Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show 2024

Shasta Lin
Shasta Lin
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Published 2024-07-15
There is no way I could get all of the amazing and beautiful quilts from this show in Sisters, Oregon. It was pretty warm this year, in the 90's. I noticed there was a lot more people selling water this year than in previous years which helped a lot.

Some history about the show:
We do that through a series of annual events, most notably the largest outdoor Quilt Show in the world held on the second Saturday of July.

The show began when founder, Jean Wells Keenan, hung a dozen quilts made by friends and family along with her own, outside her quilt shop on a Saturday in July. A few more ladies brought their quilts to show, then a few more and a few more. The show became an annual event, hosted by the East of the Cascades quilt guild. As the show gained in size and popularity it outgrew the resources of the guild. In 2003, an Executive Director was hired to manage the show and new events were added including the Around the Block Quilt Walk and Fiber Arts Stroll, Wish Upon a Card and other partnerships with community service groups.

Quilt Show began in 1975; Non-Profit was established in 2005

Attendance: ~10,500 on Quilt Show day

Staff: Executive Director; Part time office staff, and an army of Volunteers!

Economic Impact: $1.7 million and the equivalent of 26 jobs in the Sisters area*

Over 90,000 website hits/year at www.SOQS.org
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