Pepper Cory will be teaching 4 classes at Road to California 2020-25^th Anniversary Show which include two Handwork Classes:

On Wednesday, 3005G – Pocket Patchworks

And Thursday, 4008G – Its A Wrap — Introduction To Sashiko Stitching And Furoshiki

Pepper is also teaching two quilt classes where students need to bring their own sewing machine:

On Friday, 5007G – The Allsorts Quilt – A Very BIG Drunkard’s Path!

And on Saturday, 6007G – Plaid Is The New Black

Learning Quilt Techniques From Elderly Ladies

Pepper Cory’s quilt journey began in 1972 when she purchased an antique quilt at a rummage sale for $1.00. She knew right then that she wanted to make quilts, so she sought out experts around her to teach her the art. Those experts happened to be mostly elderly ladies. Since that humble beginning, Pepper began making her own quilts, writing books about quilts, designing needlework tools, and sharing her love of quilting by lecturing and teaching.

For seven years (1976 – 19983), Pepper Cory owned her own quilt shop, Culpepper’s Quilts, in East Lansing, Michigan. Today, Pepper is known for writing seven books, designing nine fabric lines, and creating more quilting designs than she can count! Her special quilting interests include scrap quilts, Southern antique quilts, the Japanese art of Sashiko (country quilting), hand quilting, and incorporating traditional designs in new combinations.

She will be traveling to Road to California from her home in North Carolina that she shares with her husband, Rod, and two cats who are her “quilt testers.”

Drunkard’s Path Obsession

Pepper Cory admits that she has had a “lifelong obsession with the Drunkard’s Path pattern.” This obsession has fueled many of her quilt designs. Pepper’s first quilt with large Drunkard’s Path templates, Eclipse, is a “somewhat scrappy quilt” centered on a dark pieced circle in the middle of the quilt. That is the quilt she will be teaching at Road 2020 on Friday along with Meteor Shower, which resulted from experimenting with large templates and combining with Drunkard’s Path units as well as other patchwork patterns.  

This Friday class is titled The Allsorts Quilt. Allsorts was named after a British candy mixture and came about after Pepper found two pieces of coordinating prints that she loved but only had one and a half yards of each print. In order to make a queen-size quilt, she added nine solid color fabrics and paraded them across the patterned background and even out into the border.

Pepper At Road 2020

Pepper Cory will start her time at Road 2020 serving as one of the three judges for the Quilt Contest where she will assist in determining who will win the $92,000 in cash prize money. She says that she is “eagerly” looking forward to seeing the quilts that are entered from all over the world. “Road has a reputation for attracting really fine quilts and I always sense that I’m seeing quilts that will set trends and inspire others.”

She is looking forward to teaching and is hoping that her students “have a good time learning. Instilling confidence is my main objective. If they get to a real finish that’s great but I’m also open to communicating with students after the class.”

Pepper is also looking forward to seeing her friends and reconnecting with students from other classes. Oh– and she is planning to go through Whataburger too!

You can read more about Pepper Cory on her website.

Did you know that Moda Fabrics is actually 3 companies? Moda Fabrics, Moda Home + Gifts, and United Notions. The company started in 1975 as United Notions and today is known as an international manufacturer and distributor of fabrics and finished goods. They are proud of their excellent customer service as they continue to strive to be creative leaders on the cutting edge of the industry.

Moda at Road 2020

Road to California is thrilled that Moda Fabrics will have a presence at the 25th Anniversary Show happening January 23-26, 2020.

They will have a booth in the main Exhibit Hall, sharing some of their most popular quilting fabrics and inspirational works from some of their 50 designers.

Road had the pleasure at Quilt Market in Houston last October to meet a couple of these designers such as Ruby Star Society

And Laura Muir. Laura Muir says that she tries “really, really hard” to express positivity with her audience.

Laura grew up sewing and quilting and branched out in fine art, expressing a joyful, happy attitude the Laura says the world “needs more of.” That is why she created her Create Joy Project line, to share her passion with as many people as possible.

