{"id":4075,"date":"2016-06-04T23:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=4075"},"modified":"2016-06-04T23:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T06:00:02","slug":"quilting-is-for-millennials-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/04\/quilting-is-for-millennials-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Quilting Is For Millennials Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[It was great to see these quilting millennials enjoying Road 2016:<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-2016\/quilting-is-for-millennials-too\/attachment\/williams-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4078\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4078\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Williams-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Williams\" width=\"587\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a>\n27 year old Brittany Williams attended Road with her mom, Charlotte. They live in Riverside, California and both mom and daughter are quilters. \u00a0They belong to the Raincross Quilt Guild in Riverside who told them about the show. Brittney had been quilting for about 6 months when she and her mom attended their first Road to California. It was Charlotte and a friend of Brittany\u2019s that encouraged Brittany to start quilting. Quilting was a natural activity for Brittany as she was already used to doing handiwork like knitting and crocheting. She loves quilting and has already made 7 quilts including a nine patch and a disappearing nine patch. \u201cWhen I grow up, I want to be a quilter,\u201d Brittany remarked.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-2016\/quilting-is-for-millennials-too\/attachment\/014\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4079\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4079\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/014-521x1024.jpg\" alt=\"014\" width=\"420\" height=\"825\" \/><\/a>\nMelissa Ratzloff, 32, \u00a0got her start in quilting nine years ago when she went to visit her mom while she was working on a quilt for Melissa. While her mom was at work, Melissa thought she could work on the quilt \u2013 even though she knew nothing about quilting. One year, Melissa attended a judging for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoffmanfabrics.com\/the-new-hoffman-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hoffman Challenge<\/a> and ended up helping out at the event. That led to Melissa curating for the Hoffman Challenge for the following two years. Melissa is in to art quits now utilizing graphics. For Melissa, \u201cquilting is a release for stress.\u201d She is a teacher during the day and at night, she likes to take fabric and put it together in an interesting way to make something beautiful. Melissa has attended Road all nine years she has been quilting. What does she like best about quilting? \u201cYou can stop and come back to it\u201d in-between kids and work.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-2016\/quilting-is-for-millennials-too\/attachment\/016\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4080\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4080\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/016-515x1024.jpg\" alt=\"016\" width=\"389\" height=\"773\" \/><\/a>\nKim came from Simi Valley, California with her grandmother and mom. She is a third generation quilter who was drawn to quilting by the math process involved. She has made a large quilt and 2 wall hangings. <a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-2016\/quilting-is-for-millennials-too\/attachment\/quilt-by-millenial-kim-from-simi-valley\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4076\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4076\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Quilt-by-Millenial-Kim-from-simi-Valley-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Quilt by Millenial Kim from simi Valley\" width=\"466\" height=\"622\" \/><\/a>A student at Pierce College, she is studying to become a veterinarian technician. Quilting relaxes her between school and work. \u201cIt\u2019s a nice break,\u201d said Kim. Road 2016 was her third time at the show. She thinks Road is \u201cawesome\u201d and found the winning entries \u201cmind blowing.\u201d\n&nbsp;]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4078,"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":[29],"tags":[523,758,1420],"class_list":["post-4075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-2016","tag-hoffman-challenge","tag-millennial-quilters","tag-youth-quilters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Williams-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075","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=4075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}