Rachel's Fashion Show at Bay Quilts

Well, we have good news and bad news. The good news is, if you were in the audience yesterday at Bay Quilts or watching live via Zoom, you heard and saw lots of Rachel showing off her garments and talking through how each one came about. There was some Q&A and lots of humor with Rachel sharing her life-long experiences as a quilter and artist and thoughtful human being.

Now for the bad news. Due to some technical difficulties with the recording, we don't have a recording to share with you (😱😓 X 100).

A real bummer from our perspective too. On a personal note, the RDKC team is all Rachel's family and this fashion show was 2 hours of classic Rachel Clark discussing, not just her garments, but her life and experiences. It was a recording that I was already imagining keeping and sharing with Rachel's first great-grandchild due on Rachel's birthday this coming May (no joke, Rachel may likely get to share her birthday with her first great grandchild and if you know Rachel, you know that's a big deal!) Anyway, a good lesson about testing your devices and setup. Letting go and moving on, we will just have to try again in the near future. Stay tuned for more online fashion shows.

We did get some photos from the show and those are shared below. If you are interested in learning more about any of Rachel's garments that are for sale at Bay Quilts through December 30, please contact Bay Quilts owner Sally Davey at (510) 558 - 0218 or by email at create@sfbayquilts.com.

Rachel and Bay Quilts owner Sally Davey modeling Christmas coats.

Rachel discussing Ikat and Indigo Asia. In 2023 Rachel and two friends entered several themed garments into an exhibit at the Pacific International Quilt Festival. Their theme was continents and they each made garments from different continents with fabric from those continents. Ikat and Indigo Asia was Rachel’s Asia Coat. She also made a North America and and Australia coat, each coat using the same pattern and colorway. For this the Asia-inspired coat, she used ikat and indigo fabrics. The ikat fabrics are a mix of old and new, and they had to have red or turquoise in the pattern. She enhanced her collection of ikat with similar fabrics embellished the garment with red accents of fabric and red stitching and a wide indigo border without any stitching. All three garments are show below:

Rachel’s Blue Rhino Coat. Blue is Rachel’s favorite color and so she made a coat called All Things Blue that had a block for every single thing Rachel could think of that was the color blue. The first time Rachel showed All Things Blue an audience member asked why Rachel hadn’t included a blue rhino in the coat? Rachel had never heard of a blue rhino but came home, looked it up and decided the blue rhino needed its own coat. In deciding what to include in the coat other than a blue rhino Rachel remembered a crazy quilt block paper piecing project she had shelved a year earlier. She had gotten very excited about making blue paper pieced crazy quilt blocks, so much so that she had made 100 of them. Upon making the 100th block she decided she was too tired of them to do anything with them right away and boxed them up for later. Blue Rhino coat was later. So the coat is made of a blue rhino with a yellow-gold horn and 100 blue paper pieced crazy quilt blocks, as well as rhino themed orange and blue lining and a dutch wax batik border.

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