The 25th annual Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival (MAQF), the largest quilt event on the Eastern Seaboard, will be held February 27 - March 2, 2014, in Hampton, Virginia. Exhibits will include entries to the annual Quilt and Wearable Arts Competitions showcasing regional, national, and international artists. The event also features 27 teachers offering dozens of classes as well as 150 vendors, and demonstrations on the exhibit floor of traditional rug hooking, beading, spinning and weaving, and quilting.



Quilt entries compete in Traditional, Innovative and Wall Quilt Categories as well as for the "Best of Show" title, with over $17,500 in prizes. Event attendees can participate by voting in the Viewers Choice Awards - if they are able to choose one they like best!



Images shown here of quilts from the 2013 MAQF show offer a "patchwork" look at the exciting kind of artwork which event-goers can expect to see in the upcoming show. The 2014 show will feature over 500 quilts and garments.



As quilts evolve into greater acceptance as a fine art medium, more and more pictorial quilts are featuring the human figure, showing the combination of traditional art skills with textile techniques.







Windblown by Maria Elkins.

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The Peaceful Ones by Denise Tallon Havlan

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Human Beauty, by Sandy Curran

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Carousel Stampede by Cathy Wiggins

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Carousel Stampede, detail. Cathy Wiggins, Macon NC.

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Backyard Entertainers by Barbara Barrick McKie

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Detail of U.S. History, Boston Terrior Style by Linda Cantrell

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Detail of U.S. History, Boston Terrior style by Linda Cantrell

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Landscapes and florals continue to be favorite quilt themes.







In the Bleak Mid-Winter by Donna Clauer Stufft

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Town By the River, by Sally Rowe

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Bloom Where You are Planted (detail) by Nancy Stanton

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Fiesta Mexico by Renae Haddadin & Karen Kay Buckley

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Robbi Joy Eklow of Third Lake, IL, contributed "Spirals" (40" x 60".)







Lifelines III by Ricky Tims

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The Garden of Huipil by Judy Loope (right) and the huipil inspiration (left)

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It Takes a Village by Gwen Goepel (right) and the huipil inspiration.

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Flaunt Your Wildside (Reversable Cape) by Jennifer Bernard

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No Place Like Om by Meryl Ann Butler

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