Road to California recently announced it will bring a version of its event to the East Coast next summer. This event will be held at the Richmond Convention Center in Richmond, VA in late June 2025. RTC is a quilt show that offers classes with national instructors and plenty of shopportunity. Attending a Road to California event is on my retirement quilty bucket list; however, the January event date hasn’t worked since retiring two years ago. It will be so awesome to have it close enough to drive with friends rather than having to fly!
Wonder if QuiltCon’s success in Raleigh earlier this year made other event organizers decide to take a look at heading east? Who knows? ICYMI, QuiltCon will be returning to Raleigh, NC in February, 2026. I was so hoping for a beach location! Fortunately, there are other quilting events that usually take place at the beach around the same time. 🙂
My sewing machine is packed and ready to travel!
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Ooo, good to know about Road to California coming to Richmond! I may just add that to my quilty trips for next year. What other ‘quilting events’ occur at the beach in February??
AQS has a show in Daytona Beach usually the same week as QuiltCon.
Several of the guilds in SW Florida (Tampa down to Naples) have events in February. In the past, The Modern Sewist in Sarasota has hosted a weekend retreat with a national teacher.
March – April is the Florida Shop Hop. Some guilds in the Panhandle (Pensacola over toward Panama City) also host spring quilt shows during that time.
COVID really did a number on some of the more established shows like the Vermont Quilt Festival, which closed completely down. Shipshewana Quilt Festival closed in late 2022, but another group appears to be bringing it back in some form.