The Lowell Quilt Festival, the annual city-wide spectacular celebration of quilts, offers a visual feast of color and creativity to visitors of Lowell, Massachusetts! From small to large, traditional to contemporary, hand-work to machine-work, simple to spectacular, the Lowell Quilt Festival quilts are a must-see for all who enjoy and appreciate the work of highly talented and expert artisans.
This year's festival will be held August 6–9, 2009 and will feature:

• The juried Images quilt show, featuring over 300 quilts, with cash prizes in several categories.
• An exhibit of antique quilts discovered by the Massachusetts Documentation Project
• Several additional specially selected exhibits for the festival.
• Exhibits of youth quilts and community quilts
• Classes and lectures by nationally acclaimed teachers.
• Auctions of quilts and quilt-related items.
• Quilt appraisals
• Over 40 vendors of quilting supplies from New England and beyond.

Many of Lowell's cultural organizations will hold quilt-related events during the festival; please see the Partner Events page.

Award-winning quilts from LQF 2008

Wrought Iron Roses by Linda Roy Best of Show	Lea's Choice by Joanie Zeier Poole Best machine Quilting and Viewers Choice	Big Bang, the Birth of Color Out of the Darkness (detail) by Nancy Messier Best use of Color
Autumn Returns by Gladi Porsche First Place, Large Traditional	Patches of Rainbows by Barbara Clem Second Place, Large Traditional and Best Hand Quilting	My Very best Favorite Quilt by Janet-Lee Santeusanio Third Place, Large Traditional
Three Kingdoms by Sandy Pennas First Place, Large Non-traditional	Farm Alarm by Sue Turnquist Second Place, Large Non-traditional	Six Degrees of Separation by Laura Fogg Third Place, Large Non-traditional
Lime Lace by Diana Reinhardt First Place, Small Traditional and Judge's Choice, Holice Turnbow	Blue and Yellow China by Linda Engelbrecht Second Place, Small Traditional	Grandma in My Garden by Lynette Harlan Third Place, Small Traditional
Leaves That Are Green by Diane Evans First Place, Small Non-traditional	Morning Market by Susan Polansky Second Place, Small Non-traditional	Pinwheels and Whirligigs by Sue Turnquist Judge's Choice, Beverly Fine
Praise for the Morning by Betsey Abbott Third Place, Small Non-traditional
Declaration of Freedom by Toni Paisley First Place, Youth	Quilt by Hannah O'Connor Second Place, Youth	Quilt by Sarah O'Connor Third Place, Youth