​40th annual smoky mountain quilt show & competition

Join us for our RUBY JUBILEE Celebration!
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Knoxville Expo Center 

• JULY 31 .......... 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• AUGUST 1.......... 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• More than $6,000 in Prize Money
• Quilt Turnings by Merikay Waldvogel ...... July 31,2020
• Trunk Shows & Lectures by Teddy Pruett ...... August 1, 2020
• Vendor Sales and Demonstrations
• Boutique Gift Shop by members of Smoky Mountain Quilters
• Quilt Appraisals by Cindy Stuart
• Quilt Scavenger Hunts for the young ones and the young-at-heart
• Admission: $7 Adults; Children under 12 are free; Veterans with ID $6; Two-day pass $10; Group admissions - Call 
• Free Parking

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES Tuesday, June 2, 2020

NOW ACCEPTING ENTRIES

RULES & CATEGORIES

ENTRY FORM

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Special Awards	Award Value	Ribbon
Best of Show - Large	$600	Yes
Best of Show - Small	$500	Yes
Excellence in Hand Workmanship	$100	Yes
Excellence in Machine Workmanship	$100	Yes
Innovative Design	$75	Yes
Judge's Choice	$75	Yes
Just for Fun	$75	Yes
Novice	$75	Yes
Scrap Quilt	$75	Yes
Surface Embellishment	$75	Yes
Surface Design	$75	Yes
Traditional Design	$75	Yes
Viewer's Choice	--	Yes
Junior	Gift Card	Yes

Place Awards	Award Value	Ribbon
First Place	$150	Yes
Second Place	$115	Yes
Third Place	$85	Yes
Honorable Mention	--	Yes

sponsorship information

Interested in being a sponsor? Smoky Mountain Quilters is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Donations are tax-deductible under IRC section 170. A click of the buttons below will provide you with the forms necessary to process your sponsorships.

Sponsorship Contract

Sponsorship Form

advertising

 Advertising opportunities are available in our quilt show catalog. For ad rates and insertion forms click the buttons below.

Ad & Sponsorship Invoice

Ad Rates

Ad Insertion Order - General

Ad Insertion Order - Vendor

Vendor information

Vendor Paperwork

2019 Special award winners   

Click for complete Winners list

Click on the ribbon to see the name of the winner of that special award.

Entries by category

the 2019 Recipient of the viewers' Choice award

Andrew Lee stands in front of his quilt, "Shock and Awe," after receiving the Viewer's Choice award near the close of the 39th Annual Smoky Mountain Quilters Quilt Show and Competition, August 3, 2019. Andrew's quilt is made of 12,000 1-inch squares depicting the World War II image of U.S. Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima.

Andrew, a U.S. Army Veteran and current member of the National Guard, served two tours of duty in Iraq. He relies upon quilting to soften the effects of PTSD and to spend more time with his wife when he isn't on the road as a truck driver. However, much of this 110" x 110" quilt was stitched in the truck he has equipped with a sewing machine and mini studio. He finds quilting relaxing and uses this activity to wind down after long hours on the road. 

When he is not creating his own quilts, Andrew can be found making Quilts of Valor to present to other veterans. It is rumored that he is already planning another quilt much like "Shock and Awe," and it will be even larger. We are proud to have Andrew as a fellow member of Smoky Mountain Quilters of Tennessee.

Talented SMQ members make the Special Awards ribbons each year. It's not surprising they are proudly displayed by the winners.

SMQ quilt show history

​Smoky Mountain Quilters was founded in 1980 as a chapter of the Tennessee Valley Quilters' Association. The inaugural SMQ quilt show was held in 1981 at the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Judy Elwood, the first SMQ show chairman, and three other enthusiastic members, Suzanne Haase, Janice Sanders, and Glenys Nappo, were extremely instrumental in planning this event. None of them had previous show experience! 

The first show featured 169 entries and eighteen antique quilts for display. Categories included bed quilts, wall quilts, crib quilts, pillows and cathedral window items. Entries were sent from across the state, and a few other states were represented as well. The quilt show was well received and became an anticipated event at the museum through 1990, when an invitational show featured previous ribbon winners from earlier competitions. 

The invitational show format was chosen because SMQ members were absorbed in planning the production of the 21st Annual National Quilting Association Quilt Show in Knoxville. One might say that 10 years of preparation went into this show! Judy Elwood, that first show chairman in 1981 was President of the National Quilting Association in 1990.

The following year, after much evaluation, discussion, and soul-searching, members moved the Smoky Mountain show to Knoxville. For several years it partnered with the Dogwood Arts Festival, and TVA's West Tower in downtown Knoxville became the show venue. The quilt show has utilized a variety of venues in both Knox and Blount counties, and has most recently found the Knoxville Expo Center site to offer the most accommodating answers to our needs. 

entries GALLERY: 2018 smoky mountain quilt show & competition

Apple Health Care

​Dennis and Doyleen Taylor

​Tone Haugen-Cogburn

​​Sandy and Bill Kambic

​Nancy Watson:
In Memory of Grandma Jack Griffith

Tuesday Bee

Tuesday Night Bee

​Thursday Bee

we truly appreciate the generosity of our sponsors

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Chick-fil-a (Crown Point Plaza)

Haynes Proposal Management

Kebra Wolfe

Leslie Hinson

Lynn Sykes

Marian Sykes

Merikay Waldvogel

Morgan and Deanna West

Nora Wagner

Bygone Quilts - Cindy Stuart

SMQ Over the Hill Gang

Peggy Garwood

Penrose Farm

Sally Sante: In Tribute to Essie Bruner