Edna Goes to Road to California!

Edna here.  As you may know, I live in Northern California.  I visit my quilt posse in Idaho a couple of times a year.  Our friend, C, is a mad quilter.  She has only attended local quilt shows and the one in Sisters, which is fairly close.  She submitted an art quilt piece to 'Road to California', and it was accepted.  This is a big show in Ontario, Calif.  She decided to go to the show, so I met her there and we had so much fun!

We were there for a few days and took a couple classes.   Following are photos we took at the show.

This is the huge corridor outside the gigantic rooms that have the vendors and the quilt show.  Vendors in one big room, quilt show in the other, plus more quilts hung everywhere.  Lots of local quilt groups have their own displays, which are amazing.

Examples are Santa Clara Valley Quilt Association, Inland Empire Modern Quilt Guild, So Cal/So Nev Regional SAQA group, and Glendale Quilt Guild.  I have no idea whose quilts are hanging from the ceiling.

A favorite by someone in the Glendale Quilt Guild.

This is at the Santa Clara Valley Quilt Assoc, 50th Anniversary Challenge.  All the quilts were golden yellow.

This was my favorite golden yellow quilt.

This is a Round Robin quilt made by nine quilters, each adding a border around the previous quilter's creation.  It was a challenge by the Inland Empire Modern Quilt Guild.

It is one of my favs, so C snapped a photo of me and this amazing quilt!

There was a marvelous display by the So Calif/So Nevada SAQA Region, of quilts they created as inspired by their favorite artists, such as Jackson Pollack, Georgia O'Keefe, Pablo Picasso, Kehende Wiley, Anne Bellas, and others.  A couple of my favs:  above Jackson Pollack; below: Anne Bellas

And so many other amazing pieces in the show:

This one looks amazing!

It looks more amazing with me posing in front of it!

Carlton Brown is one of my favorite abstract art quilters.  I was so pleased to see one of his creations up close and personal.

I really like this quilt of protest.  Things are so crazy in our country right now.  Even though the quilts in this exhibit were mostly done in 2017, it speaks extremely well to what is happening right now.

To enlarge, click on the photo.  Then you can read the words on this flag quilt. Or look at all the photos close-up!

Yes, this is a lengthy blog post.  SO MANY AMAZING QUILTS AND THINGS!!!      We also walked between the show and the hotel and to a restaurant or two.

Oh!  There were also exhibits in the section with the vendors, and they included a SAQA Display of Primal Forces: Wind        Over-the-top!  I will let C post all those on her quilting blog, but here is one:

Then, there was the Cherrywood Challenge:  The Abyss

There are 12 quilts in this photo.  There were probably over 100 on display.  

This was the last day of the show.  We were getting ready to walk back to the hotel.  It was so much fun!  We met so many friendly people like Cindy and Ann!