Moda designer, Jen Kingwell, will be teaching at Road 2020 and Moda personalities French General and Primitive Gatherings will be vendors at the Show.

Showcasing Exceptional Talent

Moda Fabrics leads the way with innovative fabrics designed in-house and by many of the industry’s most popular designers and creative talents. One of those creative talents, Robin Pickens, will be on hand at Road 2020 to share her fabrics and designs.

Robin’s background is in art. She was a broadcast designer with Warner Brothers before moving to the northeast United States. Her first foray into working with fabric happened when she entered one of the weekly Fabric 8 competitions on Spoonflower. Winners of this competition were invited to work with Moda in developing their own fabric line. Robin won the competition in 2015. Her first line of fabric was called Poppy Mae, a botanical scrapbook featuring (you guessed it) poppies.

Robin was familiar with quilts because her mom was a quilter. In the Fall of 2015, Robin went to her first Quilt Market in Houston. This gave her the chance to talk with other fabric designers. After the show, she went home and began making her own quilts. She showed those first quits at the 2016 Quilt Market.

At Road 2020, Robin is looking forward to attending her first Road to California, speaking to fans, meeting new friends, and talking about her fabric lines, Abby Rose, Definite Plus jelly rolls, her Thatched Basic line, and her latest patterns, Bird Talk.

What does Robin hope to share with our Road attendees? “I hope to pass on the joy of (my) activities…by providing patterns, designs, color, ideas, and inspiration. My heart blooms with color and I hope (they) will also enjoy my designs as part of (their) own creative journey. I love to see images of things (others) make with my fabrics and patterns.”  

To learn more about Moda Fabrics, please visit their website.

Debby Brown will be teaching 4 Classes at Road to California 2020-25th Anniversary Show:

On Monday, 1002C – Template Tantrum using the new, Handi Quilter Capri longarm machine

On Tuesday, 2002C – Essential Echo

On Wednesday, 3004C – More Or Less Quilting

And on Thursday, she is repeating Template Tantrum, 4005C

Debby Brown is thrilled to once again teach at a prestigious show like Road. “I’m over the moon to be a part of Road’s 25th Anniversary Show because it’s going to be a huge party and parties mean that there might be cake!”

Another reason why Debby might be thrilled to be at Road is to escape the home renovations happening at her house located 70 miles north of New York City. In September, a giant Beech tree crushed her home. Then, in October just before she left for Houston to attend Quilt Market, the ceiling tiles in her guest bathroom came crashing down.

Debby’s Quilt Journey

Debby Brown made her first quilt when she was pregnant with her oldest child, which was 33 years ago.  She traced a cereal-box cardboard square onto dressmaking scraps using a ballpoint pen, cut them out with sewing shears, and sewed them together using a 5/8” seam.  She layered that top with a percale sheet for backing and the thickest polyester batting she could find.  Then she tied the corners using embroidery floss and finally turned the backing toward the front of the quilt, because “I’m fancy like that.”

A few years later, Debby took a quilt class at her local quilt shop, the Quilt Basket in Wappingers Falls, NY. They introduced her to the ¼” seam and the “magical” rotary cutter. At that point, she gave up all other crafts and has been hooked on quilting ever since. 

Debby remembers, “As I finished my new! Improved! quilt tops, I fell in love with the texture and design that quilting added.  I hand-quilted scores of quilts for myself and others, bought and taught myself to use a longarm machine, and eventually mastered home machine quilting while truly enjoying every way that quilting added texture to quilts. I now design and piece quilts just so that I can quilt them.”

Getting Past Health Struggles

Debby deals full-time with a rare disease called Relapsing Polychondritis, an autoimmune disease that attacks and destroys cartilage in her body.  Cartilage is in eyes, ears, nose, joints, heart, blood vessels, trachea, esophagus, and most other places in the human body.  Debby says she is “so grateful that there are infusions and medications to help slow the progression of this disease.  Quilting gets me through the hardest days, and it’s my joy to share this quilting with others to help them get through their hard days, whatever the cause may be.”

