{"id":6033,"date":"2018-09-05T16:36:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T23:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=6033"},"modified":"2018-09-05T16:36:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T23:36:15","slug":"so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-best-domestic-machine-quilting-road-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-best-domestic-machine-quilting-road-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"So You Want To Make A Winning Quilt? Best Domestic Machine Quilting Road 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Susan E. Stewart received $2,500 for <em>Gilded Roses<\/em> from Sponsor Baby Lock<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california-2018\/so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-best-domestic-machine-quilting-road-2018\/attachment\/gilded-roses\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6034\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6034\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gilded-Roses.jpg\" alt=\"Gilded Roses Winning quilt\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When you ask Susan Stewart how long she has been sewing, her reply is, \u201cAll my life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\nSusan spent many years doing heirloom sewing for a company in Alabama. She started her quilting path in 2004 and won a blue ribbon at <a href=\"http:\/\/quilts.com\/quilt-festival-houston.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quilt Festival in Houston<\/a> for her very first quilt. No wonder she exclaimed, \u201cI was hooked!\u201d\n<em>Gilded Roses<\/em> was inspired by the lacy, watercolor-y rose machine embroidery design from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanthreads.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Urban Threads.<\/a> Susan said she could picture the roses done in a rainbow of different shades, adding a touch of variety to an all-white and gold quilt. She added some lacy, scroll-y gold swirl designs from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.embroideryonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OESD<\/a> to pick up on the lacy designs in the rose motifs and then added some large lace designs. The lace designs are <a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/vendors\/john-deers-adorable-ideas-and-the-art-of-digitizing-embroidery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Deer Adorable Designs<\/a> are stitched on the fabric and are also done as free-standing work along the edges. The quilting was done to add interest and to highlight the embroidery.\nIt took Susan 2\u00bd months to complete <em>Gilded Roses<\/em>, \u201cthe shortest time ever to finish a quilt!\u201d She said that she had just finished another quilt and guessed that she \u201cwas on a roll!\u201d What was Susan\u2019s biggest takeaway from making <em>Gilded Roses<\/em>? \u00a0\u201cI learned that it is very time-consuming to stitch the binding on entirely by hand!\u201d\nSusan said she had forgotten that she had entered\u00a0<em>Gilded Roses<\/em> in Road\u2019s 2018 quilt contest. When she received the notice that she had won, she was at home, recovering from some physical issues. Susan was thrilled and delighted to win Best Domestic Machine Quilting for <em>Gilded Roses\u00a0<\/em>and exclaimed, \u201cWoohoo! $2500!\u201d\nWhat was Susan going to do with her prize money? \u201cHonestly, it will go toward bills.\u201d\nSusan isn\u2019t sure what the next step will be in her quilting adventure. \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u00a0 Recent events have thrown a big curve ball at me, and I don\u2019t know where I\u2019ll land. If I can continue making contest quilts, I will. If I can\u2019t, then I\u2019ll re-invent myself! Where will you see me next? Who knows!\u201d\nCongratulations Susan for winning Best Domestic Machine Quilting for <em>Gilded Roses\u00a0<\/em>and best wishes for your future endeavors.]]>\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":[33,38],"tags":[463,542,572,619,836,1345,1389],"class_list":["post-6033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-to-california-2018","category-winning-quilts","tag-gilded-rose","tag-houston","tag-international-quilt-festival","tag-john-deers-adorable-ideas","tag-oesd","tag-urban-threads","tag-winning-quilt"],"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\/6033","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=6033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}