{"id":3665,"date":"2015-12-26T23:16:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T06:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2015-12-26T23:16:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T06:16:22","slug":"so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-2015-excellence-in-hand-quilting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/26\/so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-2015-excellence-in-hand-quilting\/","title":{"rendered":"So You Want To Make A Winning Quilt? 2015 Excellence In Hand Quilting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>White Bouquet\u00a0<\/em>was made and quilted by\u00a0Mariko Duenwald of San Francisco, California. She received $1,500 from sponsor <a href=\"http:\/\/worldofquiltstravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World of Quilts Travel<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/more-top-winning-quilts-from-road-2015\/attachment\/excellance-in-hand-quilting\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2872\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2872\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Excellance-in-Hand-Quilting.jpg\" alt=\"Excellance in Hand Quilting\" width=\"342\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A quilter for almost 25 years, Mariko Duenwald, came to the United States from Japan in 1983. When Mariko was a young girl living in Japan,\u00a0she\u00a0found a &#8220;rather unique fabric store&#8221; in Tokyo that had an American antique quilt on display. At the time, Mariko didn&#8217;t know what a quilt was but she fell in love with what she saw and began researching quilts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After coming to America, Mariko taught herself how to quilt by reading books.\u00a0Mariko prefers hand quilting. She has said, &#8220;With machine quilting, you really have to concentrate. But with\u00a0hand quilting, you can sit on the couch and watch TV, so I like that. Quilting is the best\u00a0part of making a quilt, for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>White Bouquet\u00a0<\/em>was started\u00a0in 2011 and finished in 2013. It was an original design made by Mariko and her\u00a0third trapunto quilt<i>. <\/i>After completing this quilt,\u00a0Mariko says she now feels more comfortable with this type of quilt.<\/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":2872,"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":[18,32],"tags":[125,492,1319,1409],"class_list":["post-3665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quilt-entries","category-road-to-california","tag-award-winning-quilts","tag-hand-quilting","tag-trapunto","tag-world-of-quilts-travel-and-textile-tours"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Excellance-in-Hand-Quilting.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665","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=3665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}