The Pigeon Forge Quiltfest
It’s officially the season of hot apple cider, warm blankets, and pumpkin patches. It’s also the season for fall festivals, and the Smoky Mountain area is full of them!
Here are three festivals you can enjoy while on your Smoky Mountain vacation.
1. Dollywood Harvest Festival
If you love Dollywood and the fall season then you won’t want to miss this event! From early September to late October this annual celebration marks the best weather and some beautiful fall foliage in the Smokies. Stay late into the evening to see beautifully carved pumpkins, lit up and on display. During the day you’ll enjoy fall themed food, and colorful leaves all throughout the park.
2. Gatlinburg Craftsmen’s Fair
In early to mid October the Gatlinburg Craftsmen’s Fair heads into full swing. Artisans from across the country gather to peddle their wares while musicians serenade the crowds. You’ll see everything from woodworking and pottery to handcrafted jewelry and leatherworkings. If you have an appreciation for handmade goods then this event is for you.
3. Wears Valley Fall Festival
The Wears Valley Fall Festival takes place in mid October and is a favorite event for locals. Come experience the hundreds of vendors, melodic live music, and incredible Southern cuisine. If you’re interested in a true rustic, Appalachian festival with plenty to do and see for the whole family, then this one is for you.
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Would you believe one of the most popular events in the Smokies for the Spring season is a festival called... Quiltfest?
The initiated know quilting is serious business, just as practically every "quaint" art and craft has a surprise vein of popularity and intensity within its fanbase. It is a multi-billion dollar industry based on an extremely eye-catching, relaxing and generations-old trade that combines the practical (everyone needs blankets at some point to keep warm!) with a geometrically hypnotizing design scheme that allows for unique works of art and infinite color scheme and theme possibilities. They can also fetch and attract big money. If paintings and framed works of art, which you normally can't even keep on your lap for an extra bit of comfort and insulation on a cold night, can reach epic levels of interest, money, skill and competition, why not quilts?
That answer gets revealed each March in Pigeon Forge, as it has been for 24 years now. The Quiltfest is both a festival, as something open for the public to come and enjoy, and an expo where professionals also gather and attend for a variety of purposes. Everything quilting related is found here, giving the public thousands and thousands of awesome quilts to look at and enjoy, vendors who sell quilts and quilting supplies, competitions with thousands of dollars in prizes offered, quilting classes and more!
From the online brochure:
A Mountain Quiltfest has now found a permanent home in the prestigious LeConte Center at Pigeon Forge. This state-of-the-art event center provides over 232,000 square feet of exhibition and classroom space to house our quilt show, vendors, classrooms, lecture areas and even a dining area – all under one roof!
Quilt Show & Vendor Hall Hours
Tuesday, March 20th
8:30AM to 4:00PM - Classes begin.
Patchwork & Pickin with Yvonne Hollenbeck & Jean Prescott.
11:30AM to 1:30PM
Box lunch.
Show Opens to the Public:
Wednesday, March 21st - 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Thursday, March 22nd - 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Friday, March 23rd - 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Show & Tell - 6:00PM
Saturday, March 24th - 9:00AM to 4:00PM
For convenience, registration information is as follows:
Pre-registered students need to check-in with the Registration
Desk prior to the beginning of their first class. Pre-registered
students will, at this time, receive their A Mountain Quiltfest name
badge and 2018 thimble.
The Registration Desk will be open the following dates and times:
Monday, March 19th
3:00PM – 7:00PM
Tuesday, March 20th
7:00AM – 5:00PM
Wednesday, March 21st
7:30AM – 5:00PM
Thursday, March 22nd
7:30AM – 5:00PM
Friday, March 23rd
7:30AM – 5:00PM
Saturday, March 24th
7:30AM – 8:30AM
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