North Carolina Quilt Symposium

The Durham Orange Quilter's Guild is hosting the North Carolina Quilt Symposium at Peace University this year.  Symposium is a ton of fun; there are classes and lectures, a gorgeous raffle quilt, a silent auction, and of course, a quilt show and vendor mall!! All registrants get a tote bag filled with goodies and a 2017 Symposium tee shirt.  The entire event is held at Peace University, an enchanting venue located in Raleigh right across from the Seaboard Station.  It is the perfect place to spark your creativity and make new friends.  This is going to be a lovely event that we hope you will attend. 

Registration for the event is now open and all registrants are able to enter quilts into the Symposium Quilt Show.  The quilt registration deadline is nearing (March 15th) and we hope you will enter one of your beautiful quilts!  Note:  Quilts DO NOT need to be finished by this deadline, but underway enough to submit a picture.

Symposium Registration Form

Online Registration Form             Print Registration Form 

*More Information From the DOQ website:

Symposium will be held on May 18th to 21st at William Peace University in Raleigh, NC. William Peace University is an ideal location! The campus is compact and easy to navigate. Moving in is easy, and getting to your classes, the quilt show, the vendor mall, meals, and evening activities, a breeze.

Building friendships is one of our goals. At Symposium, you get to know other quilters from your own guild, other guilds, and even other states. Many quilters return to Symposium every year to renew these friendships. One group even has Symposium as their annual reunion! Why not ask a few friends to join you? Half the fun is the laughs you will share as you purchase “one more piece of fabric you NEED” or share what you learned that day in class.We have arranged a faculty of excellent teachers who have a wide variety of techniques to share.

Symposium is a great opportunity to try new things or to work on techniques to improve your skills. You will want to carefully review all the offerings and make your choices early to ensure a spot in the classes of your choice. A full-time student can take 12 hours of classes and a lecture. A class will be either 3 hours or 6 hours and a lecture is about 1 hour in length. Selecting and attending classes is the “building skills” part of our theme.

We will have a wonderful quilt show of quilts by Symposium registrants. We hope that everyone who registers will enter a quilt in the show. In addition, we will have a Silent Auction of small quilts to benefit a charity and these small quilts are amazing! Let us know if you plan to provide a small quilt so we can allot enough space to display them all. We also will be collecting blocks (red, white and blue) for Quilts of Valor and there will be a viewer’s choice award from these submissions.

Symposium Registration Form

Quilt Registration

To enter a quilt or quilts in the show, you must be registered for NC Quilt Symposium.  You do not have to attend the entire weekend.  Minimum registration is one lecture.

Online Registration Form             Print Registration Form  

Dates to Remember

Jan 21 – Earliest postmark allowed for Symposium registration.
March 15 – Quilt show entry forms due.
May 13 – Quilt take-in at Bernina World of Sewing in Raleigh.
May 14 – Latest date for a mailed or shipped quilt to arrive.
May 18 – Symposium Registration, Quilt Show, and Vendor Mall open at 1 pm.

Classes and Lectures

Symposium begins Thursday afternoon, May 18th and continues until Sunday, May 21st at lunchtime. Classes and lectures begin Friday, May 19th.  Please see the schedule and class description links below for more information.

Class Schedule                    Class Descriptions

Raffle Quilt

This gorgeous raffle quilt was made by Evelyn Judson and quilted by Singing Stitches Quilting Studio.  Raffle tickets are $1 each or $5 for six. You do not need to be present to win.  We will have plenty of tickets at the studio, so pick up a few next time you're here.  The drawing for the quilt will take place on June 19, 2017

Quilts of Valor Block Challenge

Our local Quilts of Valor bee invites you to donate a 12-inch finished size block in red, white, and blue colors. The bee will use the submitted blocks to create Quilts of Valor for military veterans and wounded soldiers. All the submissions will be displayed and there will be a Viewer’s Choice award. Please turn in your block at registration and thank you in advance for helping with the cause.

Quilt Show and Vendor Mall Hours

Thursday May 18th : 1 pm-5 pm
Friday and Saturday, May 19th and 20th : 9 am-6 pm.