{"id":4717,"date":"2017-02-15T22:17:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T05:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2017-02-15T22:17:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T05:17:41","slug":"best-of-show-road-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/15\/best-of-show-road-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of Show \u2013 Road 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tMargaret Solomon Gunn <\/a>of Gorham, Maine, won $10,000 from sponsor Gammill Quilting Systems<\/a>, for her Best of Show winning quilt, The Twisted Sister<\/em>.\"\"<\/a>\nA quilter for nearly 30 years, Margaret Solomon Gunn\u2019s experience with sewing began when she was in middle and high school, making her own clothes. She made her first quilt in college: a dusty blue and peach calico fabric pieced into granny squares and tied on the corners.\nMargaret loves \u201cthe feeling of being creative.\u201d After her 3 kids were born, (her youngest is now 10), she got back into quilting seriously, making over 100 quilts that were donated to Project Linus between 2007 and 2010.\u00a0 When she bought her longarm in 2010, she was \u201ckind of accidentally told I should enter a quilt into a show.\u201d\u00a0 Margaret did and that started \u201cthe avalanche of interest in making quilts\u201d for shows.\u00a0 As she says, \u201cthe rest is history.\u201d\"\"<\/a>\nThe Twisted Sister <\/em>is actually the sister quilt (hence the name) to Margaret\u2019s 2015 quilt, Bouquet Royale<\/em>.\u00a0 The earlier design featured the elongated hexagons of Lucy Boston, set on silk Radiance.\u00a0 Margaret loved the process of hand piecing the fussy-cut pieces so much, she decided to do it again.\u00a0 The Twisted Sister<\/em> also has fussy-cut pieces, but they are regular hexagons.\u00a0 They are not English Paper Piecing, but rather a hand-pieced technique she developed that is much better for custom quilting.\u00a0 The colors in the quilt are Margaret\u2019s \u201ccurrent fave\u201d \u2013 pinks, greens and orange.\u00a0 She also has a current addiction with silk, so Margaret revealed, \u201cyou can expect the backgrounds of my quilts to be silk Radiance for some time to come! It allows me to use bolder prints elsewhere because the quilting will always show beautifully on the silk.\u201d\u00a0 The Twisted Sister\u2019s<\/em> blocks feature a crazy zebra print (because Margaret says this sister is a whole lot more wild!), and an asymmetrical twisting border.\u00a0\u00a0 There is also a twisting motif in the quilting of the outer border.\nIt took Margaret about 16-17 months — from the time she started the blocks– to complete the quilt.\u00a0 There is about 180 hours in the quilting alone<\/strong> and about 120 hours in the binding<\/strong>.\u00a0 Margaret realizes that small points in judging \u201ccan be won and lost with finishing, so most of my quilts feature more unique edge treatments.\u201d\u00a0 Margaret noted that she will probably not repeat those edging treatments: double piped and scalloped binding with the looped detailing, all of which was executed by hand.\nRoad to California 2017 was the second time The Twisted Sister <\/em>was shown and Margaret said she wasn\u2019t sure what to expect from the judges. She said she was \u201chappy and surprised\u201d to learn she had won Best of Show. She hasn\u2019t decided what to do with her prize money yet.\nWhat does the quilting future hold for Margaret? She is finishing up a book with AQS, along with two other self-published books, all of which should debut April 2017.\u00a0 She will teach at select quilting shows and intends to write for Machine Quilting Unlimited magazine.\u00a0 In her spare time, she will still quilt for clients (one of her client\u2019s quilts was also in Road 2017) and also work on the coming year\u2019s show quilts. Margaret exclaims, \u201cIt\u2019s a fun life!\u201d\nCongratulations Margaret Solomon Gunn on your Best of Show winning quilt!!]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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