Welcome! This site is a forum for EBHQ members to share announcements and photos. EBHQ is a guild of quilters that meets near Berkeley once a month, with regular workshops, dropins, and lectures. Visit our website at ebhq.org.
Monday, November 23, 2015
Past: Entry deadline today for Show and Tell entries
If you plan to show a quilt next week at Show and Tell, please enter today.
The link is on this page: Look in the Nov. 30 entry.
-- Rachel Holmen
Friday, September 18, 2015
Past event: Alameda County Arts Commission Exhibit - Deadline for Submitting Quilts is September 28th
EBHQ Member Alert!! Here’s a fantastic opportunity to show your work.
Now is the time to choose one or more of your quilts to show in the annual exhibit for the Alameda County Arts Commission. The show is neither judged nor juried but it IS a great way to show your newest work and share our fabulous guild with the city of Oakland.
Quilts will be hung in three secure places for the public to view them beginning October 23rd– the first floor and fifth floor galleries at 1221 Oak Street and in the Main Entrance Lobby of the Highland Care Pavilion, 1411 E. 31st Street. Deadline for entries is September 28th.
For more complete information and to print out entry forms, go to ebhq.org. Questions? Call or email Jane Herlihy. jherlihy@pacbell.net (510)821-3637
Monday, August 24, 2015
Past event: OOPS - the August 2015 meeting is NEXT week
Your blog editor goofed -- the August meeting for EBHQ is not tonight, it's next Monday, August 31.
My apologies.
-- Rachel Holmen
CORRECTION: Aug 31, not tonight for next EBHQ meeting
CORRECTED TEXT: Summer is coming to a close, and next Monday's meeting (August 31) features Ana Lisa Hedstrom, who will talk about "35 Years of Shibori Dyeing for Pieced Clothing and Quilts".
See you there!
-- Rachel Holmen
Monday, August 03, 2015
It’s Time to Show Your Quilts!
EBHQ’s Alameda County Arts Commission Exhibit
Oct. 23 - Feb.
26, 2016: Alameda County
Administration Bldg., 1221 Oak Street, near the Oakland Museum and just three
blocks from Lake Merritt BART
Oct. 23 - June
2, 2016: Highland Care
Pavilion, 1411 E. 31st Street, Oakland
Don’t miss the chance to be included this year and show off
your fabulous work. Both shows are located in well-lit, secure areas with high
traffic that are open to the public during normal working hours, Monday through
Friday. Our annual show is highly anticipated by the County workers and the
public who visit these buildings. What a wonderful way to promote quilting and
EBHQ in the East Bay!
We need up to 40 pieces (that have not been previously shown
here) in a wide range of styles and dimensions. Quilts can be up to 65” in
length and of any width, but small and medium quilts are most welcome and show
very well. Quilts will need to have a 4” sleeve sewn on the back.
Timeline:
1. Submit entry forms no later than September 28th
EBHQ general meeting
2. Deliver quilts at one of these events: General
meetings on August 31 or Sept. 28, Drop-Ins on Sept. 8 and 19. Or make special
arrangements with Jane Herlihy.
3. Show Installation: October 23, 2015
4. Show De-installation: Feb. 26 (County
Administration Bldg.) and June 2, 2016 (Highland Pavilion)
5. Quilts returned to you at general meeting
following the date of show closure, or by special arrangement.
Information will also be posted on our website and in the upcoming August Friendship Knot.Print out entry form:
Questions? Contact: Jane Herlihy jherlihy@pacbell.net (510)339-3494
-- posted by Pati Fried
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Entry deadline: New Quilts of Northern California
Guild members may want to enter quilts at PIQF (Oct. 15-18). You may enter the general show, or the "New Quilts of Northern California". And you can sign up for classes. So here are three different signup forms for these opportunities:
A printable general entry form is at http://www.quiltfest.com/files/PIQF_2015_QuiltEntry.pdf, and it must be postmarked by Sept. 1. You may also enter online, at http://quiltfestpiqfentry.com/
The entry for New Quilts of Northern California is at http://www.ncqc.net/pdf_files/2015%20New%20Quilts%20Exhibit%20Information%20with%20Form.pdf and the form must be postmarked by August 9.
PIQF also offers classes from many excellent instructors. The signup form is due by Sept. 28, but you may wish to sign up soon, since popular classes fill up before the deadline. http://www.quiltfest.com/files/PIQF_2015_RegForm.pdf
The expo portion of the show runs from 10am to 6pm, Thursday the 15th through Saturday the 17th; the expo will also run Sunday the 18th from 9am to 3pm. (Note: there will be a sports game beginning around 1 pm on Sunday, which will affect traffic and parking in the area.)
