I've been a member of the East Bay Heritage Quilters for about 10 years, but this was the first time I've help set up the massive show they put on every other year, "Voices in Cloth," which happens this weekend. Set-up volunteers (and you have to do some volunteer time somewhere, somehow, if you want to have a quilt in the show) had to be at the Craneway Pavillion, at the Richmond Marina, by 9 am on Friday. This vast room was part of a Ford Plant during World War II. The rain poured down. Brooks Island, just off shore, was visible through the fog, and by afternoon, so was San Francisco. It's a spectacular setting.
Between 9 am and 2: 30 pm, this enormous room was transformed by many quilter-volunteers into a full-fledged quilt show ringed by numerous vendor booths. I went with friends from my quilt group, Rebecca and Ann, who are old hands at set-up, and became a member of Ann's team.
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| The Craneway Pavillion at 9 am |
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| Ann fitting poles into stands |
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| A forest of stands, ultimately enough for more than 200 quilts to be displayed |
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A mock-up of the show, showing the configuration of the walls of quilts
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| Ann wearing her Row Captain hat as we get underway with setting up the stands and poles for our row |
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A fleet of ironing boards and an army of iron-ers worked on the muslin panels that hang behind each quilt
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| The ironed muslim panels hang from the poles, ready for quilts |
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| Hanging each quilt according to the master plan |
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| By 2:30, most of the quilts were hung |
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| Quilters even have colorful raincoats |
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