2009 Show Information (including classes) will be posted in early July 2008!
2008 Exhibits
Featured Artist: Cindy Needham, Chico CA
Cindy has been hand and machine quilting for the past 35 years, first falling in love with quilting while living in the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina and Virginia. She started collecting vintage linens about 20 years ago…her collection started small and then grew to the size that required garage cabinets to store them all! Cindy decided to start quilting on linens because she was looking for something different to quilt besides pieced quilt tops. She fell in love and it has been an obsession since then.
Her book, Wholecloth Linen Quilts, published by AQS, is scheduled for release in July 2007, and features many of her vintage linen quilts as well as her line of stencil designs that are carried through Quilting Creations, Inc. Golden Threads carries her exclusive line of wholecloth designs.
Cindy has been teaching Beginning Machine Quilting, Advanced Design and Vintage Linen workshops for about 7 years. She was invited to become one of the educators for Superior Threads which has provided the opportunity for her to speak and teach for them on a national level. She has also had several design features in Quilters Newsletter Magazine.
California State Fallen Heroes Quilt
The California State Fallen Heroes quilt will have its first major viewing at Road to California 2008. The California Fallen Heroes quilt was hand pieced by the California Chapters of the Home of the Brave Quilt Project and includes the names of all the 460+ California losses from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The main quilt measures 110 by 100 inches and is based on the Civil War (U.S. Sanitary Commission) soldier's quilt in the collection of the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, Redlands, California. To date, the Home of the Brave Quilt Project, with chapters in all 50 states and 3 foreign countries, have honored nearly 2700 fallen heroes with quilts.
For more information, contact Don Beld, National Coordinator at donbeld@pacbell.net.
Hoffman Challenge
Every year, a team from Hoffman Fabrics chooses an upcoming fabric design, and then issues a challenge to create original items using the fabric in quilts, clothing and accessories, and dolls. The challenge curator and a group of assistants jury the entries, and then a team of judges selects the award winners. We will have the winners from the quilt, wearable and doll divisions on display.
One Patch Scrap Quilts
Surprise yourself with the amazing variety of one-patch quilts! “Scrappy” is the style and stunning is the look. With just one or two simple shapes and a stash of fabric, a modern version of this classic quilt can be created. Bring back the nostalgia of sleeping underneath a handmade scrap quilt. A wonderful exhibit of 1880s to the 1940s of unfinished tops and quilts to what today’s quiltmakers are making with the same classic shapes.
Metro Textural
The Manhattan Quilters Guild, a group of professional quilt artists meeting in New York City, premiered MetroTextural: Art Quilts from the Manhattan Quilters Guild there in December of 2006. This new touring exhibition of twenty-one quilts celebrates the visual feast of New York City, from serendipitous juxtapositions of signage and advertisements to the surface ornamentation of historic buildings. The works created specifically for this exhibition include vibrant abstractions, architectural details, witty interpretations of the grid, and the visual rhythm of New York voices. Techniques range from scintillating piecework and illusionistic appliqué to painting and photo transfer. Diversity in the urban scene is a common thread that unifies the quilts in MetroTextural, which will tour through 2009.
The artists in MetroTextural are Ludmila Aristova, Teresa Barkley, Jeanne Lyons Butler, Beth Carney, Randy Frost, Iris Gowen, Tatiana Ivina, Emiko Toda Loeb, Ruth Marchese, Paula Nadelstern, Elizabeth Poole, Jeri Riggs, Diana Goulston Robinson, Robin Schwalb, Sandra Sider, Arlé Sklar-Weinstein, Daphne Taylor, Barbara Jade Triton, Ludmila Uspenskaya, Erin Wilson, and Adrienne Yorinks. Most of the artists in this group have had quilts juried into national exhibitions during the past decade, and several have had solo shows and retrospective exhibitions
$100,000 Quilting Challenge
The Challenge, sponsored by Reality Publishing LLC, encouraged quilters to submit show quality quilts, that were made within the last two years. A panel of judges selected the top 40 quilts for the final competition. This will be the first public exhibition of the winning quilt. All forty quilts from the competition will be on display at the showcase. The winning quilt will be auctioned, with the proceeds going to several charities.
Apron Chronicles:
A Patchwork of American Recollections
Aprons are a “tie” with our past. They trigger memories of times spent with your Mom watching her cook, or special moments spent in your Grandmother’s kitchen. EllynAnne Geisel, owner of Apron Memories and author of The Apron Book has captured the history and nostalgia of the apron. In this exhibit she will share vintage aprons from her private collection. EllynAnne will also make a personal appearance at the exhibit and her book will be available for sale. More information: www.ApronMemories.com
Everything's Coming up Barbie!
Mark invites you to design and make a quilt-inspired outfit for our favorite doll, Barbie®. For almost five decades, Mattel’s Barbie® has been a symbol of fashion and style for girls and women of all ages. Designers from more than fifty leading fashion houses, including Givenchy, Oscar de la Renta, and Christian Dior, have clothed her in their glamorous and dazzling creations, and now it’s your turn!
Using traditional sewing or art-quilt techniques, your design must include one or more traditional quilt blocks within the design, but other than that, the sky’s the limit in coming up with your original Barbie® doll outfit! So, go find your old Barbie® that you’ve packed away in the attic and start dreaming of the perfect quilt outfit, one that would even have Ken® drooling (not to mention Mark).
On display will be just a small preview of some of the fashion entries from quilters all over the world! Don’t be disheartened. The winner will not have been chosen and you will still have time to enter! For complete rules and a prize list, pick up a copy of Mark Lipinski’s Quilter’s Home or log onto www.quiltershomemag.com.
From Log Cabin to Magic Vine:
30 Years with Eleanor Burns and Quilt in a Day
Celebrate with Eleanor Burns and Quilt in a Day as we commemorate 30 years of strip piecing. It all started in 1978 with her first book Log Cabin, Quilt in a Day and since that time she has written over 85 other ‘how to’ quilt books.
Road to California has honored Eleanor by featuring many of the cover quilts in the entrance hallway of the Ontario convention Center. We invite you to take the time to enjoy all of them.
Eleanor, congratulations on 30 years!
Faculty Showcase
We salute the members of our distinguished Road faculty in this exclusive collection of their work. In quilts that are as diverse as their talents, our faculty offers attendees a host of inspiring design concepts and techniques.
The Four Elements: Air
The final group of quilts celebrating the four elements: water, fire, earth and air will be displayed. A group quilters with diverse backgrounds and interests take, in its turn, each element as their theme and create a group of quilts that are as diverse and unique as the quilters themselves. The group started as a group of Southern California artists but as several have moved it has become a national group of art quilters.
Robert Kaufman Quilt Quest
Using Tuscan Wildflower, an exquisite collection of classic European inspired scrolling designs consisting of ornate flowers, leaves, and butterflies with a light spring floral feel to it, quilters were asked to Think Outside the Block and think beyond the fabric and let their imagination go. Artists took their favorite traditional quilt block and gave them an exciting new look using color, texture, and fabric to create an original and innovative quilt design. The exhibit also includes small treasure miniature quilts and wild, whimsical, swank and stylish handbags