EBHQ usually brings its Opportunity Quilts to PIQF; please sign up to offer white-glove assistance so that we can display our quilts.
-- Rachel Holmen
A printable general entry form is at http://www.quiltfest.com/files/PIQF_2015_QuiltEntry.pdf, and it must be postmarked by Sept. 1. You may also enter online, at http://quiltfestpiqfentry.com/
The entry for New Quilts of Northern California is at http://www.ncqc.net/pdf_files/2015%20New%20Quilts%20Exhibit%20Information%20with%20Form.pdf and the form must be postmarked by August 9.
PIQF also offers classes from many excellent instructors. The signup form is due by Sept. 28, but you may wish to sign up soon, since popular classes fill up before the deadline. http://www.quiltfest.com/files/PIQF_2015_RegForm.pdf
The expo portion of the show runs from 10am to 6pm, Thursday the 15th through Saturday the 17th; the expo will also run Sunday the 18th from 9am to 3pm. (Note: there will be a sports game beginning around 1 pm on Sunday, which will affect traffic and parking in the area.)
EBHQ usually brings its Opportunity Quilts to PIQF; please sign up to offer white-glove assistance so that we can display our quilts.
-- Rachel Holmen
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Past event: Indigo dye workshop in San Francisco, July 12, 2015
Indigo To Go Workshop
Discover how easy it is to mix up and use and maintain a dye vat of pre-reduced indigo. Watch your cloth turn blue in the air, like magic. Create dramatic, colorfast, indigo blue and white patterns on your clothing, quilt fabric, and home decor. Bring your own white items to dye: T-shirts, socks, pillowcases, tea towels, etc. Class will be held outdoors under a canopy.
with Joy-Lily
Sunday
July 12, 2015; 12 - 4 PM
Location: Sharon Art Studio in Golden Gate Park
Location: Sharon Art Studio in Golden Gate Park
Cost: $75 ($65 if you are a member of the Sharon Art Center) plus $20 materials fee
Discover how easy it is to mix up and use and maintain a dye vat of pre-reduced indigo. Watch your cloth turn blue in the air, like magic. Create dramatic, colorfast, indigo blue and white patterns on your clothing, quilt fabric, and home decor. Bring your own white items to dye: T-shirts, socks, pillowcases, tea towels, etc. Class will be held outdoors under a canopy.
Sign up
online at http://www.sfreconline.org course code 40892, or call 415-753-7004
Photos: dyed socks; pole-dyed fabric; scarves with stitched shibori designs.
Photos: dyed socks; pole-dyed fabric; scarves with stitched shibori designs.
Sunday, June 07, 2015
Your Artwork in a BART Station?
At
the Joyce Gordon Gallery in Oakland on Friday night (right at the 14th
Street BART station entrance), I picked up a flyer about workshops for
artists that are being sponsored by BART for this subway art project.
Two workshops are already scheduled: July 8 at the Joyce Gordon Gallery,
and July 18 at ProArts Gallery. Contact Abby Thorne-Lyman
(athorne@bart.gov) and check the website, http://www.bart.gov/art.
Additional workshops are planned, and the flyer notes in English,
Spanish, and three other languages (I'm guessing Tagalog, Vietnamese,
and Korean), "If you need language assistance services, please call
(510) 464-6752 at least 72 hours prior to the date of the event."
I have no idea if they're interested in textile art, but I'm sure a quilt could be the basis for a piece of more crowd-safe artwork.
-- Rachel Holmen
P.S. The Alice Beasley talk on Friday was wonderful, and the artwork will be up for another few weeks. This show is easy to get to, and it's well worth your trouble.
I have no idea if they're interested in textile art, but I'm sure a quilt could be the basis for a piece of more crowd-safe artwork.
-- Rachel Holmen
P.S. The Alice Beasley talk on Friday was wonderful, and the artwork will be up for another few weeks. This show is easy to get to, and it's well worth your trouble.
Wednesday, June 03, 2015
Past Event: Alice Beasley Speaks Friday in Oakland
The exhibit, entitled "Loss: Public/Private", examines absence and loss in both our private (life, aging, loneliness); and in our public lives (voting rights, gun violence, global financial crisis).
