39th annual smoky mountain
​quilt show & competition

Entries are now closed for the 2019 Quilt Show. Check back with us for information about the 2020 Quilt Show -- our FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY QUILT SHOW!!

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2019 Special award winners   

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.

QUILT SHOW VENDORS – 2019

Accomplish Quilting -- accomplishquilting.com
Anderson Sewing Machines -- No Website
​Angel Oak Stitchery -- angeloakstitchery.com
Best Edge Sharpening Services -- bestedgesharp@gmail.com
Cloth Peddler Quilt Shop -- clothpeddler.com
Deborah's Quilts -- QuiltersCuttingGuide.com
Dizzy Diva Quilt Shop -- dizzydivasfabricshop.com
Glowing Beauty -- dermalactives.com
Heart Creek Farm Creations --shop.heartcreekfarmcreations.com
Hyderhangout: Quilt Fabric & More -- hyderhangout.com 
Magic Cat -- (no website)
Martelli Enterprises -- martellinotions.com
Mountain Creek Quilt Shop -- mountaincreekquilters.com
Oh Sew Pretty -- No Website
Primrose Lane -- primroselane.com
Quiltricks -- quiltricks.com
Redfern Enterprises, Inc. -- redfernentus.com
Starforest Quilts -- starforestquilts.com
Sewing Machineas Etc. -- sewingmachinesetc.com
Stipples -- stipplesetc.com
Stitches 'n Stuff Quilt Shop -- stitchesnstuffshoppe.com
The Quilt Patch -- thequiltpatchblog.wordpress.com

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