On her bad days, she might get a wheelchair ride through an airport, but on her good days, she enjoys chopping wood.  She says that it is great exercise, excellent for stress relief, and has been a great way to get revenge on the tree that crushed her house. 

Quilt Teacher

Debby has two favorite parts of quilting – one is sitting home, alone, stitching whilst listening to audiobooks and the other is spending time with dozens of quilters in the classroom.  While she can’t be in crowds all the time, she can’t stand to be alone all of the time either.  That’s why she says that she has “the best job on earth because it allows me to alternate my favorite parts of quilting to stitch together my great life!”

She started teaching machine quilting classes over 15 years ago at her local quilt shop.  Soon after, she began teaching for Handi Quilter and then at quilt shows.

She wants her students at Road 2020 “to gain a few skills and a lot of confidence.  I hope they leave class knowing that they can pick up a UFO, choose a simple machine quilting pattern, and finish their quilt!” She is especially excited to have her students try out Handi Quilter’s new Capri longarm machine.

To learn more about Debby Brown, please visit her website.

Jenny Doan, of Missouri Star Quilt Co., first came to Road to California in 2018. She taught several quilt classes featuring her favorite design, the half-square triangle, and she delivered an inspiring evening trunk show. The response of having her at the show was so tremendous, that we knew that Road to California would be inviting her back again in the future.

Road to California 2020

What better time to have Jenny Doan return than at Road to California’s 25^th Anniversary Show celebration, happening January 23-26, 2020!!!

Once again, she will be teaching classes. For 2020, her sold out classes, Happy Trails, will feature Jenny demonstrating how to make a super easy Happy Trails quilt out of 5-inch squares of precut fabric (charm packs). This project is based off the old classic known as the Snail Trail Block, aka Monkey Wrench, Indiana Puzzle, Journey to California, and Whirligig, but Jenny’s version is “sew” much easier!!!

And for the first time, Missouri Star Quilt Co. has partnered with Road to California to have Jenny present her one-of-a-kind event, Jenny on the Road, exclusively for Road to California guests. This special production will be given twice: on Friday, January 24^th at 7:00 PM (Class 9500D) and on Saturday, January 25^th at 8:30 AM (Class 9600D). A seat for either presentation can be reserved for $75.00 on our registration site.

Because of the special nature of this event, separate wristbands will be issued to attend and is not included with a regular admission to Road. The bracelets will be available for pick up on site at the Ontario Convention Center. Replacement wristbands for Jenny on the Road will not be available.    

Jenny on the Road

Jenny on the Road was started shortly after Jenny Doan visited Road to California in 2018 as a way for Jenny to get out and meet more of her fans by going to areas near where they lived and quilted. It also provided opportunities for Missouri Star Quilt Co. employees to travel and see the face of their company in action, delivering quilt tips, stories, and inspiration.

At Road to California’s exclusive Jenny on the Road, attendees will be finding out, “What happens if?” Using just a few simple flips and turns, Jenny’s quick and easy methods will have guests empowered to try something new. Along with learning many valuable tips and tricks for quilting, there will be lots of laughs and maybe even a few tears shed as Jenny shares the story of what got her started in quilting and how Missouri Star Quilt Co. came to be. Learn how what started with one family, has expanded to touch the hearts of many and has created a family of quilters around the world!

Everyone who attends Jenny on the Road will also be receiving an awesome Swag Bag with custom Missouri Star merchandise (a $55 Value). 

Then, immediately following Jenny on the Road, a special pop-up shop for only Jenny on the Road participants, will be stocked with affordably priced quilting supplies from Missouri Star Quilt Co. including kits that are available only with Jenny on the Road. Much of the merchandise found in the pop-up shop is not available in their regular vendor booth at the show.

Having Jenny Doan of Missouri Star Quilt Co. at Road to California 2020 is definitely something to celebrate!!!

