{"id":7279,"date":"2020-01-22T17:27:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T01:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.road2ca.com\/blog\/?p=7279"},"modified":"2020-01-22T17:27:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T01:27:12","slug":"reminiscing-about-25-years-of-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/22\/reminiscing-about-25-years-of-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminiscing About 25 Years of Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Road to\nCalifornia\u2019s previous owner, Carolyn Reese, recently spent time reminiscing\nabout her 25 years with Road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Clever\nIdea<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Before\nCarolyn Reese purchased Road to California, she was a fabric shop owner in\nUpland, California. The Fabric Patch originally only carried fabrics for\ngarment sewing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then, in the early 1990\u2019s, quilting started becoming popular. Carolyn had never quilted before and she decided that she had better learn what it was all about. Her first class was a beginning quilting class taught by Eleanor Burns<\/a>. Later, she took several classes from Mary Ellen Hopkins<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a store\nowner, she had vendor booths in several quilt shows around the country\nincluding Paducah. One year, when she was manning her booth, she realized that\nmany of her California customers were there in Paducah shopping. Then and\nthere, the thought came to her: California needs a national quilt show. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About that\ntime, the owner of a quilt conference in Anaheim, California called Road to California, and approached\nCarolyn to see if she wanted to buy the conference. The conference already had\na good reputation and Carolyn thought it would be a great opportunity. So, she\nbought it and brought the conference to Ontario. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Road to California\nin Ontario<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In the\nbeginning, Carolyn kept Road to California as a 2-day, weekend conference in\nOctober, locating it at the Ontario Marriott. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few years\nlater, she moved the conference to the Ontario Airport Hilton, changed the date\nto January so it wouldn\u2019t conflict with any other quilt conference, and\nexpanded the conference to include a quilt show. During one of these new shows,\na representative from the then, under construction, Ontario Convention Center,\napproached Carolyn and asked if she would like to move her quilt show to the\nConvention Center. Carolyn toured the construction site and agreed for Road to\nCalifornia to be the Convention Center\u2019s first client.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first\nyear at the Convention Center, the show took up only about a third of the space\n(about the size of today\u2019s tent!!) and classes were held off-site. By the third\nyear, classes and vendors filled up the entire center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reminiscing\nAbout Road<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Carolyn\nshared that first and foremost, having her family \u2013 3 sons, their spouses and\nher grandchildren \u2013 work with her on the show was her greatest pleasure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She was\nproud that the show continued to grow and that she was able to add something\nnew every year. Carolyn noted, \u201cI never dreamed it would grow to be the second\nlargest quilt show in the country.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What were Carolyn\u2019s favorite Road highlights? Honoring veterans<\/a> \u201cwas really something\u201d and seeing her grandson, Matt, propose to Jennifer Bennett <\/a>was \u201cspecial.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And her\nlegacy? \u201cI gave quilters a chance to have a good time and forget their\nproblems\u2026I\u2019m glad I did it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carolyn said\nthat having her grandson, Matt, take on the show, was a deliberate choice. Matt\nhad just passed the bar exam and had done every job possible at Road. \u201cHe was\nqualified.\u201d She has been impressed with the changes he has made thus far in\ncontinuing to make the show relevant and modern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you,\nCarolyn Reese, for reminiscing about 25 years of Road to California and for\nleading the way for the \u201cBest in the West\u201d<\/em> Quilt Show.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today, Carolyn still sews. She is working on a quilt using blocks her mother made before she passed away.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Road to California\u2019s previous owner, Carolyn Reese, recently spent time reminiscing about her 25 years with Road. A Clever Idea Before Carolyn Reese purchased Road to California, she was a fabric shop owner in Upland, California. The Fabric Patch originally only carried fabrics for garment sewing. Then, in the early 1990\u2019s, quilting started becoming popular. […]<\/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-7279","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\/7279","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=7279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7283,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7279\/revisions\/7283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}