{"id":4866,"date":"2017-04-14T11:41:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T18:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=4866"},"modified":"2017-04-14T11:41:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T18:41:14","slug":"outstanding-art-quilt-road-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/14\/outstanding-art-quilt-road-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding Art Quilt – Road 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tEmma in the Looking Glass <\/em>was made and quilted by Lenore Crawford <\/a>who won $5,000 from sponsor, Handi Quilter<\/a>.\"Winning<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nLenore Crawford is no stranger to Road to California. She has been a member of the teaching faculty in the past and in 2014, she won in the same category, Outstanding Art Quilt, for her work, Capturing Brittany.\"\"<\/a> <\/em>\nLenore started quilting in the late 1990\u2019s using 2\u201d fabric squares as her art medium in the watercolor quilting style.\u00a0 She created impressionistic art quilts with the squares.\u00a0 Up until that time, she hadn\u2019t done any quilting; just lots of other things with different mediums.\nWhat inspired Lenore to create Emma in the Looking Glass<\/em>? Lenore along with her friend, her friend\u2019s daughter and granddaughter were visiting Lenore\u2019s mother\u2019s gardens where there is a beautiful lily pond that Lenore\u2019s step-father had built.\u00a0 Emma, the granddaughter, was playing around the pond when Lenore took her picture.\u00a0 It was a beautiful sunny day in mid-summer and Lenore was \u201creally inspired by the whole scene.\u201d\nLenore spent several months in the winter of 2016 creating Emma in the Looking Glass<\/em>.\u00a0 It was one of the very first quilts Lenore had done of a person using her fusing technique.\u00a0 The most difficult part was finding the perfect flesh tone fabrics which in the shadows and water were very purple.\u00a0 Lenore ended up using her fabric paints and painting the colors and values of fabrics that she needed for them.\nWhen Lenore found out she had won, she thought that it was \u201cvery exciting to win a prize like this!\u00a0 I like to have my art quilts in large shows so others can see what can be done with fabric.\u00a0 If I win a prize that is the icing on the cake!\u201d She is planning to use her prize money toward the purchase of a new car where she can \u201cenjoy it every day!\u201d\nWhat does the future hold for Lenore? She has already finished a large piece this past winter that she plans to enter either in 2018 or 2019 at Road to California.\u00a0 She loves to have a large piece in the works.\u00a0 For Lenore, the larger the piece the more detail she can add to it which \u201cmakes it all the more fun!\u201d\nWe can\u2019t wait to see what Lenore has created next!!\nTo learn more about Lenore, please visit her website.<\/a>\n ]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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