Margaret Willingham will be teaching 3 classes at Road to California 2020 – 25^th Anniversary Show:

Two half day classes utilizing the same pattern:

Whimsical Lollipop Flower Block: Hand Reverse Applique With App, a handwork class on Friday Night (5069C) and on Saturday Night, Lollipop Garden Quilt, Flower Block (6068C) which is a machine reverse applique class.

And an all-day class, 6025C – Appassionata: Machine Reverse Appliqué on Saturday

Margaret Willingham has been a quilter for 25 years, although she started sewing when she was 10 years old. As she says, the only differences are “the seam allowances are narrower, and you iron them differently.” Margaret “properly” started quilting, when she joined a quilt group at her church in Aurora, Colorado. She learned by watching and asking questions. lf she liked a pattern, she would read it and figure it out, usually changing it around to make it her way. She considers herself “basically self-taught with some help from my friends.” Margaret never took a workshop herself until she got a longarm sewing machine.

Quilting Mentors

Margaret Willingham taught dance for 40 years. She compares quilting to dance: they are both about foundational techniques. “lf you have those foundational skills, everything else is just patterns, and how you apply those techniques.”

The most influential person on Margaret’s quilting journey was Mary Wiens who lead the quilting group at her church where Margaret started. Margaret said that Mary “was very experienced and always encouraging. Her most negative comment was, ‘You could do that, if you wanted to.’” Quilting for Mary was all about fun, enjoyment and fellowship.

Foundational books that she still owns and uses include Quilts! Quilts! Quilts! The Complete Guide to Quiltmaking by Diana McClun and Laura Nownes. (former featured artists at Road to California) and The Quilter’s Pocket Reference An Easy Guide to Yardage and More by Peggy Scholley.

Margaret has learned various methods for hand applique, including needle, and is inspired by the work of hand quilters on Facebook, like Andrea Stracke and Elsie Campbell, and the Broderie Perse of Cynthia Collier.

Quilting Space

Margaret has basically two work areas at home. Upstairs, she has her regular chair in the family room where she does her hand stitching and hand quilting.

Her studio space downstairs in an unfinished basement. It’s unfinished, because as her business has grown, there are no walls in her way. She has her sewing machine, a drawing table, cutting table, a dresser and cabinet for fabric, drawers and racks for thread, her “new” longarm (they are still getting acquainted), iron and the like, and lots of shelves. As her business grows, she just reinvents her layout and storage.

Teaching

Margaret Willingham has been teaching quilting classes for 20 years and teaching hand and machine reverse applique and paper-piecing for 8 years.

She loves demystifying reverse applique and seeing her student’s lightbulb go off!  Margaret says, “Everybody thinks it’s so hard and that they can’t do it. All day long in my booth I hear, ‘The patterns are so beautiful. lt’s too hard. I can’t do it.’ And it simply isn’t true! lt takes time, like anything in quilting, and it will take some practice, but it isn’t hard. Reverse applique has a beauty that draws you in and has a big WOW factor for the time spent!

Margaret hopes her students at Road will enjoy their journey: a journey of excellence, not perfection; a journey of joy. She thinks it’s an honor to be involved in such a prestigious show like Road to California as it celebrates its silver anniversary.

To learn more about Margaret Willingham, visit her website.

For almost 30 years, Sulky of America Co-founders, Joyce and Fred Drexler, have been insistent about maintaining the very highest quality with the 4,000 products that bear the Sulky label. According to Fred, “educating consumers has always been a top priority and our extremely strong focus on education through the years has caused Sulky to become the most recognized and asked-for name in decorative threads.”

Committed to quality, Sulky of America only uses raw rayon fibers made by ENKA in Obernburg, Germany. They have been tested and proven to be the very highest quality raw goods produced anywhere in the world.

Sulky also maintains a high community involvement presence. Fred is proud and honored to have had a 44-year involvement with Rotary International, being involved in hundreds of local community projects. Following Hurricane Andrew in 1992, Sulky invited sewers all over America to “Share their Stash” with Hurricane Andrew victims. Thousands of people ultimately did, which netted two full semi-trailer loads of sewing machines, fabric, patterns and every other imaginable sewing tool and supplies. Their caring ways continue to support community outreach.

