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<\/a>Lenore Crawford began using fabric as an art medium around 1995.\u00a0 She loved the warmth, texture, and value that fabric offers as compared to other media.\u00a0 It was fun for Lenore to create art quilts with fabric and see how far she could take the medium.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\nLenore\u2019s winning entry, Capturing Brittany <\/em>was inspired by her many visits to France. She loved France\u2019s ancient architecture ever since her first visit when she was 16 years old.\u00a0 To be able to create art with fabric that resembled it was very intriguing to Lenore.\u00a0 Being able to achieve a very realistic design that truly looked like the real thing in fabric was so exciting.\u00a0 This particular piece was inspired by photos taken in a village in northern France.\u00a0 A class of art students was sketching that day.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Capturing Brittany<\/em> was mostly created during the winter over several months.\u00a0 While making the quilt, Lenore learned that she loved to add fine detail to her designs, making them seem even more realistic.\u00a0 She fuses tiny pieces to add some of the detail where it\u2019s still feasible, and when the pieces get to be too small, she uses a little bit of fabric paint instead of fabric.\u00a0 Shading and detail is what made the design look more realistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What was Lenore\u2019s reaction when she won? \u201cI was very excited to win.\u00a0 This means to me that I am accepted by my peers in my field.\u00a0 It is also a very great way to advertise my work especially for teaching.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Did she do anything special with her prize money? \u201cI spent a good chunk of the money on a good quality espresso machine.\u00a0 I love good coffee and especially missed it after getting home from our trip to New Zealand last year where you can even find a fabulous latte at McDonald\u2019s!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is next for Lenore and her quilting? \u201cThat is the question of the hour!\u00a0 I feel at this point I want to do something different.\u00a0 I like change.\u00a0 We grow when we change.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what it will be, but I will always keep creating more art because that is my passion.\u00a0 I would love to learn to use Photoshop to manipulate my photos I use to create my art quilts, but we will see.\u00a0 Running a business keeps me very busy with teaching all over the world, maintaining my stock, doing paperwork, coming up with new patterns and classes.\u00a0 Life is so busy and sometimes gets in the way of the creative process.\u00a0 I will take some time this fall to see where I want to go now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2162,"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],"tags":[433,1178,1389],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quilt-entries","category-blog","category-road-2014","tag-france","tag-sewbatik","tag-winning-quilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Outstanding-Art-Quilt.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","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=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}