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Things to Do & View
Quilters....
Have you seen a timely quilt-related online webpage?
A blog, a free pattern, a tutorial, an upcoming event?
Email the link to EBHQ Web Support and we can add to this list.
quilt by Nancy Bardach
quilt by Diane Goff
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In memory of EBHQ Founding member Roberta Horton, TheQuiltShow.com, has posted their 2014 Legends video tour of Roberta and Mary's house in Berkeley. View here... and if you have a tale to tell about Roberta, please share with us in the Member Forum. |
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EBHQ member Lynn Koolish has a Shibori Fabric dyeing class on C&T Publishing’s Creative Spark Online Learning Platform. The pre-recorded and self-directed course comes with Instructor and Student Community Discussions and access for 1 year. A very detailed supply list makes it easy to get everything you need to create your own amazing fabric at home. Link to class: https://creativespark.ctpub.com/courses/dynamic-dyes-shibori |
| April 1 through April 30 | GQCCC, the Guild of Quilters of Contra Costa County, is hosting their 2021 Virtual Quilt show. Take a Scavenger Hunt through eight quilt galleries, view their Opportunity Quilt that inspired a Turn to the Dark Side Challenge, watch a video presentation by the Featured Artists, two sisters who create art quilts and more... here |
| April 1 through 30 | The Foothill Quilters Guild is hosting their 2021 Virtual Quilt Show now. View their beautiful Opportunity Quilt designed by Katie Pasquino Musopust, over 200 quilts, tutorials, online demos and more here. |
| Ongoing.... | QuiltCon, an online show put on my the Modern Quilt Guild in Phoenix happened in Feb. but their gallery of 2021 show winners is now available online. Fascinating! |
| Ongoing.... | The Quilt Show has posted a memoriam page for Roberta Horton and video of a one-hour visit with Roberta and Mary in their Berkeley home. View the video here. If you would like to share a memory of Roberta on our website, visit the Member Forum. |
| Ongoing.... | BAMPA presented a conversation with Carolyn Mazloomi and Ora Clay, contextualizing the work of Rosie Lee Tompkins within African American quilting practice. Watch the video here. |
| February 24 through ??? | Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival - Online. This dynamic 32nd annual show will be available around the clock from start to finish, February 24-27, 2021. Just like PIQF there will be plenty of quilt galleries to view and virtual workshops to attend. Galleries still available for viewing 24/7 until? |
| Ongoing,,,, | Our January workshop instructor, EBHQ member Pati Fried, has kept herself busy during our Covid stay-at-home mandate creating a fun quilt covered with tiny houses. Watch her 6-minute YouTube video about Covid Houses. |
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Textile Talks features weekly presentations and panel discussions from the International Quilt Museum, Modern Quilt Guild, Quilt Alliance, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, Studio Art Quilt Associates and Surface Design Association. The programs are held online at 2 p.m. Eastern (11 a.m. Pacific) on Wednesday. Links to past talks available. |
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Gone But Never Forgotten in a Quilt Members of the national Women of Color Quilters Network draw on personal experiences of injustice, turning their needlework into symbols of liberation, resistance and empowerment. NY Times article. |
| Ongoing.... | Quilting in the Fast Lane-- the art of quilt making through time lapse photography. Watch Todd DuBay make quilts (cutting, designing, sewing, quilting, binding) in 5 minutes. Warning: very fast -- could make you dizzy! |
| Ongoing..... | The African American Quilt Guild of Oakland has numerous quilt Galleries on their website, highlighting quild quilts that have been displayed at local venues. Check out their newsletters too, which often include a Show & Tell gallery towards the end. |
| October 20, 2020.... | View a Q & A session with Sarah Bond, EBHQ's guest speaker on Monday night, October 26, and EBHQ member Lynn Koolish. They were interviewed in the Beehive by Anna of Quilt Roadies in July 2019, a few days before the Quilter's Affair quilt show in Sisters, Oregon. |
| October 14, 2020 until..... | Member Lynn Koolish was a recent guest on the Quilting Arts podcast with Susan Brubaker Knapp and Vivika DeNegre, discussing Opacity, Transparency & Layers. You can find the Quilting Arts podcast wherever you get your podcasts, or listen to it online at: QuiltingDaily. On this webpage you'll also a link to a Quilting Arts TV episode with Lynn that was recently broadcast on PBS and some examples of Lynn's work using this technique. |
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Running Stitch, A QSOS Podcast, is hosted by Janneken Smucker, Professor of History at West Chester University. Join us as we explore stories by quiltmakers by drawing from Quilters S.O.S. — Save Our Stories, the long running oral history project created by the nonprofit Quilt Alliance in 1999. |
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Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective at U.C. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. View a photo slide show of selected quilts, or take a gallery walk in a one-hour Zoom Virtual Tour narrated by BAMPFA Director and Chief Curator Larry Rinder. For those of us who didn't get there in person before COVID hit, here's a chance to see it. |