Have your friends been telling you that you should enter your quilt(s) in some contests. Here is your last chance this year to enter an AQS Quilt Contest. More than $44,000 in cash awards will be given in this year’s quilt contest. The Best of Show winner will receive $10,000!

The deadline for entering the AQS Quilt Contest in Des Moines, Iowa, is June 11, 2012.

Click here to view or print the rules.

If you have any questions about the rules or entering the contest, contact Andrea Fowler at andreafowler@AQSquilt.com or call her at 270-898-7903, ext. 174.

The Des Moines AQS Quilt Show will be held October 3 – 6, 2012, at the Iowa Events Center. We will be using all new classrooms this year for our workshops and lectures.

Registration for Des Moines will be available soon. We’ll post on this blog as soon as it is available. Here is a sneak peak of the teachers for the Des Moines show — Terry Atkinson, Debbie Caffrey, Susan K. Cleveland, Diane Gaudynski, Ann Holmes, Karen Linduska, Norah McMeeking,  Marsha Radtke,  Sandra Leichner, Dianne Springer, and Laura Wasilowski. Wow, what a great group of teachers and classes!