Past Event: Today's meeting is deadline for entering wearables and quilts

The entry deadline for Voices in Cloth is the meeting this evening at First Unitarian Church of Berkeley in Kensington.

See ebhq.org for the necessary forms.  Your items don't have to be finished or delivered today, but the FORMS and photos need to be turned in for the people planning the show layout.

If you have workshop items to enter, that deadline is still a week or two away.

-- Rachel Holmen

Interesting article about American textiles

A modern photographer has posted an interesting slideshow of American weaving factories.  Most of the photos relate to wool rather than cotton, but they're fascinating anyway.  (And did you know that indigo -- to dye fabric blue -- was a major American crop, encouraged in particular by a teenage girl -- Eliza Lucas Pickney -- left in charge of her father's plantation?)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/magazine/fruits-of-the-loom.html

For more about Eliza Pickney, read Cokie Roberts' fascinating book, Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation.


-- Rachel Holmen

Past Event: Entry Deadline is Coming Up Fast! January 24 is the last day to mail in your entry.

January 24 is the last day to postmark your quilt entry for the March quilt show, Voices in Cloth.

Please see the entry form by clicking this link.  Online entries will be accepted until Jan. 27.

-- Rachel Holmen

Quilt Shows for Spring 2014

In addition to our own Voices In Cloth show, March 22-23, other nearby guilds are also having quilt shows.  Here's a list of some of them:


Feb. 7-9, 2014, in Folsom, at the Community Center, is the Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild show.
http://www.folsomquilt.org/quilt_show.html

Feb. 22-23, at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds, Rachel Clark is the featured artist at the Pajaro Valley Quilt Association's show.
http://pvqa.org/pvqa-quilt-show/

March 15-16, the Valley Quilt Guild show is held at the Yuba-Sutter Fairgrounds.  http://valleyquiltguild.com/shows/

March 22-23, in Auburn, the Foothill Quilters Guild show featuring "Glorious Foothill Flowers" will be held at Gold Country Fairgrounds.
http://www.foothillquilters.org/quiltshow.html

March 29-30 at the Golden Palace in Fresno, the San Joaquin Valley Quilters Guild's Quilt Show has the theme "Springtime in the Valley".
http://sjvqg.org/


April 5-6, at Centre Concord, the annual show held by the Guild of Quilters of Contra Costa County.
http://www.contracostaquiltguild.org/quilt_show.htm

April 5-6, Quilts by the Bay is held by Monterey Peninsula Quilters Guild at Chautauqua Hall in Pacific Grove.
http://www.mpqg.org/quilt-show/

-- Rachel Holmen