Past Event: Cheap Books!

C&T Publishing is having an online sale of some of their craft books.  The sale begins at 8 pm Friday, ends Monday.  The following weekend, you can go to their warehouse in Concord and buy books and patterns in person.  Full details at ctpub.com

-- RH

Past event: August workshop not yet filled

We still have room in the workshops being held at the end of August. See the workshop list for more information about the two classes being taught by Barbara Shapel.

If you'd like to know more about Barbara, she has a website at barbarashapel.com, and a blog at barbarashapel.blogspot.com/, plus at least one video on YouTube.

 To sign up, please contact Work Shop Chair Arleen Kukua, EBHQWorkshops@gmail.com, and pay the class fee. Enjoy!

-- Rachel Holmen

EBHQ Affiliate Member website list

In case you are looking for a list of the EBHQ Affiliate Members -- the quilt shops and long-arm quilters and other professionals who support us -- the full list is here. -- RH

Past Event: Amazing Stash Sale

An international fabric collector, Jonathan Shannon, is selling off his stash. The sale is Saturday and Sunday at New Pieces.

Past Event: Big Craft Show at Fort Mason, Friday - Saturday - Sunday

http://shows.craftcouncil.org/sf

Fort Mason has huge spaces for shows like this.  You can buy tickets online, and there's a free shuttle from the Marina Green.  Come out and support fellow crafters.

Past Event: Small quilt show in Pacifica ends Aug. 12

The Sanchez Art Center has quilts on display until Aug. 12, 2012.  The quilters whose work is displayed are Joyce Goode, Judy Woodfill, Janet Mednick, Laureen Neilly, Julie Scribner, Juna Carle, Merrilyn Scott, and Tama Blough.  Several of these women are also quilt teachers and lecturers; at least one has published quilting books.

The gallery is located at 1220 Linda Mar Blvd. in Pacifica, "about 1.5 miles east of Highway 1".

Here's the show announcement. -- Rachel Holmen

Is someone else going to do your quilting?

If your primary activity as a quilter is to design and piece your quilt, but not do the actual quilting, several of our affiliate members have posted guidelines on the web.

Guidelines for having a top quilted, or an old quilt restored, from Madelin Wolf, and Quilt Preparation, from New Pieces. -- RH

More sad news: Kathy Sandbach has died.

From the C & T blog.  See http://www.ctpubblog.com/2009/08/25/kathy-sandbach-update/ and then http://www.ctpubblog.com/2012/06/14/remembering-kathy-sandbach/

Her son Ken posted on June 13, 2012: "...she passed last week here in Las Vegas. We’re planning a celebration next month on the 14th in Lodi CA and then we’re looking to scatter ashes in Bandon. No time set for that trip yet.

Thank you for your concern. You can feel free to pass along this info and can reach me at ksandbach@hotmail.com"


-- Rachel Holmen 

Past Events: Two sales and a party

The Cotton Patch in Lafayette is having a big sale Saturday and Sunday, June 30 and July 1, at their store in Lafayette.   The Berkeley/NorthOakland fabric, yarn, and fiber store A Verb for Keeping Warm, is having a kickoff party Saturday afternoon for its Seam Allowance club, whose members will pledge to make 25% of their own clothing during the coming year.  And there's indoor yard sale on Saturday, July 7, from 10am-7pm at Textile Dreams Studio on 8th between Parker and Carleton.

10-5 Saturday; 11-4 Sunday - Cotton Patch big sale
Try out Bernina and Janome sewing machines at the Cotton Patch Annex.
Check the store's front porch for outrageous bargains!
Inside the store, 25% off everything.  EVERYthing.  (Well, not the fixtures, or the staff...but all the fabric, all the patterns, all the notions, all those fabulous utility fabrics and interfacings that make our projects better.)
Address:  1025 Brown Avenue, Lafayette, CA  94549, (925) 284-1177
Not too far from Lafayette BART station, or drive to the Oak Hill Road exit, turn left on Oak Hill Road and then right on Deer Hill Road; right again under the freeway onto Brown Avenue (at the bottom of a little hill).


3-6 pm Saturday,
Kickoff party for "SEAM ALLOWANCE" Club at VERB (San Pablo at Alcatraz, Berkeley). Take the Pledge! To make (at least) 25% of your own clothing!
 On Saturday, June 30th, from 3-6 pm, club members will gather to kick off a year of making their own clothing. They would love to have you join them! Reservations are recommended for this free event. Please phone 510.595.8372, or notify info ((at)) averbforkeepingwarm ((dot)) com. Club details: monthly Seam Allowance meetups to learn sewing and knitting tips and tricks, a chance to meet other members and show off what you've made, set goals and discuss aspirations, hear guest speakers, receive a 10% discount for Seam Allowance projects, and -- best of all -- receive a Fancy Membership Card! For more details, and information about the four main speakers on Saturday, see http://www.averbforkeepingwarm.com/collections/seam-allowance/products/seam-allowance-kick-off-party-sun-june-30.