Introducing Filaine

At Road to California 2020 – 25^th Anniversary Show, Sulkyis looking forward to introducing one of their newest thread lines – Filaine – to Road’s guests.

Filaine is a 12 wt. acrylic thread that comes in 129 colors.

It produces a stitch that mimics vintage handwork, with a nubby textured feel and appearance.

Organ Needles

Sulky of America recently became a distributor of Organ Needles, a company founded 100 years ago in Tokyo, Japan. Did you know that all Japanese-made sewing machines (like Janome, Juki, Brother and Babylock) are “born” with Organ Needles?

After the original needles were used up, consumers had a hard time finding replacement ones.  So, Organ Needles developed their exclusive Eco Packs for consumer use. These eco-friendly Eco Packs allow for easy visibility and reusable storage, providing a quick way to identify new and used needles by location in the pack.

Organ Needles offers a wide variety of needles to meet every sewing need.

Sulky at Road 2020

Not only is Sulky a vendor for the 25^th Anniversary Show, Road to California is honored to have them as a Silver Sponsor for the Show.

To learn more about Sulky of America, please visit their website.

Nancy Eha will be teaching 4 beading classes at Road to California 2020 – 25^th Anniversary Show:

On Thursday, 4011C – Happy The Hedgehog

On Friday, 5010C – Inky The Octopus

On Saturday, 6010C – Penny Rug Poises That Sparkle

And on Sunday, 7010C – Beaded Kaleidoscopes

While Nancy Eha is a quilter and quilt teacher, she was doing beading way before she was introduced to quilting.

Inspiration vs. Meditative Beading

Recognized as a national beading teacher, Nancy most enjoys the inspiration process of thinking of a beading idea and fine tuning it before doing the actual beading.  Nancy says, “The inspiration process is exciting and invigorating, always so many possibilities of what I could make.  By contrast the actual beading process is meditative.  The repetition of picking up beads on a hand sewing needle, and hearing the thread pass through the fabric.  Time goes by so quickly beading and the process is so relaxing!”

Nancy’s quilting and beading style is most influenced by Crazy Quilts, specifically Victorian Crazy Quilts because she loves all the fine details of stitching both imagery and the opulent embroidery on the seams of fabric segments.  Nancy shares, “Obviously, working with very small beads I relish detail.  When I saw my first crazy quilt I thought, ‘Oh this is such beautiful stitchery, now how can I replicate that stitchery with beads?’ My second book, Bead Creative Like Crazy: Beading Inspired by Crazy Quilts is the result of endless hours of exploring that question.

Creative Space

Nancy has two side by side rooms as her workspace in the lower level of her home. One is her beading studio, the other the quilting studio. Both have large windows that look out onto her wooded property and a small lake. White tail deer and wild turkeys provide Nancy companionship. Nancy believes that other quilters might be tempted to take the wall down between the rooms, but she has decided to keep it intact. Both rooms have office cabinetry and tables that are modular and not attached to walls.  It allows her to rearrange the furniture to her liking, and has plenty of storage for her millions of beads, teaching supplies, and quilting supplies.

What is her favorite tool? “Size 12 sharps needle for hand beading and the only threader available that actually can thread fine needles.”

Teaching Beading Classes

Nancy Eha has been teaching nationally over 20 years. Regarding teaching, Nancy says,” I love my students and I enjoy teaching beading skills and techniques to make time spent beading pleasurable.  Many students have hesitations and self-doubt as to what they perceive as the complexity of beading when they enter the classroom.  Thus, I break down every technique into small teachable steps along with showing videos of my hands beading each step.  This assures that even an absolute beginner can be successful. After an hour or so the self-doubt has left the room and shouts of glee such as “I can do this, it is not so difficult’ can be heard.

