REMINDER: Applications are open for the 1st ever Renegade Craft Holiday Sale in SAN FRANCISCO! The event will take place December 19 + 20 from 11am – 7pm at the Fort Mason Center Herbst Pavilion. If you’re interested in applying to be a vendor, applications will be available from August 21 – October 9.

Open Source Embroidery Show, Oct. 2 — Jan. 24, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, SF, CA, The Open Source Embroidery exhibition presents artworks that use embroidery, thread, and code as a tool for participatory production and distribution. Open Source Embroidery includes workshops and exhibitions that investigate how the open source software development model has been incorporated into the language of cultural participation. This major exhibition brings together individual and collectively made artworks by artists, makers, computer programmers and html users that explore the relationship between craft and code through social and digital networks. The works experiment with interdisciplinary approaches to modifying patterns, the DIY culture of hacking and sampling in sound, GPS and mobile technologies.

The de Young museum, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park
November 14, 2009 — June 6, 2010
This exhibition features approximately 48 full-size and crib quilts dating from the 1880s to the 1940s. Quilts made by girls and women of various Amish communities in Pennsylvania and the Midwest are visual distillations of their way of life. The Amish faith embodies the principles of simplicity, humility, discipline, and community, but their quilts are anything but humble. Using a rich color palette and bold patterns, these quilts are truly a unique contribution to American textile history. The quilts highlight the beauty and complexity of the abstract patterns.

Credit Line
Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The exhibition is supported by The Brown Foundation, Inc.

BRITEX FABRICS FALL SALE – 30% OFF*
All Fabrics – All Notions – All Remnants
Monday, Oct. 12 (10-7) – Tuesday, Oct. 13 (10-6)
* Sale limited to stock on floor
* Imported laces and velvets not included
* No special orders, mail or phone orders

Bernina will be demonstrating machine sewing techniques this coming Saturday from 10:30 to 12:30 at Britex Fabrics, 146 Geary St, SF CA 94108. 415-392-3906.

San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
August 4 through October 25, 2009
408.971.0323
The World According to Joyce Gross: Quilts from the Dolph Briscoe Center
A selection of 30 important historical quilts & quilt-related ephemera from the collection amassed by Joyce Gross over 35 years. Includes 30 important quilts dating from 1845 to 1980, with an emphasis on appliqué quilts.

San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
Aug 4 through Oct 25, 2009
Fabric Tattoos: Spirit of the The Mola
Molas are a traditional Panamanian textile created by the Kuna people of the San Blas islands and worn in their costumes. They are created using a unique reverse appliqué technique, where the layers of colored cotton cloth are turned under to reveal the colors in the layers below.

Annette Streyl is a German artist who makes amazing sculptures of urban landscapes that are knitted, and then stretched over metal frames. The Reichstag (built 1894), or seat of the German Parliament, is particularly impressive! Click on the without framework button to see the building fold.