an exact science. No matter how well you plan, it is impossible to know just how much of one color or another you will need. When collecting fabrics, relax and enjoy the process. Try not to get too bogged down in decision-making. I just cut my 2” x 3 ½” squares and sewed them together… scrap is very liberating and FUN!!!
Making Charm Quilts was a Victorian phenomenon. Charm Quilt makers borrowed the idea from button collectors. Stella Rubin speculated in her book How to Compare and Value American Quilts that the charm quilt was linked to the 1850-1870 fad of collecting one each of numerous types of buttons. Young women would thread the buttons onto a string in hopes that their Prince Charming would arrive when they had collected 999 buttons and provide the 1000th button from his coat. In the lore associated with charm quilts, each quilt should contain 999 pieces—a feat rarely achieved. (Speaking from experience, I became so obsessed with cutting my charms and counting my charms, and cutting my charms and counting my charms, dreaming about cutting my charms and counting my charms, that I basically was Crazy… I have 1000 cut (four times—one for each child) and I can’t wait to start sewing them). Whether charm quilts actually took their name and concept from the charm string of buttons is uncertain, but they became popular following that fad in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
I have my Great Grandmother’s string of buttons that I have always cherished, and I guess that is why I want a Charm Quilt to match.
Some of the most popular charm shapes are hexagon, pyramids, clamshell, baby blocks, kite, apple core, square, rectangles, etc. Here are a few examples with the number of shapes to make a Charm Quilt.
Have fun in the experience—Our grandmothers endeavored to make these quilts with no two pieces alike—that’s where the charm lies.
—Needlework editor Emma S. Tyrell in a 1929 issue of Wallace’s Farmer
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Quilt Fest 2025 Layton, UT
Quilt Fest will take place at the Davis Conference Center.
The Davis Conference Center is located Layton at 1651 N 700 W, Layton, UT 84041
