{"id":4109,"date":"2016-06-23T17:38:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T00:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=4109"},"modified":"2016-06-23T17:38:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T00:38:48","slug":"so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-road-2016-best-traditional-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/23\/so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-road-2016-best-traditional-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"So You Want to Make A Winning Quilt? Road 2016 Best Traditional Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe Paisley Peacock<\/em> was made and quilted by Bethanne Nemesh<\/a>. Bethanne won $5,000 for Outstanding<\/strong>\u00a0Traditional Quilt <\/strong>from Janome<\/a>.\"Best<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nWhile both of Bethanne Nemesh\u2019s<\/a> grandmothers made quilts, quilting for Bethanne was largely a process of self-discovery.\u00a0 Her mother didn\u2019t quilt, but she did sew and Bethanne remembers \u201ctruly hat(ing) the fabrics from my youth.\u00a0 The late 1970\u2019s and 1980\u2019s calicos did not do much to inspire a young artist.\u201d\u00a0 It was when Bethanne went to college and met a fiber artist who did hand dying and printmaking that she realized she didn\u2019t have to tolerate <\/em>what the stores had to offer. Later, when she moved to Pennsylvania with the rich quilting culture there, Bethanne really took off with her quilting.\"Bethanne<\/a>\nPaisley Peacoc<\/em>k was inspired by a henna tattoo that Bethanne got at the beach one summer; the tattoo had swirling paisley designs. She was also inspired by a rich ribbon edged sari fabric from India.\nThe quilt took close to 200 quilting hours<\/strong>, but that only tells a part of the story.\u00a0 The design time for the quilt was also significant, but most of her work was with the edge treatment.\u00a0 Bethanne is known for doing specialty edges on her quilts. The handmade edge for Paisley Peacock<\/em> is a combination of beads enclosed in a sleeve of fabric and individually made tabs placed carefully around the quilt.\u00a0 The edge itself took an additional 150 hours<\/strong> to complete.\"Best<\/a>\nBethanne was \u201cquite surprised\u201d that Paisley Peacock<\/em> won one of the top prizes at Road 2016. \u00a0Winning Outstanding Traditional Quilt was an enormous honor for her, \u201cespecially since a huge number of entries at the show were traditional.\u201d\nWhat did Bethanne do with her prize money? In August 2016, Bethanne sustained a hip injury that required extensive surgery. She is still not fully recovered and so trying to maintain her 2,500 square foot front yard garden<\/strong> of perennials has been challenging. Winning this prize allowed her to hire a professional landscaper to design and execute a drastic –yet still beautiful– scaled down version of her front garden.\nAfter achieving this honor, Bethanne \u00a0hopes to continue to push herself creatively making meaningful show quilts.\u00a0 She is currently working on two quilts that she really feels strongly about. Bethanne also hopes to travel and teach at a west coast show in the near future.\n \n \n \n\u00a0<\/strong>\n<\/strong>]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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