Nancy will be traveling in January from the Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota airport to teach at Road 2020.  While she has been a part of other Road to California shows, she is looking forward to participating in Road’s 25^th Anniversary Show to “acknowledge what a great show it truly is and celebrate longevity for putting on such a great show!” She is hopeful that her students will gain both the skills and the confidence to use what they learn in class not only in her class but in their future projects as well.

To learn more about Nancy Eha, please visit her website.

Pat Harrison will be teaching 5 classes at Road to California 2020:

Two classes are traditional quilting classes:

On Wednesday, 3008C – Trip Around The World Quilt

On Thursday, 4013C – Easy Peasy Circles Quilt

Two classes are Technology Classes, utilizing EQ8 Software

On Friday, 5012C – EQing The Day Away – Beginner

On Saturday, 6013C – EQing The Day Away – Intermediate

And a class that is a combination of lecture, samples, and hands-on practice of basic binding techniques

Sunday, 7012C – Binding 101 And Beyond

When Road asked Pat Harrison what got her into quilting, she replied, “By teaching every 7th grader in the town of Narragansett, Rhode Island to make a flip and sew log cabin pillow as a beginner Home Economics project.” Now that is quite the start to a quilting journey!!!

Pat Harrison has developed a name for herself with EQ8 quilt design. She says that “designing original quilts in EQ8, especially the color play and secondary design possibilities, and then making that design into a quilt is her favorite part about the quilting process.

What is EQ8?

Pat Harrison as a Creator and Teacher

Currently, Pat Harrison’s favorite quilting tool is her Innova longarm which she keeps in her “wonderful studio created from a 2-car garage with a high ceiling for quilt display and an airy feel. Plenty of windows that look out on a rural setting, from plenty of green in the summer to my beloved snowball effect in the winter.” Dreamy.

A quilt teacher for over 25 years, Pat likes seeing the joy in the eyes of a student when they realize that they can achieve super results with her techniques. She loves sharing all the tips she has accumulated over the years of being in the craft. At Road 2020, Pat Harrison hopes her students gain confidence in themselves and their skills, expansion of their color knowledge and use of color.

Pat will be traveling almost 3,000 miles – by air — to teach at Road to California’s 25^th Anniversary Show. She is “excited” to be a part of this celebration and is looking forward to sharing her skills and teaching talents with “a whole bunch of new students.”

To learn more about Pat Harrison, visit her website.

Marilyn Larson won $1,500 for Best Piecing from Sponsor, American Professional Quilting Systems for her quilt, Aurora.

Quilting is in Marilyn Larson’s blood.

When she left home to start her teaching career, Marilyn Larson’s mother took from the closet a Dresden plate quilt made by Marilyn’s grandmother Alice and their neighbor Netty Boyer.  Up until that moment, Marilyn had never seen that quilt before and it “took my breath away.”  The quilt was made from 1930’s feed sacks on muslin, both hand and machine pieced, appliquéd, and hand quilted.  Marilyn decided then that she “had to learn this beautiful craft.”

Two Time Winner at Road to California

Marilyn’s very first entry in a Road to California to California quilt contest was an appliqué wall quilt entitled, “Inspired by Alice” and was awarded a first place ribbon!!!  

The inspiration for Best Piecing Winner, Aurora, was an Edyta Sitar pattern, Bethlehem Star. It excited Marilyn because of the “glow” blocks.  Marilyn worked on color placement using batiks and decided to add a pieced border comprised of the same diamond shape that she used in the star design.  This pattern was also selected so that her friend, Barb Simons, could have the necessary space to add her amazing quilt stitches.

The making of quilt top took 1 year but then she ran out of the red and rust colored batik fabrics for the pieced border. Refusing to give up on her pieced border idea, Marilyn searched for 3 years until she found fabric that was similar enough to use.  So ,in all,  it took approximately 5 years to piece the top and then another year for Barb to do the quilting.  

