{"id":4949,"date":"2017-05-30T17:16:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T00:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=4949"},"modified":"2017-05-30T17:16:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T00:16:54","slug":"so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-outstanding-modern-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/30\/so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-outstanding-modern-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"So You Want To Make A Winning Quilt:  Outstanding Modern Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p id=\"u5607-5\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Z is for Zoey won Outstanding Modern Quilt at Road to California 2017. Sponsor Riley Blake Designs awarded $5,000 to maker, <a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/faculty\/road-2016-faculty-meet-mary-kerr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mary Kerr<\/a> and quilter, <a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-2015-20th-anniversary-show\/this-is-a-winning-quilt-road-2015-directors-choice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karen McTavish<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-outstanding-modern-quilt\/attachment\/outstanding-modern-quilt-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4951\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4951\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Outstanding-Modern-Quilt-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Family and quilting goes hand in hand for Mary Kerr. She grew up in a family of quilters and her latest winning quilt, <em>Z is for Zoey<\/em>, was made for her granddaughter, Zoey Rose, Mary&#8217;s &#8220;very own mini-me.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-outstanding-modern-quilt\/attachment\/marykerr\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4952\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4952\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MaryKerr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"379\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A Road 2016 faculty member and curator of the special exhibit,<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/special-quilt-exhibits\/road-2016-special-exhibit-quilt-as-desired\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <em>Quilt As Desired<\/em><\/a>, Mary has a special affection for vintage designs.\u00a0She\u00a0wanted this piece to reflect the convergence of the past\u2026.her love of vintage with the excitement of the future\u2026.Zoey\u2019s place in the modern world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Z is for Zoey<\/em> was inspired by a a single long strip from the 1930s. Tongues of fabric had been hand appliqu\u00e9d with black thread on both sides of a muslin strip. It was never incorporated into a quilt and at one point someone even cut out one of the fabrics to reuse. The quilt married Mary&#8217;s &#8220;love of vintage textiles with the freshness of the Modern quilt aesthetic.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mary thought long and hard about the design. Once she decided how to create the &#8220;Z,&#8221; the top came together in just a couple of days. Then, according to Mary,\u00a0Karen McTavish &#8220;added the perfect background with her distinctive lace quilting.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While both Karen and Mary were &#8220;very pleased&#8221; that<em> Z for Zoey<\/em> won Outstanding Modern Quilt, Mary says, &#8220;My Zoey takes full credit for the win!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For the near future, Mary plans to\u00a0continue to teach, write books and hopefully inspire others to work with vintage fabrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can learn more about Mary on her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marywkerr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n\n]]>\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":true,"_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":[31,32,38],"tags":[125,635,727,779,1366],"class_list":["post-4949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-2017","category-road-to-california","category-winning-quilts","tag-award-winning-quilts","tag-karen-mctavish","tag-mary-kerr","tag-modern-quilts","tag-vintage-quilts"],"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\/4949","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=4949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}