Next week:  Saturday, July 7, 10am-7pm TEXTILE DREAM STUDIO yard sale
After 24 years, Textile Dream Studio is moving -- only a block away -- and it's time to have a big sale.

Remembering Carol Lee Blangsted

Carol Lee Blangsted, who held dozens of board posts over the years at EBHQ, and who emceed the November "show and tell" event every year, lost her battle with cancer on June 22, 2012.  She'll be remembered for her knowledge, her skills, for the classes she taught, for her well-made and often humorous quilts, and most of all for her hats.  The sad news was conveyed to our members by new board president Deanna Davis at yesterday's guild meeting.

Carol Lee Blangsted was interviewed and recorded in 1998 for the EBHQ Living Treasures project.

If you have photos of Carol Lee, or of her quilts, or memories you'd like to share, please email photos for this blog to raeholmen@gmail.com, and post memories as comments to this post.

Here's a photo of her quilt "Remember Test Patterns?"  in the Voices in Cloth 2012 show.

The New Pieces website has several photos of Carol Lee, and photos of some of her quilts in listings of past classes.

-- Rachel Holmen

Past Event: Still room in Ann Horton's workshop

The Ann Horton workshop has a few openings left; you do NOT need to be an EBHQ member to attend.  (I think there workshop fee is a few dollars less if you're a member.)

Here's a revised supply list:


Designing Quilts for Textured Embellishment

Fabric pieces (fat quarter size) for sky, hills, foreground and leaves
Unusual textured fabrics such as upholstery fabrics, nubby knits, etc. (optional)
Pieces of yarn, fuzzy threads, wool roving, etc. (optional)
2 border fabrics: larger border (1/2 yd.) and narrow border (1/4 yd.)
Cotton batting and 1 yd. backing fabric
Thread – general sewing and rayon in assorted colors for embroidery and thread work
Stabilizer: 1 yd. light to med weight tear away for embroidery and 1 yd. rinse away
Sewing supplies: scissors, pins, acrylic ruler, rotary cutter, matt, hand sewing needle
Free motion quilting foot or darning foot
Small appliqué iron ( optional - if you have one it will be handy) and small pressing pad
Paper, freezer paper, pencil and paper scissors
Additions to this list, from email:
A small hoop (5 to 6 inches) for our thread painting technique
A piece of organza - any color - about the size of a fat quarter (I'll have extra if you can't find some by Monday)
Hand sewing needles for some basted applique techniques
A fabric that has a bird (or fish) on it that you could include in your small quilt project
A few fabrics that include large flowers, etc. that you could include on your project, if desired

Free pass: Watch Sonya Barrington through June 17

Sonya Lee Barrington, a noted San Francisco quilter, has arranged for free "passes" this week only, to view her at The Quilt Show, an online show hosted by Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims.

(June 24, 2012: though the free passes are no longer available, the show remains online.  -- Rachel Holmen)

(And I noted that there is a link on The Quilt Show website for those of us with slow connections --  click WATCH SHOWS and then look along the top menu to the far right, where you'll see SLOWER SPEEDS.)

Here's the email Ms. Barrington sent to friends:

Sonya Lee Barrington, Episode #1012

Dear Friends, Family and Colleagues......

My episode is airing, beginning today, on “The Quilt Show”! I am really excited and I hope you like it. I had great fun doing the taping. This is an online “Quilt Magazine”. It has terrific online articles with video, sound and all of the bells and whistles of the new technology that is driving the information age.

Watching usually needs a paid subscription but as a special offer, they have kindly given me links, special dates for free viewing and discounts if you want to purchase your own personal subscription.
From June 10 - 17, 2012, click on this link below and you can watch the episode for free.

https://www.thequiltshow.com/os/create_account_2.php/alias/ sonya_lee_barrington/coupon_number/213828978143

If you want to subscribe and receive a discount of 20% when joining, the coupon code is: 213828978143.

Please note in order for you to view my show you need to sign up as a Basic (Free) member and TQS will take care of the rest.

• Log on to the website www.thequiltshow.com 
• Click on the Join Now button 
• Create a profile name and password 
• Complete the sign up process for the Basic (Free) membership

Once you have done so, let us know and we will automatically upgrade your status to Star (Paid) membership

Enjoy...I am looking forward to hearing from you with feedback.