Marilyn says her major lesson with  was to block the top before sewing on the binding.  She had sewn on the binding, blocked the quilt and discovered the red fabric bled to the backing.  Marilyn had to put the quilt into a bath of synthropol to remove the bleed.  Then dye was removed but the quilt shrunk, causing the edge to ripple.  Off came the binding so that Marilyn could get the edge to lay flat and then sew on the binding for a second time.

Winning News and Future Plans

Marilyn received word that she had won Best Piecing while living at her winter home in Arizona.  Marilyn commented, “I am very proud of myself and pleased to receive this award.  My trying to achieve perfection has paid off!  I am still happy dancing.” 

She planned to use her award money to purchase quilting fabric and supplies.

What are Marilyn’s future quilting plans? “As I live and breathe, I quilt.  I expect to continue to produce quilt tops and hopefully enter more quilt shows.  My newest frontier in quilting is long arm quilting.  There are so many avenues to explore with this hobby: new techniques to learn, new tools to try, beautiful fabrics to work with, patterns to try, designing, applying what one learns from other quilters, etc.  Since I love traditional patterns, that is where my focus will most likely remain.”

Roadies Give Back is Road to California’s official philanthropy project. Held Saturday night of the show, quilters are given the opportunity to give back to Road’s local community by joining together to make charity quilts for cancer patients at the Robert and Beverly Lewis Cancer Care Center at Pomona Valley Hospital.

For 2020, Road’s 25^th Anniversary Show, Roadies Give Back, will be happening Saturday, January 25^th from 6:00 – 9:00 PM.   

This volunteer-led event, gives Road attendees a chance to meet other conference goers, participate in a worthwhile activity, and fill up an otherwise empty Saturday night. Everything that is needed for the quilters to work on the quilts – sewing machines, thread, batting, irons, and backing are all donated for the activity by some of Road’s vendors.

Robert and Beverly Lewis Cancer Care Center

Why did Road choose cancer patients at the Robert and Beverly Lewis Cancer Center for their official philanthropy? Because we have found that many quilters have been touched by cancer- either themselves or a loved one- including many of our Road to California workers. In addition, Road has a connection to the Center. Road’s owner, Matt Reese’s mother, Shellee, is the Administrative Director of the Cancer Program. She has been able to arrange for the finished charity quilts from Roadies Give Back to be delivered personally to cancer patients.  

How You Can Be Involved

Road to California 2020-25^th Anniversary Show will be the third time Roadies Give Back has been offered.  To date, almost 200 charity quilts have been donated to the Robert and Beverly Lewis Cancer Care Center.

There are many ways you can be involved:

Before the Show

Make Blocks.  Make as many blocks as you can and bring them to the show. Each block takes 4 Charm Squares to make. Please use a black background. We are also accepting finished quilt tops.

If you can’t attend Road to California 2020, you can also mail in your blocks to our office: 1160 N. Dewey Way – Suite A, Upland, CA 91786

Register to Volunteer at Roadies Give Back #9600C. Two rooms will be dedicated to this charity quilt activity. Sewing machines for the event are being donated by one of Road’s Sponsors, Moore’s Sewing. Volunteers will be needed to arrange quilt squares, sew squares into rows and make quilt tops. Once quilt tops are completed, quilt sandwiches need to be put together.

During the Show

Turn in Finished Blocks and Quilt Tops. They will be collected at South Information Desk.

Join in the Fun!! Volunteer to be one of the sorters, planners, or sewers. Many helping hands are required for Roadies Give Back!!!

Enjoy Some Swag. Our Road Volunteers are putting together awesome swag bags for participants as well as hosting giveaways throughout the night.

Meet New Charity Quilt Minded Friends. What better way to spend a Saturday night than with other quilters who share your passion of giving back.

Of all the special events planned for our 25^th Anniversary Show, Road feels Roadies Give Back is the most important. Says Karen, one of our past volunteer coordinators, “It lets people with cancer know that a lot of people care about them, are rooting for them, are praying for them and are hoping that they get better.”

Road sincerely appreciates your consideration for this event. If you have any questions regarding Roadies Give Back, please reach out to our volunteer coordinators at  roadiesgiveback@gmail.com