Name: Paducah Quilt Festival
Start: 2025-04-23T07:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-28T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Paducah Kentucky

AQS Quilt Week – Paducah! Paducah transforms to Quilt City USA® each spring when 30,000 international and domestic quilters attend AQS Quilt Week™ – Paducah. Visitors from every continent and every corner of the United States come together to celebrate the most exquisite quilts being created today. Workshops taught by quilting masters at the AQS School of Quiltmaking focus on color, design, embroidery, embellishment, software and technology. Lectures and a full line-up of special events honor innovation and talented artists in the quilt world. A Merchant Mall features 400 vendor booths demonstrating the latest tools and technology available to the modern quilter. Paducah embraces QuiltWeek™ with quilt-related community and AQS-sanctioned events throughout the city, window displays and church dinners. Celebrate the depth of the fiber art experience with the Rotary Antique Quilt Show, Fantastic Fibers at Yeiser Art Center, African American Underground Railroad Quilts at the Hotel Metropolitan, Eleanor Burns’ Quilt in a Day and so much more.
Paducah’s history in quilts and quiltmaking is rich and deep. As a folk art, Kentucky’s quiltmaking has been preserved and passed on primarily through community traditions. Over the last quarter of a century, folk art and “domestic arts” have evolved into hip art expressions and the quilt has been reborn as a vibrant, provocative collectible. Paducah embraces this broad spectrum of quiltmaking by preserving time-honored traditional designs and methods while simultaneously acknowledging and encouraging the art quilt movement.
Flowing with creativity and inspiration, Paducah resembles a quilt in many ways. The vibrant rivertown is a patchwork of quilt and fabric shops – including Hancock’s of Paducah and an array of others offering the latest in equipment and embellishments that take your creations to the next level. Many of quilting’s brightest stars offer hands-on fiber art experiences in both Lower Town and Historic Downtown. Exciting workshops are taught by some of quilting’s most celebrated artists at the National Quilt Museum year round. Join Maple Leaf Tours for this once in a lifetime tour to the Paducah Quilt Festival!