Past Event: Alameda County Arts Commission - Turn Quilts in at September General Meeting!

Just a reminder that you have a few days left to sew on bindings and add sleeves to your wonderful small quilts. Bring them to the September 29 General Meeting, along with a form for each quilt. Here are all the details.

EBHQ’s Alameda County Arts Commission Exhibit

Oct. 27, 2014 through Feb. 26, 2015

Alameda County Administration Building

1221 Oak Street, near the Oakland Museum
Just three blocks from Lake Merritt BART.

It’s time to enter your quilts in our annual exhibit for the Alameda County Arts Commission (ACAC). Our show is highly anticipated by the County workers and a wonderful way to promote quilting and EBHQ to the public. Don’t miss the chance to be included this year and show off your fabulous work!

The show is located in two well-lit, secure areas, with high traffic that are open to the public during normal working hours, Monday through Friday.

We need up to 40 pieces 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. All entry forms and quilts must be turned in by Sept. 29 to allow time to curate the show and compile exhibit information for installation on Oct.24th. You may exhibit more than one quilt as long as you include separate entry and release forms for each. All quilts will be returned at the February General Meeting.

Click here to access the Entry Form.

All quilts and entry forms must be turned in by September General Meeting on Sept. 29. Submit entry form (and photo, if possible) by Sept. 29 to:

Pati Fried – email to patifried@yahoo.com , or mail to 105 Calvert Court, Piedmont, 94611. 

Contact for Special Arrangements:

Pati Fried, patifried@yahoo.com 510-502-4248
Claire Sherman - cfsherman@msn.com 510-525-6622
Kim Buteau - artgirl440@gmail.com 925-332-6747

Past Event: Still room in this week's workshops

Want to have some fun this weekend?  Both the Saturday and the Monday workshop have a few openings.  These workshops are taught by Stacey Sharman, a founder of the East Bay Modern Quilt Guild.  Saturday, June 28, 2014 – Improvisational Confetti Quilt, and Monday, June 30, 2014 – Improvisational Split Log Cabin Quilt. 

Stacy's website is peppermintpinwheels.com.  For more information about the workshops, including supply lists, see the EBHQ website's workshop page.

Non-members of the quild are welcome to attend; each workshop costs $55.

-- Rachel Holmen

Past Event: WWII Home Front Exhibit Extended

We are excited that Richmond Museum of History has extended the "Quilts of the Home Front “ exhibit through June 29th.  Museum director Melinda McCrary says “Higher than usual visitor volume continues, and we are delighted by this interest.“  Featured are the thirty 2014 challenge quilts, many period items from the Museum’s permanent collection, and three large story quilts about the Japanese American internment on loan to RMH. You still have time to see this great exhibit, or visit again!

Get info about days/hours/entry fees at  www.richmondmuseumofhistory.org.

Help spread the word that our Second Call for Quilts will close on July 20, 2014. Up to two new entries per artist may be submitted. Details are on the Project website: http://www.wwiihomefrontquilts.com/2014-call-for-entries/

Stay tuned! We are working on additional venues for quilts from both calls through the summer of 2015.  Watch for information on the website.

Best regards,
Jennie Alexich and Rosemary Corbin, Coordinators

Email the Project at: 2014challenge@wwiihomefrontquilts.com
Copyright © 2014 WWII Home Front Quilt Challenge 2014, All rights reserved.
Challenge partner

Our mailing address is:
WWII Home Front Quilt Challenge 2014
P.O. Box 70847
Richmond, CA 94807

Lots Happening at the San Jose Museum of Quilts during May, 2014

Cool stuff is happening at the San Jose Museum of Quilts.

Tuesday, May 6, will be a "day of giving" as the museum kicks off a short fundraising campaign.  If you can contribute, click either of the link here:
 http://www.sjquiltmuseum.org/give.html or http://svgives.razoo.com/story/Sjmqt

Now though July 20, 2014: Quilt National 2013 -- 87 quilts selected from over 800 displayed at one of last year's major exhibitions.

Also now through July 20, 2014: "Now and Then: Early Art Quilts by Ros Cross 1973-76", five quilts from a Southern California quilter who was born in England.

May 7 – July 20, 2014: New SAQA exhibit: Northern California Inspirations.  "The works presented in this gallery are by members of the Northern California/Nevada Region of Studio Art Quilt Associates…"

"On June 8, 2014, Inside Quilt National, a Fiber Talks program with juror Judith Content and Quilt National artists Leslie Bixel and Sylvia Gegaregian will run from 1:00–3pm."  Advance tickets required.

-- Rachel Holmen


(Hey, if you're a member of EBHQ and have ideas for the blog, I'm happy to add you as a contributor.  Just send me a message.  Pati and I don't have to be the only contributors.)

Past Event: May Meeting is Tonight

The May meeting is tonight (since next Monday is Memorial Day).

Our speaker is Sandra Bruce, whose website is http://www.sandrabruce.com.

-- Rachel Holmen

Past Event: Quilt Show This Weekend at Vallejo Fairgrounds

The Vallejo Piecemakers have their quilt show this weekend (May 3 and 4, 2014; Saturday till 5, Sunday till 4), and artists in Benecia are having open studios.

