BEAUMONT — Janice Stewart with Sew It Seams in Port Arthur has been sewing for years, but she didn’t take up quilting until 2015.

“I didn’t like it at the beginning. After I finished my first quilt I was kind of hooked. I was really hooked by my second quilt.”

Stewart was in good company with other quilt lovers at the “Color Your World” Golden Triangle Quilt Guild Quilt Show & Market this weekend at Ford Park in Beaumont.

For the first day, Friday, organizer Michelle Walker said they were having great attendance. This is the first time in 18 years they hosted the biennial event at Ford Park. Before, it was held at the Beaumont Civic Center, but they outgrew that space. The guild formed in the 1980s.

“We have over 400 quilts here,” she said. “In Dallas there’s about 200 to 300 quilts. We have 52 vendors with 87 vendor booths, which means some people have double spaces. It’s like a market with clothing, jewelry, home décor and wood crafting.”

They will also sell tickets to raffle off a quilt.

In addition to entries from the Golden Triangle, there are quilts from Southwest Louisiana, Jasper and Crosby.

Stewart said the quilt show always has different shops and everyone has different points of view.

Sew It Seams, likewise, holds sewing classes and a monthly quilting club meeting called Sit and Show. They said quilting is therapeutic.

Social media allows quilters to share online, and churches also host quilting meetings. Some give away their quilts to nonprofit organizations.

Stewart’s coworker, Linda Treme, said she grew up quilting. Her grandfather was a carpenter and he built her grandmother a quilting frame she made use of. Now everyone uses a quilting machine, Treme said.

Sew It Seams sells Brother sewing machines, quality fabrics and metallic threads and quilt kits. They even host a kid’s sewing camp in the summer.

Stewart said she likes to mix it up when she’s quilting — some by hand and some by machine. For instance, for a modern design, she’ll use the computer to design. For more custom and special designs, she’ll use the time-honored method by hand.

Debbie Engelhardt, with the shop, does everything by freehand because she wants to do her own thing.

Tammy Holt, owner of Sew Much More Sewing Center in Nederland, said she attends quilt shows all over the country.

She turned her hobby into a business 20 years ago. She said with “fancy machines” everybody is getting into quilting.

The shop carries Baby Lock sewing machines which start at $99. From there, more elaborate models use computerized designs. The machines have no knobs, no tensions and no bobbins. She said this make things “a lot easier.”

“We offer the customers a free guide on how to use them. We want them to enjoy it and maybe we won’t have to service them as much,” she said.

Holt said they’re a full service store and they also offer classes, even for kids.

She said things such as sewing, embroidering and quilting are making a comeback.

“We’re bringing back the old timey things,” Holt said.

Furthermore, Walker believes quilting is having a resurgence.

“We have traditional and art quilts that almost look like a painting. We hope everybody has a good time.”