June 20, 2012 starts this year’s Shipshewana Quilt Festival.

This year’s festival  is going to be an interesting one as the main attraction is Ricky Tims. He is the featured speaker for this event and he is known in the international world of quilting as an enthusiastic and encouraging teacher, an award-winning quilter and a talented and spellbinding speaker.   His innovative and entertaining presentations feature live music and humor combined with scholarly insights. His quilts have been displayed worldwide and are highly regarded as excellent examples of contemporary quilts with traditional appeal.

Ricky’s show on June 20, “A Quilter and His Music” has already sold out but it looks like a second show has been added on June 21st. Hurry and get yourself registered and get your tickets for his show before they are all gone!  To find out more about the workshops he will be teaching and the time and dates of his concerts at  the Quilt Festival.  It looks like this year they are continuing the tradition of the Shop Hop, Quilter’s Schoolhouse, Quilt & Vendor Show as well as :

The 38th Annual Topeka Quilt Sale  June 18-21, 2012  Mon-Thurs  9am-5pm and June 22, 2012 Fri 9am-12pm.

Quilt Gardens  Along the Heritage Trail daily from Memorial Day thru Qctober 1, 2012 which is a self-guided tour that will take you through 19 gardens of over 100,000 blooms and 18 quilt murals in seven towns along the Heritage trail.

Book Signings by Ricky Tims and Darlene Zimmerman at Yoders

Check out the Country Victorian Bed & Breakfast Quilt Garden Package  if you plan to be in the area for the Shipshewana Quilt Festival! We’ve got a great deal for you!