Thank you to our wonderful 2025 sponsors and host. They provide all the logistical support, prizes, and more for our many participants and winners.
Learn more about the prizes here: www.LQSContest.com/rules.
HOST
ByAnnie.com
At ByAnnie.com, sharing with other quilters and sewists is one of our greatest joys.
Our patterns, videos and products are easy to use and follow, yield beautiful professional results, and bring vibrant color options to the creative process.
Are you ready to sew with ByAnnie?
Sponsors
Jaftex Corporation
Jaftex Corporation, a fourth generation, family-owned textile company based in New York holds a portfolio of the top fabric brands in the quilting industry.
Each fabric company operates independently and maintains its unique character while being supported by the overall Jaftex organization. #wemakefabricfun
Follow them and be inspired:
Blank Quilting — www.blankquilting.com
FreeSpirit — www.freespiritfabrics.com
Henry Glass — www.henryglassfabrics.com
StudioE — www.studioefabrics.com
h+h americas
h+h americas is an all-inclusive industry event uniting all types of handicrafts. With a focus on B2B, the event is open to anyone who makes a living in fiber arts, no matter what background or industry sector.
h+h americas takes place every spring in the Chicagoland area.
Become part of h+h americas by exhibiting, taking classes, sourcing for new products or participating in our event program. Mark our show dates which are May 7 – 9, 2025 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention & Conference Center in Rosemont. We look forward to seeing you there!
Schmetz Needles
Offering a full range of SCHMETZ Home Sewing, Industrial Needles and Sewing Notions to the sewing enthusiast, SCHMETZ Needles is internationally known as the finest sewing machine needle manufacturer in the world. SCHMETZ offers a choice of high quality sewing machine needles that can result in high quality, smooth, even stitches in your work. With SCHMETZ, you have options!
Erie Quilt Art
At Erie Quilt Art, we are dedicated to providing the best in quilting supplies for Canadian Quilt Shops and Machine Quilting businesses and strive to offer the very best customer service to help you make your quilting businesses successful. Quilting is our passion and it is our goal to make the time our customers spend quilting enjoyable and fun; therefore we choose products that are innovative, have a strong artistic flare and simplify the process.
HQW Distributors
Founded by Lynne and Peter Wilson, HQW Distributors is your Australian wholesale suppliers of quilting and sewing products.
Lynne and Peter have been in the industry for years and have done it all. They understand the needs and challenges and are there to help you sell.
XLN Fabrics
XLN is a fabric importer and distributor to creative Australian independent retail and manufacturing businesses.
Sourcing from premier American cotton fabric converters XLN’s fabrics will inspire your creativity.
Hantex Distributors
For over 25 years, Hantex has been at the forefront of creative sewing, launching a stream of new products and brands on an almost weekly basis. We work with press, designers and manufacturers to ensure that the products we distribute are contemporary, on trend and have as low an environmental impact as possible.
Craft Industry Alliance
Craft Industry Alliance is committed to fostering a community that reflects the rich history and cultures of craft and the diversity of crafters. Our goal is to continuously evolve and to proactively create an organization that seeks to represent and recognize this diversity.
Shop Hop Inc
An innovative company and movement in our industry, Shop Hop Inc organizes massive shop hop events across the USA and provide amazing marketing, prizes and support to the whole process.
By participating as a store, sponsor, or shopper, you are supporting the textile arts — and having some amazing adventures along the way.
I work at Paradise Quilting in Concord NH. We have a LOT of by Annie’s products and patterns and regularly have classes. We have used her trunk show (last year) and developed our own smaller version. Why isn’t it listed as a NE shop?
Hi Susan, the Northeast USA Category features all the blogs we have written for stores in the Northeast. Because we have a smaller team, we unfortunately don’t have time to write blogs on every local quilt shop, so we’ve focused our efforts on writing blogs about shops that have won the Grand or Regional Prize in the LQS Contest. Because of this, the Northeast Category is not a list of all the stores in the NE region, but a way for readers to discover what stores have won the LQS Contest in their area. We do make sure all verified local quilt shops are visible on our map, including Paradise Quilting.