The quilt show is at McCormick Hall on the  Solano County Fairgrounds.  Directions and a map are shown at http://www.scfair.com/directions.html

-- Rachel Holmen

Handwoven Fabric Sale at Laura & Kiran

Friday was the first time I'd ever been inside the Berkeley showroom for Laura & Kiran, a firm which imports fabric -- mostly handwoven.  I stumbled onto their spring sale, which is on for several more days.

Above is an interesting ikat fabric. 

The store's website is laurakiran.com, and they're located only a few blocks from New Pieces, at the corner of Page and Fourth in Berkeley (if you are on Gilman, Page is one block south and parallel).  I found street parking without difficulty.

I didn't buy anything ... yet.


-- Rachel Holmen

Past Event: Texture fans: there's a weaving show in Oakland today and tomorrow

The Conference of Northern California Handweavers (CNCH.ORG) is having its every-other-year conference this weekend, April 26 and 27, 2014, at the Marriott Convention Center in Oakland (roughly 12th and Broadway; easily walkable from 12th St. BART station).  I went yesterday and had fun looking at the exhibits and talking with vendors, including one that had an amazing Laotian loom on display.  Lots of fun fibers for sale, some of which might work well as embellishments for quilts.

Several vendors also offer interesting fabric dyes.

For cheap parking, try the lot at 7th and Washington Street -- $3 cash for the whole day.  (Enter the lot from 7th Street, which is one way heading .)

Click here for more details, and a $2 discount coupon.

-- Rachel Holmen

Photos from the 2014 Voices in Cloth quilt show

I've been told there is concern that some members may not want photos of their quilts displayed here on the EBHQ blog, or on the EBHQ website.  If you had an entry in our recent show, and if it is okay for me to post photos of it, please email me with your okay (and if possible, the entry number or name):  raeholmen@gmail.com.

Since the main EBHQ website has a long tradition of showing photos of MANY quilts from our past shows, I would like to see that tradition continued (although I do not post photos on the main website; the webmaster handles that).

The guild historian also likes to have photos from past shows.

-- Rachel Holmen

UPDATE:  show photos are now on the EBHQ website.

Past event: Today -- Sunday March 23 -- is the last day of our 2014 quilt show

Shawn Dubin's "You're In The Army Now" garment

We have over two hundred stunningly beautiful quilts on display, plus a number of wearables.  There's a special exhibit of items made in past workshops, to give you an idea of what fun it is to be a member of this active guild. 

Beautiful Women, by Barbara Bailey

Arleen Kukua made this stunner after taking a class with Rita Hutchens

Come and see!!!

WWII Home Front Challenge Gets Great Publicity

Check out the great media coverage EBHQ is getting in the San Jose Mercury, Oakland Tribune and the Contra Costa Times! It is online now, will be in all three papers on Saturday and possibly will get picked up by some of their smaller weeklies. Yay!!!

I Bay Area quilt show stitches WWII Home Front historyDesigns commemorating Rosie the Riveter and the rest of the Home Front movement during World War II are featured in one of the Bay Area's leading quilt shows, coming March 22-23 to Richmond. Read more:Home & Garden link: http://www.mercurynews.com/home-garden Story: http://www.mercurynews.com/home-garden/ci_25323247/stitching-wwii-home-front-history-into-quilts

The Quilt Show Newletter

Guess who has a write up in The Quilt Show Newsletter? 

Click Here!

       

Calling all Bay Area quilters and quilt lovers! Be sure to check out the upcoming Voices in Cloth exhibition to be presented by the East Bay Heritage Quilters ...

Past Event: More Volunteers Needed for Voices In Cloth

I just got off the phone with Leah Brown, who says there's still a need for extra volunteers especially Saturday morning and Sunday morning.  There are a variety of jobs, a few of which even let you sit down!  Mostly, though, we need people to help at the door -- put on the wrist bands, hand out programs -- and people to "white glove" throughout the exhibit.

(Due to changes in our setup procedure, however, we won't need NEARLY as many people on Friday as the guild has needed in the past.  We love the Craneway!)

So if you want to really be a PART of this wonderful show, email Leah at leahmbrown06@comcast.net

-- Rachel Holmen

Past Event -- Modern Quilts now showing in Piedmont (thru Feb. 23, 2014)

Check out this link (not by me):
http://daystake.blogspot.com/2014/01/new-kid-on-block-east-bay-modern-quilt.html

-- Rachel Holmen

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

Raffle quilts visit the KPFA Crafts Fair

Saturday Terri, Gwen, and Margo took the EBHQ Raffle Quilts to the KPFA Crafts' Fair in San Francisco. Fair-goers admired the quilts, bought raffle tickets, and were invited to come to the quilt show. Deanna & Mabry sold fabric postcards which were well received. We appreciated the generous space that KPFA provided us, where we were able to displaly six other quilts.

Past Event: Holiday Craft Fair is this Sunday!

The East Bay Heritage Quilters will host their annual Holiday Craft Fair for treasures made by hand to delight all ages.

Quilts, Jam and Jellies, Jewelry, Pincushions, Books, Ornaments,

Stationary, Place Mats, Quilts, Pillows, Scarves, Fabric Post Cards,

Dolls, Toys, plus much more.

Oh. . . and did we mention. . .  QUILTS!