{"id":113,"date":"2008-05-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/road-to-california\/2009-faculty-6\/"},"modified":"2008-05-14T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T13:00:00","slug":"2009-faculty-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/14\/2009-faculty-6\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[Gina Perkes, Payson, AZ<br \/>Gina does not have a web site.\n\nGina is an award winning long arm quilter.  She will be teaching two all day classes, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Block Designs and Gridwork<\/span> and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Creating Beautiful Quilting Designs.<\/span>  The two half day classes will be <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Wonderful World of Wearables<\/span> and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Longarm Appliqu\u00e9.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">More about Gina<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">Carolyn:<\/span>  How many years have you been quilting?<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 153, 0);\">Gina:<\/span>  I have been quilting for ten years.\n\n<span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">Carolyn:<\/span>  Do you have any other hobbies besides quilting?<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 153, 0);\">Gina:<\/span>  There is no shortage of hobbies in my life.  I enjoy photography, scrapbooking, cake decorating, wearable art, costume making&#8230;I guess the pattern here is &#8220;creativity&#8221;!\n\n<span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">Carolyn:<\/span>   What motivated you to start quilting?<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 153, 0);\">Gina:<\/span>  I was pregnant with my second child at the time and wanted to make quilts for my daughter&#8217;s bed and for the new baby.\n\n<span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">Carolyn:<\/span>   Where have you traveled in your quilting teaching career?<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 153, 0);\">Gina:<\/span> Since I have three young children at home I have stuck to teaching nearby so that I don&#8217;t have to take too much time away from family.  I live in Arizona so I mainly teach in AZ or California.\n\n<span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">Carolyn:<\/span>   Does anyone else in your family quilt?<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 153, 0);\">Gina:<\/span> Yes, my mother and my grandmother both enjoy quilting on a regular basis.  My grandma has always enjoyed sewing she sewed beautiful garments for years, she taught me to sew clothing when I was twelve.  Then I introduced her and my mother to quilting.\n\n<span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">Carolyn:<\/span>   What is your birth order? &#8211; only child, first, second, third, or ??<br \/>Gina: I am an only child.\n\n<span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">Carolyn:<\/span>   Where did you grow up?<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 153, 0);\">Gina:<\/span>  I grew up in Lancaster, California\n\n<span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">Carolyn:<\/span>   Do you have children \u2013 grandchildren?<br \/>Gina: I have three children ages:13, 9, and 7- One girl and two little boys&#8230;the loves of my life!\n\n<span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">Carolyn:<\/span>   Do you have any pets?<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 153, 0);\">Gina:<\/span>  We have two smash-nosed dogs:  Roscoe- a french bulldog and Tucker- a Boston Terrier, we also have an African Grey parrot who has yet to be named so we just call him &#8220;Birdie&#8221; for now.\n\n<span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">Carolyn:<\/span>   What is your favorite food?<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 153, 0);\">Gina:<\/span>   I am not picky about food whatsoever, I thoroughly enjoy all types of cuisine-  Italian and Mexican I would have to say are at the top of my list!\n\n<span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">Carolyn:<\/span>   What would be on your \u201cbucket list\u201d (like the movie) if you could do anything and money was no object.?<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 153, 0);\">Gina:<\/span>  I am a fairly simple person in terms of what makes me happy, my life is very full- so I guess if I knew that my life was nearing its end I would just want to spend as much time with my family as I could, traveling with them to neat places&#8230;The Carribean perhaps&#8230;anywhere tropical!!\n\nAnd a big thank you to Gina Halladay for allowing us to refer you to her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quiltersbuzz.com\/2008\/03\/check_out_this_quilted_beauty_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> for more information about Gina Perkes.]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-road-to-california"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}