{"id":3427,"date":"2015-08-27T21:11:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T04:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=3427"},"modified":"2015-08-27T21:11:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T04:11:20","slug":"so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-2015-outstanding-modern-quilt-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-2015-outstanding-modern-quilt-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"So You Want To Make A Winning Quilt? 2015 Outstanding Modern Quilt Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Keep it Simple <\/em>was made and quilted by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/jodirdesigns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Jodi Robinson<\/a>. She was awarded $5,000 from Robert Kaufman Co., Inc.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/longarm\/so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-2015-outstanding-modern-quilt-winner\/attachment\/best-modern-quilt-2015\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3429\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3429\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Best-Modern-Quilt-2015.jpg\" alt=\"Best Modern Quilt 2015\" width=\"415\" height=\"563\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<em>How did you get started in quilting? <\/em>My mother-in-law introduced me to quilting about 20 years ago.\u00a0 The first quilt I made was a log cabin.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until I had made all of my blocks, and began the layout process, and saw all of the design possibilities that this one stack of blocks had \u2026. I was hooked.\u00a0 A couple of years later, we purchased a longarm machine and I found my passion. I have been machine quilting for others ever since.\n<em>What inspired you to make Keep it Simple?<\/em> My inspiration for this entire quilt came straight from the pattern on the backing fabric.\u00a0 I actually started with an idea for the quilting, and kind of made the quilt to fit the quilting designs.\u00a0 I wanted to see if I could make a very simple modern quilt that would still have a very strong visual impact.\n<em>How long did it take to make your winning quilt?<\/em> I made and quilted my original design for <em>Keep it Simple <\/em>in 2013. The quilt piecing actually took very little time. I had made the small applique blocks and then didn\u2019t actually do anything with them.\u00a0 Then, a few months later, I needed something to work on at a sewing day I was going to, so I grabbed those blocks and some matching fabric and pieced it into a finished top.\n<em>What was your reaction when you won?<\/em> I was so shocked!\u00a0 I am amazed by how well this quilt has done!\u00a0 I never in a million years could have imagined winning an award like this, especially knowing the incredible talent that is displayed at the Road to California Show every year.\n<em>Did you do anything special with your prize money? <\/em>I did not. \u00a0I am hoping to purchase a new longarm machine at some point in the future, and this prize money will definitely help me reach that goal sooner.\n<em>What quilting will you be working on next? <\/em>I will continue to explore my love of modern quilts.\u00a0 I was so happy when I saw that Road to California had added \u201cmodern\u201d categories to their show.\u00a0 I am definitely planning on entering again in 2016!]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3429,"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":[13,15,18],"tags":[158,617,777,1103],"class_list":["post-3427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longarm","category-modern-quilting","category-quilt-entries","tag-best-modern-quilt","tag-jodi-robinson","tag-modern-quilting","tag-road-to-california"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Best-Modern-Quilt-2015.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427","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=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}