{"id":1745,"date":"2014-04-22T13:10:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T20:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2014-04-22T13:10:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T20:10:46","slug":"celebrating-earth-day-with-award-winning-quilts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/22\/celebrating-earth-day-with-award-winning-quilts\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Earth Day With Award Winning Quilts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">One of the categories for the Road to California Quilt Contest is\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Art\/Naturescape<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 2014, 15 entries were accepted for judging. In honor of Earth Day, here are the award winning quilts \u00a0for this category and a description of the places and things in nature that inspired them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Best Wall Quilt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/celebrating-earth-day-with-award-winning-quilts\/attachment\/where-we-met\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1749\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1749\" alt=\"Where We Met\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Where-We-Met-748x1024.jpg\" width=\"524\" height=\"717\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><em>Where We Met &#8211; Linda C. Anderson \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Hogbo, Sweden, a small village near Stockholm<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Best Visual<\/strong><\/em> Image<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/celebrating-earth-day-with-award-winning-quilts\/attachment\/red-sunflower\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1748\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1748\" alt=\"Red Sunflower\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red-Sunflower-1024x772.jpg\" width=\"645\" height=\"486\" \/><\/a><em>Red Sunflower by Susan Bianchi<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Inspired by a flower growing near Santa Cruz,\u00a0California\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>First Place<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/celebrating-earth-day-with-award-winning-quilts\/attachment\/havasu-falls\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1746\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1746\" alt=\"Havasu Falls\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Havasu-Falls-841x1024.jpg\" width=\"589\" height=\"717\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><em>Havasu Falls by Kathy McNeil<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Located via a 13 mile hike into the Grand Canyon on the Havasupai Reservation<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Second Place<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/celebrating-earth-day-with-award-winning-quilts\/attachment\/my-pallette\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1747\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1747\" alt=\"My Pallette\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/My-Pallette-790x1024.jpg\" width=\"553\" height=\"717\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><em>My Pallette &#8211; Dr. Sandra L. Nehlsen-Cannarella<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Nature in all her realm&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Third Place<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/celebrating-earth-day-with-award-winning-quilts\/attachment\/winter-squash\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1750\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1750\" alt=\"Winter Squash\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Winter-Squash-1024x872.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"523\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><em>Winter Squash &#8211; Lauretta Crites<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Veggie Splendor&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mother Nature would be proud of these winning depictions don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1746,"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":[18,22,27,32],"tags":[116,356,795,1389],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quilt-entries","category-blog","category-road-2014","category-road-to-california","tag-artnaturescape","tag-earth-day","tag-mother-nature","tag-winning-quilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Havasu-Falls.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}