{"id":3503,"date":"2015-10-02T16:14:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T23:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2015-10-02T16:14:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T23:14:17","slug":"so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-2015-outstanding-traditional-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/02\/so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-2015-outstanding-traditional-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"So You Want To Make a Winning Quilt? 2015 Outstanding Traditional Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>My Brunette Whig <\/em>was made by Gail Stepanek and quilted by Jan Hutchison. They received $5,000.00 from sponsor, ABM International, Inc. \/ Innova<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/quilt-entries\/so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-2015-outstanding-traditional-quilt\/attachment\/traditional-quilt\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3504\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3504\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Traditional-Quilt.jpg\" alt=\"Traditional Quilt\" width=\"455\" height=\"457\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThis winning quilt was a total collaboration between Gail and Jan. So much so, that they answered our questions for this post as a team!!!\n&nbsp;\n<em>How did you get stated in quilting?<\/em><strong> Gail:<\/strong> I was hooked after making my first quilt in the early 80&#8217;s. <strong>Jan:<\/strong> I started quilting so that I could finish a quilt that my Grandmother left unfinished. That was 14 years ago and I have yet to finish it.\n&nbsp;\n<em>What inspired your design for My Brunette Whig?<\/em> <strong>Gail:<\/strong> Whig Rose quilts and variations of the pattern. I borrowed some variations and added my own to create a block that most likely isn&#8217;t recognized as a Whig Rose. The dark brown background gave it its name. <strong>Jan:<\/strong> I wanted to keep the quilting traditional but update it a bit with the use of metallic and contrasting threads. We worked on it up until the very last minute to enter it before the deadline.\n&nbsp;\n<em>How long did it take to make this quilt?<\/em> <strong>Gail:<\/strong> People always ask how long it took to make a quilt. If I told you that I started it in 2011 and finished it in 2014 you would think that it took 3 years. I did start it in 2011 and finished in 11 months (5 of those months were spent trying to find an interesting layout). I then put it aside until 2014 when I sent it to Jan for quilting. <strong>Jan:<\/strong> It took about two months to quilt.\n<em>What was your reaction when you learned you won?<\/em> <strong>Gail:<\/strong> Road to CA was the first show that MBW was entered in and the first time I&#8217;ve entered an all applique project. Not sure of my applique skills, this award gave me confidence to try another applique design in the future! I was thrilled with the award and so happy to be at the show. <strong>Jan:<\/strong> I was excited to win the award.\n<em>What plans do you have for your winnings?<\/em> <strong>Gail:<\/strong>\u00a0More fabric, attending shows, etc. <strong>Jan:<\/strong> At least part of my share of the award money went towards more fabric and thread. I learned to be sure to have enough thread I need before I start quilting &#8211; I had to make an emergency thread order at the last minute.\n<em>Where do you go from here?<\/em> <strong>Gail:<\/strong> Jan and I hope to keep the quilts coming. This was our third quilt together and Jan will start quilting our fifth this fall.]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3504,"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":[18,28],"tags":[125,450,593,1104,1389],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quilt-entries","category-road-2015-20th-anniversary-show","tag-award-winning-quilts","tag-gail-stepanek","tag-jan-hut","tag-road-to-california-2015","tag-winning-quilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Traditional-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\/3503","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=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}