{"id":3571,"date":"2015-11-10T16:40:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T23:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2015-11-10T16:40:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T23:40:34","slug":"so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-road-2015-best-use-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/10\/so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-road-2015-best-use-of-color\/","title":{"rendered":"So You Want To Make A Winning Quilt: Road 2015 Best Use of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cheryl L. See received $1,500 from sponsor, Primitive Gatherings, for <em>Starlette<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-2015-20th-anniversary-show\/so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-road-2015-best-use-of-color\/attachment\/best-color\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3572\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3572\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Best-Color-1024x913.jpg\" alt=\"Best Color\" width=\"595\" height=\"530\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\nCheryl See has had a needle in her hand since she was 3 or 4 years of age. However, she didn\u2019t start quilting until the early 1990\u2019s.\u00a0 Her foray into quilting was inspired by all the small scraps of bright colored fabric that were too small to make anything else except to use in a quilt.\n<em>Starlette<\/em> was inspired by her big sister, <em>Star Struck<\/em>, which is in the <a href=\"http:\/\/quiltmuseum.org\/\">National Quilt Museum<\/a>.\u00a0 Cheryl wanted to make a smaller version to use when she gave lectures and taught. <em>Starlette\u00a0<\/em>is\u00a0<i>\u00a0<\/i>entirely made by hand using English Paper Piecing, applique, trapunto, embroidery and hot fix Swarovski crystals. It is reversible with the back having woven appliqued bias strips in a triangular pattern. <em>Starlette <\/em>includes 4,582 hexagons, 335 circles and 192 ovals.\nIt took Cheryl 9 months to complete Starlette. Cheryl recalled, \u201cIt took only 9 months, but I put in a lot of hours in those 9 months.\u201d During that time, she was writing her book, <em>Star Struck &amp; Starlette<\/em>, and wanted some great step-by-step photos.\u00a0 She found it very helpful to be working on a quilt while she was writing because it helped her to find just the right words to describe to others how to do each step.\u00a0 Cheryl believes, \u201cWe continue to learn as we teach others along the way.\u201d\nCheryl was happily surprised to win the <em>Best Use of Color Award<\/em> as she usually competes in the Hand Quilting or Innovative categories. Cheryl used her prize money to buy more fabric to make more quilts. \u201cIt\u2019s funny how the next quilt doesn\u2019t ever seem to use up much of my stash!\u201d remarked Cheryl.\nWhat is next for Cheryl? \u201cI love all handwork and I love innovative quilts or the unexpected.\u00a0 With my next quilts, I hope to surprise and inspire more quilters to see hand quilting as more than just traditional.\u00a0 I want to keep hand quilting alive and continue to teach new quilters how to quilt by hand.\u201d\nAnother one of Cheryl&#8217;s future plans is that she will be teaching \u00a0four classes at Road 2016: on\u00a0Thursday, <strong>4015R\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 English Paper Piecing Technique<\/strong>, on Friday,\u00a0<strong>5013R\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Innovative Hand Quilting<\/strong>, on Saturday,\u00a0<strong>6012R\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hexie Daisy <\/strong>and on Sunday,<strong>\u00a07012R\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Innovative Hand Quilting.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\nTo learn more about Cheryl, please visit her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cseesquilts.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3572,"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":[28],"tags":[125,242,492,568,811],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-2015-20th-anniversary-show","tag-award-winning-quilts","tag-cheryl-l-see","tag-hand-quilting","tag-innovative-quilting","tag-national-quilt-museum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Best-Color.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571","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=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}