{"id":4147,"date":"2016-07-06T17:46:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T00:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=4147"},"modified":"2016-07-06T17:46:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T00:46:05","slug":"meet-eye-of-the-beholder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/06\/meet-eye-of-the-beholder\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet 2016\/2017 Vendor: \u00a0Eye of the Beholder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Eye of the Beholder Quilt Design will be returning to Road to California in 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">How does someone go from <strong>professional dancer<\/strong> to <strong>quilter<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\nThat is exactly what Margaret Willingham did. For many years, Margaret taught choreography for a modern dance company specializing in classical ballet and modern dance. \u00a0When Margaret developed major back problems (she had 5 surgeries in 2 years), she realized that teaching dance was no longer an option. Newly divorced, Margaret had to find something she could do to make a living. So she turned to her passions to find the answer.\n[caption id=\"attachment_4151\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"552\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/vendors\/meet-20162017-vendor-eye-of-the-beholder\/attachment\/eye-of-the-beholder5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4151\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4151\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eye-of-the-Beholder5-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Brian Roberts Photography\" width=\"552\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a> Photo by Brian Roberts Photography[\/caption]\nMargaret loved being creative, artistic, and quilting. For Margaret, fabric was \u201cfun to play with.\u201d She \u201cfollowed the doors God had given\u201d her and started <em>Eye of the Beholder Quilt Design<\/em>. She has been in business going on 6 years. Instead of choreographing dances, she is choreographing quilts.\n<em>Eye of the Beholder Quilt Design<\/em> specializes in <em>original applique patterns inspired by the world around us.<\/em> Margaret has developed a reverse applique process that is \u201ca no brainer.\u201d Just <strong>Trace-Baste-Snip-Stitch.<\/strong> Margaret shared that she\u2019s even had 10 year olds master her technique. \u201cPeople are amazed at how easy and simple of a process it is.\u201d <em>Eye of the Beholder Quilt Designs<\/em> can also be done as machine reverse applique because Margaret has found that some people don\u2019t like to do hand work.\n[caption id=\"attachment_4148\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"625\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/vendors\/meet-20162017-vendor-eye-of-the-beholder\/attachment\/eye-of-the-beholder-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4148\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eye-of-the-Beholder-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Brian Roberts Photography \" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a> Photo by Brian Roberts Photography[\/caption]\nFrom August, 2015 to January, 2016, Margaret put <strong>11,000 miles<\/strong> on her new van traveling to various shows. She spends most of the time in her booth demonstrating her applique steps with her customers. She has also put up <a href=\"http:\/\/eobquiltdesign.com\/reverseapplique\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tutorials <\/a>on her website, has <a href=\"http:\/\/eobquiltdesign.com\/shop1\/?category=Tutorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a booklet<\/a> that explains her technique, and writes a <a href=\"http:\/\/eobquiltdesign.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blog <\/a>sharing applique tips and experiences.\n[caption id=\"attachment_4149\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"625\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/vendors\/meet-20162017-vendor-eye-of-the-beholder\/attachment\/eye-of-the-beholder\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4149\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4149\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eye-of-the-Beholder-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Brian Roberts Photography\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a> Photo by Brian Roberts Photography[\/caption]\nRoad 2016 was Margaret\u2019s first time at the show. She had never really been to Southern California before and was excited to be at Road as she had \u201cheard good things about the show.\u201d She is looking forward to returning to Road 2017.\n[caption id=\"attachment_4150\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"625\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/vendors\/meet-20162017-vendor-eye-of-the-beholder\/attachment\/eye-of-the-beholder3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4150\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eye-of-the-Beholder3-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Brian Roberts Photography\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a> Photo by Brian Roberts Photography[\/caption]\nYou can learn more about\u00a0<em>Eye of the Beholder Quilt Designs\u00a0<\/em>on their <a href=\"http:\/\/eobquiltdesign.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":0,"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":[29,31,37],"tags":[100,389,1024,1090,1103],"class_list":["post-4147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-2016","category-road-2017","category-vendors","tag-applique","tag-eye-of-the-beholder-quilt-designs","tag-quilt-vendor","tag-reverse-applique","tag-road-to-california"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147","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=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}