The Joyce Gordon Gallery is located at 406 14th St. in downtown Oakland; the gallery phone number is (510) 465-8928.
-- Rachel Holmen
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Bandanas and Boro Cloth -- a followup to Jean Cacicedo's recent talk
Jean Cacicedo's talk on Monday included some fascinating stuff:
She mentioned a book, "Indigo: The Color That Changed the World", which I found on Amazon by Caterine Legrand. (And for anyone who loves indigo, I personally recommend the video BLUE ALCHEMY, by Mary Lance. See http://bluealchemyindigo.com/.)
"Boro cloth", much-mended fabric created in Japan, originally by families too poor to buy new fabric, was discussed and shown in Jean's talk. Here's more information: https://furugistarjapan.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/boro-japanese-folk-fabric/
With permission from Yew Tree House Antiques, this post displays an image of a boro cloth currently for sale. Put the word "boro" into the website search box to see it and the information about it -- I could not come up with a direct link.
The wool gauze Jean likes is available from Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, whose webpage is http://yoshikowada.com/
Many of us know that crewel embroidery was an attempt to replicate the patterns on textiles brought to Europe and America from India. But I certainly didn't know something Jean discovered during a trip to India to study weaving and dyeing techniques: the origin of the word bandana.
"bandana (n.)
also often bandanna, 1752, from Hindi bandhnu, a method of dyeing, from Sanskrit badhnati "binds" (because the cloth is tied like modern tie-dye), from same PIE root as band (n.1). Etymologically, the colors and spots are what makes it a bandana." (from http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bandana)
and
"from Hindi bāndhnū tie-dyeing, from bāndhnā to tie, from Sanskrit bandhnāti he ties" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bandanna)
Now I have to go look at one to see the modern translation of the dot pattern which is India's equivalent of Japanese shibori. I've put a few internet images with this post, but you can find lots more by searching online yourself.
— Rachel Holmen
She mentioned a book, "Indigo: The Color That Changed the World", which I found on Amazon by Caterine Legrand. (And for anyone who loves indigo, I personally recommend the video BLUE ALCHEMY, by Mary Lance. See http://bluealchemyindigo.com/.)
"Boro cloth", much-mended fabric created in Japan, originally by families too poor to buy new fabric, was discussed and shown in Jean's talk. Here's more information: https://furugistarjapan.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/boro-japanese-folk-fabric/
With permission from Yew Tree House Antiques, this post displays an image of a boro cloth currently for sale. Put the word "boro" into the website search box to see it and the information about it -- I could not come up with a direct link.
The wool gauze Jean likes is available from Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, whose webpage is http://yoshikowada.com/
Many of us know that crewel embroidery was an attempt to replicate the patterns on textiles brought to Europe and America from India. But I certainly didn't know something Jean discovered during a trip to India to study weaving and dyeing techniques: the origin of the word bandana.
"bandana (n.)
also often bandanna, 1752, from Hindi bandhnu, a method of dyeing, from Sanskrit badhnati "binds" (because the cloth is tied like modern tie-dye), from same PIE root as band (n.1). Etymologically, the colors and spots are what makes it a bandana." (from http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bandana)
and
"from Hindi bāndhnū tie-dyeing, from bāndhnā to tie, from Sanskrit bandhnāti he ties" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bandanna)
Now I have to go look at one to see the modern translation of the dot pattern which is India's equivalent of Japanese shibori. I've put a few internet images with this post, but you can find lots more by searching online yourself.
— Rachel Holmen
Monday, May 11, 2015
Past Event: Bring a friend for free on May 18! (Yes, this month's meeting is earlier than usual.)
Guild members are encouraged to bring friends to our next meeting -- when we'll be holding our Silent Auction. Last year's auction was full of beautiful, amazing items -- everything from jewelry to hand-made items for your home!
The meeting is May 18; doors open at 6:30 pm.
After the auction, we'll hear Jean Cacidedo discuss The Dynamics of Design, and we'll see examples of her work. Jean continues to be instrumental in the Wearable Art Movement. She will
provide insight into the dynamics of designing with cloth, the
transformative properties of cloth itself, and the change beneath the
surface of the cloth.
- RH
The meeting is May 18; doors open at 6:30 pm.
- RH
Saturday, May 09, 2015
Past Event: A few chances left to learn NOTAN from Jean Cacidedo
There are still a few openings for next weekend's workshops. You don't have to be a member of EBHQ to attend.
