{"id":5769,"date":"2018-05-02T15:35:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T22:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=5769"},"modified":"2018-05-02T15:35:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T22:35:02","slug":"so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-outstanding-wall-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/02\/so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-outstanding-wall-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"So You Want To Make A Winning Quilt: Outstanding Wall Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tRobin Gausebeck received $5,000 from Sponsor, Janome, for Art of the Ancient World <\/em>at Road to California 2018\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Robin Gausebeck did not set out to be a quilter, let alone an award winning quilter.<\/p>\n\n\nA few years ago, when Robin moved in to a new house, there was a tall blank wall in the stairwell that needed some color. She thought she could find \u201ca nice long piece of fabric, hang it up and be done.\u201d Only problem: she couldn’t find anything that she and her husband liked. In her search, however, Robin DID find a book by Pamela Mostek<\/a> called “Just Can’t Cut It” which featured simple quilts that Robin figured she could attempt to make. After all, thought Robin, she did know how to use a sewing machine!!\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\nThat first quilt, which she revised to measure 4′ x 8\u2019, was full of beautiful Asian fabrics but Robin felt that her \u201cworkmanship was atrocious since I really didn’t know what I was doing.\u201d Consequently, her personal embarrassed kept her from letting anyone else see that quilt.\u00a0 However, the process of using a variety of fabrics and colors fascinated her and she knew she wanted to do more.\nWhat inspired Robin to make Art of the Ancient World<\/em>? About 8 years ago, she and her husband were passing through Lincoln, Nebraska. They stopped at the International Quilt Study Center and viewed a collection of Baltimore album quilts.\u00a0 They weren\u2019t Robin\u2019s \u201cthing\u201d but her husband was fascinated with the style and began mentioning to Robin how much fun it would be for her to make an album quilt.\u00a0 After listening to his hints over the years, Robin decided that it would be \u201cokay for me to do an album quilt but it was going to be on my terms.\u201d Although Robin didn\u2019t consider herself a \u201cfolk-art person,\u201d she always had been interested in art history and figured that she could pull design inspiration from the decorative arts of early civilizations from around the globe.\nArt of the Ancient World <\/em>took over two years to complete. Some of that time, Robin spent researching in libraries, on the internet and with her own art books trying to design each of the 16 blocks.\u00a0 After she made the first two blocks, Robin hit a creative wall and put the quilt aside for about 6 months until she determined that she had to finish it.\"\"<\/a>\nRobin shared that she learned a lot from making this quilt. She learned a lot about art history<\/strong> that she hadn\u2019t known before. She learned some new quilting techniques. <\/strong>And she learned that \u201cI will probably never make another quilt like this<\/strong> as long as I live!!\u201d\"\"<\/a>\nWhen Robin received the email about winning, it was after a long day during which she and her husband realized that they would have to say goodbye to the last of the many loved cats they had owned over the years.\u00a0 Robin had actually forgotten about when Road would be sending the notifications out so she was totally blindsided when the email said that she had won. She said that she \u201cactually screamed out loud\u201d when she read the email and then \u201crushed to tell my husband since this really is \u2018his\u2019 quilt.\u201d\nWhile Robin would love to say that she spent her prize money on fabric, a new machine, or a quilt retreat, she actually applied it to some household maintenance. She hopes to also spend some of her winnings on \u201ca nice dinner and bottle of wine, too.\u201d\nWhat does Robin plan to work on in the future? \u201cI have more ideas for quilts than I will ever have time to do.\u00a0 I love color and form so I think I’d like to veer off in the direction of more abstract work but who knows?\u00a0 An interesting idea (actually a title since that’s how most of my quilts start) may pop into my head and I’ll go off in another direction entirely.\u201d\nCongratulations Robin Gausebeck for winning Road 2018\u2019s Outstanding Wall Quilt.\n ]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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