Our guild East Bay Modern Quilt Guild is throwing an opening party tonight (Saturday, Feb 2, 2013, 6-9pm) for our Stitch Modern quilt show at the Piedmont Center of the Arts. Come by and see my Geos quilt and 28+ other wonderful quilts created by our talented members. We will serve up some snacks and drinks and admission is free. More information on the Facebook Event page or on my previous blog entry.
I’m excited to announce that our local modern quilt guild, The East Bay Modern Quilt Guild, is having its second annual Stitch Modern Quilt Show at the Piedmont Center For The Arts (801 Magnolia Avenue, Piedmont, California 94611). The show runs from February 1st through 24th, 2013. Gallery hours are every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 12pm to 3pm. I’ll have my Geos quilt displayed.
Special Events:
Opening Reception 
The East Bay Modern Quilt Guild invites you to the Stitch Modern 2013 opening night.
Saturday, February 2, 2013 – 6pm to 9pm
Piedmont Center For The Arts (801 Magnolia Avenue, Piedmont, California 94611)
Lecture: Modern Improv Quilting and Process by Sherri Lynn Wood
An exciting lecture and trunk show by the artist, Sherri Lynn Wood on modern improvisational quilting and her process. $5 entry fee.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 – 7pm to 8:30pm
Piedmont Center For The Arts (801 Magnolia Avenue, Piedmont, California 94611)
Textile Design Panel Discussion and Q&A
What’s it like to be a fabric designer? Local Bay Area fabric designers (Ellen Heck of Cathy Heck Studios, Pati Fried, Sandy Klop of American Jane, Jennifer Moore of Monaluna, and Carol Van Zandt) tell us about their process and answer your questions.
Tuesday, February 9, 2013 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Piedmont Center For The Arts (801 Magnolia Avenue, Piedmont, California 94611)
Family Activity Day with Quilting Demos
Bring the kids for a fun day with textiles. There will be a scavenger hunt, fun crafts, and snacks! It will be a great opportunity to explore the world of fabric and thread with your whole family.
Sunday, February 10, 2013 – 12pm to 2:30pm
Piedmont Center For The Arts (801 Magnolia Avenue, Piedmont, California 94611)
Lecture: Threads of Transition, Patterns of Change: Rabari Appliquéd Textiles of India by Kristine Vejar for Stitch Modern 2013
Kristine Vejar of A Verb for Keeping Warm discusses the gorgeous, appliqued textiles of three nomadic camel herding tribes in India, known as Rabari.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 – 7pm to 8:30pm
A Verb for Keeping Warm (6328 San Pablo Avenue, Oakland, California 94608)
Capacity to this event is limited to 30 people. Please RSVP on the AVFKW website to save your spot!
East Bay Modern Sew SaturDay
Join the East Bay Modern Quilt Guild for a Sew Day! Bring your sewing machine or hand-work project and hang out with us as we sit and sew at the Stitch Modern 2013 exhibit!
Sunday, February 10, 2013 – 12pm to 3pm
Piedmont Center For The Arts (801 Magnolia Avenue, Piedmont, California 94611)
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Related links:
– Invitation to Stitch Modern 2013 from the East Bay Modern Quilt Guild
– The East Bay Modern Quilt Guild blog
– The East Bay Modern Quilt Guild on Facebook
– Piedmont Center for the Arts
– A Verb for Keeping Warm
– My Geos Quilt Process on Flickr
– Stitch Modern – The East Bay Modern Quilt Show – photo pool on Flickr
Here are some photos from the East Bay Modern Quilt Guild – October 2012 meeting that I attended this week.
You can also view the individual photos on my Flickr set “EBMQG – October 2012 Meeting“.
Last night, Carol Van Zandt gave members of the East Bay Modern Quilt Guild some fabrics from her new line called “Licorice Fizz” from Andover Fabrics.
THANK YOU CAROL!!!
I especially like the black and light grey fabrics that look like faces. They reminded me of the soot characters from Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away.
I looked online to see what they were called… and I discovered that a toy rat–which has been driving me crazy trying to figure out what anime he was from–is Bou Nezumi from Spirited Away!!!
THANKS AGAIN CAROL!!!… The soot characters, by the way, are called Susuwatari.
My quilt “Coded Paragraph” will be shown at the New Quilts of Northern California exhibit at the Pacific International Quilt Festival in the Santa Clara Convention Center (Santa Clara, California) from October 11-14, 2012. More information on their website.
Here are a few photos of my quilt’s progress on Flickr.
I’ve never been to PIQF and this is the first time I had a quilt accepted to be shown at an “International” quilt show… so I don’t know exactly what to expect. I heard that is a large show and you can easily spend most of the day there.
Please come if you have the chance. I’ll try to make it there Saturday, and maybe return Sunday if I don’t get to see everything.
I just rented two quilt-related DVDs from Netflix and found some others that may be interesting:
– America Quilts (2008)
– Amish & Mennonite Quilts Across America (2008)
– A Century of Quilts: America in Cloth (2006)
– The Art of Quilting (2001)
– Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
I was finally able to upload photos from May’s East Bay Modern Quilt Guild meeting onto my Flickr site.
Here’s the photoset: “EBMQG – May 2012 Meeting“… or you can click below to view a slideshow.
Stacey who normal runs the monthly meetings is in Virginia for a couple months, so Lauren ran the May meeting. Here are notes from the meeting: eastbaymodernquiltguild.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/may-meeting-sans-stacey/
A few more panels sewn…