The Saturday workshop (May 16, 2015) has one opening -- this workshop uses only black and white paper to help you learn the techniques of Notan. Monday's workshop on May 18
Saturday's workshop is called "Notan: the Dynamics of Design in Black and White"; Monday's is "Notan: the Dynamics of Design with Color". See http://www.ebhq.org/classes for more details.
- RH
http://jeancacicedo.com/Jean_Cacicedo/Artwork.html#3
The Saturday workshop (May 16, 2015) has one opening -- this workshop uses only black and white paper to help you learn the techniques of Notan. Monday's workshop on May 18
Saturday's workshop is called "Notan: the Dynamics of Design in Black and White"; Monday's is "Notan: the Dynamics of Design with Color". See http://www.ebhq.org/classes for more details.
- For registration questions contact Workshop Chair, Marty Suess as quickly as possible: EBHQWorkshops@gmail.com (email preferred) or 510-374-6221.
- RH
http://jeancacicedo.com/Jean_Cacicedo/Artwork.html#3
Wednesday, April 08, 2015
Past Event: Sewing Session to Honor the Late Deanna Davis
The Modern Quilt Guild has invited EBHQ members to join them this coming Sunday afternoon, April 12.
Stitch Up - An afternoon of sewing in memory of Deanna Davis
Come and celebrate the life and passion of our friend, Deanna, by helping to make quilts for her favorite charity, The Children's Quilt Project.
Fabric kits will be provided. Just bring your sewing machine or bring your own fabric donation.
People new to sewing are welcome!
Sunday, April 12
12-3pm
Piedmont Center of the Arts
801 Magnolia Ave, Piedmont, CA
Other events and gallery hours may be found on our website, Stitch Modern. Questions or comments? Contact Pati at Patifried@yahoo.com.
We hope you can join in.
(signed) -- East Bay Modern Quilters
Stitch Up - An afternoon of sewing in memory of Deanna Davis
Come and celebrate the life and passion of our friend, Deanna, by helping to make quilts for her favorite charity, The Children's Quilt Project.
Fabric kits will be provided. Just bring your sewing machine or bring your own fabric donation.
People new to sewing are welcome!
Sunday, April 12
12-3pm
Piedmont Center of the Arts
801 Magnolia Ave, Piedmont, CA
Other events and gallery hours may be found on our website, Stitch Modern. Questions or comments? Contact Pati at Patifried@yahoo.com.
We hope you can join in.
(signed) -- East Bay Modern Quilters
In Memory -- Deanna Davis
From the current president of EBHQ comes this sad letter.
"In Memory
I am saddened to announce that Deanna Davis passed on Tuesday, March 3, 2015. In memory of Deanna’s life, on the following Saturday, the immediate family and a few close friends, met in her garden with her quilts hanging.
We all know the love she had for Children’s Quilts and the Guild as a whole. I worked with Deanna on the Board for the last four years in her roles as Hostess Coordinator, President and Past President. She inspired me and I am sure many others to continue our work with the Guild. I know Deanna will be missed by all of us.
Sincerely,
Pamela Jensen
EBHQ President"
"In Memory
I am saddened to announce that Deanna Davis passed on Tuesday, March 3, 2015. In memory of Deanna’s life, on the following Saturday, the immediate family and a few close friends, met in her garden with her quilts hanging.
We all know the love she had for Children’s Quilts and the Guild as a whole. I worked with Deanna on the Board for the last four years in her roles as Hostess Coordinator, President and Past President. She inspired me and I am sure many others to continue our work with the Guild. I know Deanna will be missed by all of us.
Sincerely,
Pamela Jensen
EBHQ President"
Sunday, February 08, 2015
Past Event: Feb 28: Artist Reception in Vallejo for "World War II Homefront Quilts"
January 24 - April 4, 2015
Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum
Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum
Reception: Saturday, February 28
2:00 to 4:00
Meet the Quilters and learn the stories behind the quilts
734 Marin Street, Vallejo, Ca 94590
Telephone: (707) 643-0077
Museum website and more details: http://www.vallejomuseum.org/
734 Marin Street, Vallejo, Ca 94590
Telephone: (707) 643-0077
Museum website and more details: http://www.vallejomuseum.org/
The reception open to the public and free with the price of admission ($5). The flyer for the event includes EBHQ member Andre Morand's quilt, Richmond Shipyards. His quilt is also on the museum's website. The other quilt pictured, Stamp Collectors, is by Geri Beam.
-- Rachel Holmen
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