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July 2005 Vol. 24. No. 7
Published by the Humboldt Senior Resource Center in Eureka, California. HSRC is a non-profit community-based organization offering services for senior citizens, multi-generational families and caregivers.
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Celebrating 30 Years of Quilting by Barbara Clark
When people come from all over California July 23 and 24 to see the biennial Heart of the Redwoods Quilt Show, this year held at Redwood Acres, they will be treated to viewing some 300 quilts from local and out-of-area artists. Special among the displays will be a selection from featured quilter Jeanne Cissna of Eureka, who will exhibit as the Redwood Empire Quilt Guild's Featured Quilter. In each quilt show, one local member of the guild is chosen to display an array of personal work. Cissna's exhibit will offer a diverse display of her talents, because unlike some quilters, she hasn't settled on one theme or style of quilting and stuck with it. In fact, since 1975, she may have tried more different techniques and ideas than many of her peers. She makes sure she takes as many quilt classes as she can. "I've never done a series of quilts on a theme," she said. "I just jump around. It's more fun." She said she tweaks traditional ideas a little bit - the traditional little red house pattern becomes a colorful Hawaiian village. Cissna likes ethnic fabrics from Egypt, Africa, Australia, Mexico and the U.S. Southwest. One of her quilts in the show is of Frieda Kahlo. Her house is testament to her craft, with eye-catching quilt art on every wall and door frame. Each of the 30-some years is represented there in colorful appealing fabric. Hints of local and national quilt artists show up in the wall hangings she started in their workshops. And some of the pieces are the work she bought from the teachers she most admires. She's made at least one full-size quilt for each of her four children and owes one more full-size quilt to her fifth grandchild. She always makes baby quilts as the babies are born, and the larger ones follow as they grow up. But her excitement is in smaller wall hangings and vests. She's made six vests, one of which she's wearing in the photo. She started her first quilt when she was still living at home, guided by an older woman who lived across the street from her mom's house who was a quilter. She didn't finish it. "I think I took the pattern out of the Montgomery Ward booklets. The blocks sat around for years. I didn't finish it until I got interested in quilting in 1975. I heard there was a class, and that was the time," she said. Heart of the Redwoods Quilt Show Redwood Acres Fairgrounds, Eureka Saturday July 23, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday July 24, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. • More than 300 quilts, wearables, and three-dimensional quilted objects • Featured Quilter: Jeanne Cissna • Auction of approximately 50 small quilts at 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 23, Home Economics Building • Quilting demonstrations, Sunday, July 24, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. • Raffle tickets for the Opportunity Quilt "Buds in a Basket" • 30s: Now and Then - antique quilts from the 1930s and today's quilts made from reproduction fabrics • Merchant mall selling quilting and sewing related items • Food items available from Classic Catering of McKinleyville • Antique quilts at the Clarke Museum in Eureka including a special display of the Ulysses S. Grant quilt |
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