Sonya Lee Barrington                          www.sonyaleebarrington.com

LongArm Quilting practice using our Childrens Quilts

Deanna Davis sent this link
http://onthedesignwall.blogspot.com/2012/05/bonding.html
posted by a quilter who helped out with our Children's Quilt Project.

Terry Jarrard-Dimond reports on her visit to our guild

Terry Jarrard-Dimond talked about her visit to our guild in her personal blog.

Terry Jarrard-Dimond Studio 24-7: East Bay Heritage Quilters

Thanks, Deanna Davis, for letting me know about this one. -- Rachel Holmen

Shape workshop with Terry Jarrard-Dimond

Mad Elena has posted photos and a report on her blog:  http://mad-elena.blogspot.com/2012/05/geometric-shapes.html.

Thanks to Arleen Kukua for letting me know. -- Rachel Holmen

Past Event: Big Sale of Traditional Quilts THIS WEEKEND

Sorry for the lack of advance notice.  Eli Leon is selling his traditional quilt collection at Elbow Grease Studios in Berkeley.

Elbow Grease Designs' Showroom
2743 9th Street in Berkeley (map)
The sale begins at 10 each day.  Regular hours 11 - 4 Tues, Wed & Thur, 11 - 7 Fridays
(and by appointment).   510-841-8548

There's a Facebook gallery with lots of photos -- https://www.facebook.com/pages/Elbow-Grease-Designs/129780427037898

The Facebook hours say the Elbow Grease studio is closed for the weekend. This is incorrect; the studio is OPEN from at least 10 to 4 on Saturday and Sunday.

This weekend also features MAKER FAIR in San Mateo, and the every-other-year conference of Northern California Handweavers Conference at the Oakland Convention Center -- see the earlier post on this blog.

No scope for imagination

Any comments? 

I recently listened to an audio version of the classic novel "Anne of Green Gables", and was sure I had heard the heroine comment, "there's no scope for imagination in patchwork."  So I found a paper copy, and sure enough, here's the exact quote:

"...there's no scope for imagination in patchwork. It's just one little seam after another and you never seem to be getting anywhere."

Too bad she couldn't have seen a quilt show like our recent Voices in Cloth!

If you run across a similarly, um, LIMITED view of quilting, could you post the quote as a comment on this post?  I'm sure quilters will be amused.  -- Rachel Holmen

More about Marjan Kluepfel's Dye Workshop

Arleen Kukua has posted a wonderful report about Marjan Kluepfel's dyeing workshop at http://quiltohana.blogspot.com/.   Here's a photo of Arleen's work in progress.  (There are actually two posts, one about the Monday workshop, and a separate post about the Saturday workshop.)

Past Event: Weaving Show in Oakland this weekend

Also Maker Faire in San Mateo. Northern Calif Handweavers expo is this weekend.

 This event only happens every OTHER year, and it moves around, so we're lucky to have it local this time. It's at the Oakland Convention Center, where EBHQ used to have its shows; right next to 12th Street BART Station. Parking is available; if you don't like the convention center prices, drive down Washington Street and you'll see several less expensive lots. I've used the one at 7th and Washington (only reachable from the 7th street side) for years and nobody's ever bothered my car. (I get my hair cut next door at the fabulous TOPPS Salon.)

 The website for CNCH has a $2 discount coupon you can print and bring with you.

 The gallery of weaving samples is always just amazing, and there are baskets, and often things woven from improbable materials (old cassette tape; Capri Sun juice containers; you name it).   There's a hands-on, make it/take it area, and chances for hands-on weaving, spinning, etc.

-- Rachel Holmen

Late Spring Exhibits at San Jose Museum of Quilts

On May 12, a set of special activities will interest quilters and weavers.

From the website for the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles:

"May 12, Saturday from 10am – 4pm
Join us for ArtHouse!

A FREE art and art-making block party on South First Street in downtown San Jose between Williams and Reed Streets that includes art shows, guided gallery tours, artist talks, hands-on art activities, original artworks for sale, improv comedy and more! Presented by High Fire ClaySpace and Gallery, MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, The Stage and Notre Dame High School Improv Comedy Players. Free Parking at Notre Dame High School at 596 South Second Street and the City parking lot underneath Hwy 280 one block south of the ICA. Activities at the Museum:

• Guided Gallery Tours of Mark Adams
• Weaving Demonstrations by master weaver Tricia Goldberg (10am - 12pm)
• Weaving Workshop for adults and children by Fabmo (2pm to 4pm)"

The pictorial tapestries of Mark Adams will be featured from May 15 – July 29, 2012. There will be special activities from June 21 to 24.

For more information about either the ArtHouse event, or the Mark Adams exhibit and events, see the museum's website at www.sjquiltmuseum.org/exhibitions_upcoming.html.