{"id":6400,"date":"2019-02-08T18:54:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T01:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=6400"},"modified":"2019-02-08T18:54:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T01:54:26","slug":"prince-and-cherrywood-hand-dyed-fabrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/08\/prince-and-cherrywood-hand-dyed-fabrics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prince Cherrywood Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\n

What a tradition Cherrywood Hand Dyed Fabrics has started!!<\/p>\n\n\n

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For the past four years, Cherrywood Hand Dyed Fabrics has sponsored a unique quilt challenge. Using the themes of famous musicals and people, entrants are given a palette of Cherrywood Hand Dyed fabrics that accentuate the theme to come up with their own unique design. It began with the musical Wicked<\/a>, then The Lion King<\/a>, followed by artist, Vincent van Gogh<\/a>. In 2018, the challenge was Prince\u2014the iconic Purple Rain<\/em> singer and actor who passed away in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Prince Cherrywood Challenge received 388 submissions and of those, 165 were chosen as finalists to be juried in to the Prince traveling show. The Special Exhibit of the Prince Cherrywood Challenge came to Road to California 2019 and was seen by over 42,000 guests. On Saturday of the Show, some of the Prince finalists came to the show to sign books and share how they came up with their winning idea.<\/p>\n\n\n

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First time\nentrants, Florann Ramsey and Cindy Meyers, were excited to be included. Cindy\nentered because she loves the color purple and she loves Prince. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Florann took\nher project on a family vacation to begin work on it. Her kids said her\noriginal design was \u201cawful,\u201d so she went back to the drawing board to come up\nwith her winning design which is based on three of Prince\u2019s songs.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Barb\nZeleznik\u2019s \u201cVinyl Prince,\u201d is a tribute to all of Prince\u2019s record albums. She\nincluded Prince\u2019s face, signature and star from First Avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Michelle\nBaker and Annette McCusker are sisters. Michelle lives in Montana and Annette\nlives in Glendora, California. Michelle had previously been a part of\nCherrywood\u2019s vanGogh exhibit. When Annette saw her sister\u2019s work last year, it\ngave her the courage to try this contest. Says Annette, \u201cbeing accepted was a\nbonus!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Annette\u2019s\ndaughter, Tracy, who is an artist, came up with the designs for both her mom\u2019s\nand aunt\u2019s winning quilts. Michelle\u2019s quilt, \u201cBeautiful One,\u201d  has lots of Prince symbolism: music staffs,\nscariness, and of course, a dove. Annette\u2019s winning design, \u201cGood Morning,\u201d has\nan electronic music theme.      <\/p>\n\n\n

Several Prince Cherrywood Challenge winners were also accepted for the Cherrywood van Gogh Challenge Exhibit last year:<\/h2>\n\n\n

Diane Mezerkor\u2019s daughters (who are in their 40\u2019s) knew many of Prince\u2019s songs and gave their mom ideas on how to utilize \u201cLittle Red Corvette,\u201d in her design.<\/p>\n\n\n

Kay Loboda\nsaid she chose her theme, \u201cMysterious Prince,\u201d because \u201cyou never knew what was\ngoing on with him; he didn\u2019t give any clue to his emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sally Wright\nconfided that \u201cI had missed the Prince generation.\u201d Around the time of the\nannouncement of the challenge, Sally had an appointment with her CPA to do her\ntaxes and she asked him what he knew about Prince. He said he sang, \u201cStarfish\nand Coffee,\u201d every night to his kids. After listening to the song for the first\ntime, Sally fell in love with imagery of the lyrics.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Because she\nwas so inspired last year, there was no doubt that Cindy Thompson wanted to\nparticipate in the next Cherrywood Challenge. Her \u201cReigning Prince,\u201d includes a\npaisley crown and teardrops for \u201crain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Nancy Causey\nwas another winner who didn\u2019t know much about Prince when she applied for the\nchallenge. \u201cA challenge forces you to learn,\u201d said Nancy. Her quilt was a\ncollage of who Prince was.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Four Time\nParticipant<\/h2>\n\n\n

Marilyn Fromherz was the only quilter at Road who had winning entries in all four Cherrywood Challenges. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have missed it,\u201d she exclaimed. She loves the fabric and tries new techniques each year to enhance it. For the Prince Cherrywood Challenge, she utilized stenciling, fusibles, and embroidery to set the stage. \u201cIt was a fun thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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The next Cherrywood Challenge was on display at the Cherrywood Booth during Road to California. The theme for 2019 is “The Happy Painter,” Bob Ross. He hosted the popular PBS show, The Joy of Painting<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>which\u00a0ran\u00a0from\u00a01983-1994. <\/p>\n\n\n

For the first time, instead of using one color palette for the challenge, Cherrywood has selected eight <\/em>different fabric colors. Prospective contestants have until July 1, 2019 to submit their entries.<\/p>\n\n\n

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For more information about the Cherrywood Hand Dyed Fabrics and their Challenges, please visit their website.<\/a> <\/p>\n]]>\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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