{"id":5092,"date":"2017-08-09T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T22:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=5092"},"modified":"2017-08-09T15:00:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T22:00:52","slug":"international-quilter-a-big-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/09\/international-quilter-a-big-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"International Quilter A Big Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hirokomiyama.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hiroko Miyama<\/a> creates beautiful, award winning quilts from her home in Tokyo, Japan.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/international-quilter-a-big-winner\/attachment\/hiroko-miyama\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5093\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5093\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hiroko-Miyama.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"515\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\nShe says that she was a &#8220;born handicraft maker.&#8221; When her younger son entered elementary school, Hiroko thought it was a good time to start something new. At that time, hand quilting was just getting popular in Japan and she thought, this was it! After she began hand quilting, she stopped doing her other handicrafts like knitting, dress making and embroidering.\nHiroko confesses that she has been \u201caddicted to machine quilting for 8 years.\u201d Most of Hiroko\u2019s designs are her interpretations of beautiful scenery around Nagano, Japan, and of flowers and fairy tales. Recently, her husband Mosanobu Miyama, has collaborated on some of her designs.\nAt Road 2017, Hiroko won first place in the Art Human Image category for her quilt,<em> Lily<\/em>. Hiroko received $1,000 from sponsor, Maywood Studio\/EE Schenck Company for her winning entry.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/international-quilter-a-big-winner\/attachment\/12918-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5095\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5095\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/12918-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a>\nFor this piece, Hiroko wanted to depict her granddaughter Natsumi as an elegant lady when she came to visit her cottage. Hiroko remarked that the resulting snow tanned face on Natsumi was not her original intention but that it didn\u2019t hinder the results.\nIt took 4 months (or about 800 hours) for Hiroko to make and quilt <em>Lily<\/em>. This project challenged Hiroko to harmonize the quilt with her original machine embroidery. She designs, \u201cpunches,\u201d (creates the embroidery data) and then does the actual embroidery. Hiroko reported that \u201c300 hours were required for embroidery only.\u201d\nWhen she heard she had won, \u201cI and my husband celebrated by drinking a couple of mug of beer.\u201d They travelled from Japan to see the quilt at Road 2017. \u201cI really enjoyed the show.\u201d\nWhat did Hiroko do with her prize money? \u201cI bought fabrics and threads, of course!\u201d\nFor the near future, Hiroko plans on having Lily displayed at AQS Quiltweek in Grand Rapid and then on to Fall Paducah.\nCongratulations, Hiroko, on another winning design.\n&nbsp;]]>\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":[31,32,38],"tags":[124,125,515,600],"class_list":["post-5092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-2017","category-road-to-california","category-winning-quilts","tag-award-winning-quilter","tag-award-winning-quilts","tag-hiroko-miyama","tag-japanese-quilter"],"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\/5092","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=5092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}