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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAn\ninnovative sewer since she was a young girl, Eleanor self-published her first\n\u201cQuilt in a Day\u201d book in 1978, igniting a quilting revolution. She introduced\nan incredibly rapid stitching system, applying the method of assembly line\nsewing to piecework. Her concise, step-by-step directions were easy to grasp,\nallowing anyone to be successful at making a quilt. Eleanor Burns is credited\nfor giving quilt makers techniques that compacted months into merely a day, a\nquilt in a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through her Quilt in a Day<\/a> enterprise, Eleanor has become a prolific author (she has written over 80 books), a revered teacher trainer, popular television personality, and celebrated industry role model. In 1990, Eleanor pioneered the way people view quilt making with television. Her Quilt in a Day TV series began airing on PBS and is still broadcasting nationwide and abroad, even teaching in Japan. Adding to all of that, she has developed her own \u201cSignature\u201d fabric lines, several special edition sewing machines, and has received numerous awards and recognition for her lifetime of achievements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2019, Eleanor celebrated her 40th year in quilting at Road to California 2019 by headlining two stage shows, Forty Fabulous Years With Eleanor<\/em>, and attending a special luncheon with Marianne Frasca-Troccoli who won the Grand Prize of our Road 2019 Contest.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n At Road to\nCalifornia 2020-25th<\/sup> Anniversary Show, there will be more\nopportunities for Roadies to see Eleanor up close:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nTraveling Quilters and Road to California are teaming up to offer two\npre-show bus tours<\/strong> that will be going to the San Diego area. The first stop\nis Eleanor Burn\u2019s Quilt in a Day campus in San Marcos. Guests will have time\nto shop<\/strong> before and after a taping of Eleanor\u2019s show<\/strong> where they will\nbe in the audience. Eleanor will be joining the tours for lunch catered by\nPanera<\/strong>. Guests will also get a behind-the-scenes tour<\/strong> at Quilters\nParadise where Quilt in a Day\u2019s pre-fused, laser cut kits are produced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also\nincluded in the bus tour is a stop in Temecula to visit one of Road to\nCalifornia\u2019s Sponsors, Primitive Gatherings. Their shop features wool kits along\nwith wool, primitive, reproduction, and a wide selection of bright,\ncontemporary-to-modern fabrics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Eleanor will be teaching two classes at Road to California 2020 on Thursday and Friday night. Blended Braid<\/em> is a three-hour class for beginning to intermediate levels utilizing cutting skills for creating with 2-1\/2\u201d strips. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Registration is now open for the Thursday Class, 4071C, and Friday Class, 5070C, on our registration site<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Road to California\u2019s 25<\/a>th<\/a><\/sup> Anniversary Show<\/a> just keeps on getting better and better. See you there!!! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eleanor Burns is a quilting legend with a huge fan base. An innovative sewer since she was a young girl, Eleanor self-published her first \u201cQuilt in a Day\u201d book in 1978, igniting a quilting revolution. She introduced an incredibly rapid stitching system, applying the method of assembly line sewing to piecework. Her concise, step-by-step directions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6883,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822\/revisions\/6883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Eleanor](\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/EB3.jpg\")
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