{"id":6513,"date":"2019-03-29T17:17:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T00:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=6513"},"modified":"2019-03-29T17:17:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T00:17:15","slug":"outstanding-modern-quilt-road-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/29\/outstanding-modern-quilt-road-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding Modern Quilt Road 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\n

Christine\nPerrigo won $2,500 for winning Outstanding Modern Quilt from Sponsor, OLFA\nNorth America, for Ohio Snowball<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Christine\nPerrigo is an award-winning, internationally exhibited longarm quilter who has\nbeen quilting since 2003. Her quilting journey began when she bought a quilting\nbook as a gift for her mother-in-law to be. \nBefore wrapping the present, Christine read through the book and became \u201cintrigued\u201d\nwith the whole quilting process. Christine\u2019s first quilt was a tumbling block\nquilt, English Paper pieced.  She says, \u201cThe\noutcome was so satisfying that I promptly started another and then\nanother.  I was hooked\u2026\u201d And by the\nway— her mother in law never received the book!!! <\/p>\n\n\n

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With a\nbackground in computer science and 15 years\u2019 experience in the computer\nindustry, Christine has a unique, highly technical approach to computerized\nquilting and surface design. She focuses on high end, custom digital quilting\nfor modern quilts and approaches each quilt as opportunity to explore new\nterritory and push boundaries. <\/p>\n\n\n

Ohio Snowball <\/em>was designed for a quilt challenge that one of the modern guilds Christine belongs to was having. The challenge was to make a modern quilt<\/a> inspired by traditional piecing. It also included the restriction that the modern quilt had to be black and white with the addition of one other color. This limit gave Christine the color palette to allow her to create a primary and secondary pattern. <\/p>\n\n\n

The piecing for\nOhio Snowball <\/em>was inspired by\noverlapping and playing with the scale of two very traditional quilting\ndesigns, an Ohio Star block and a Flowering Snowball block.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The quilt\ntop itself took Christine over a year to piece. Along the way, she invented and\nmodified methods to achieve the precise transparency effects. Christine related\nthat \u201cthere was lots of glue used to ensure that the curves matched perfectly.\u201d\n<\/p>\n\n\n

After piecing the top, it sat for another year while Christine struggled with how to quilt it. She was perplexed because while she knew that generally a secondary design is created with the quilting, this quilt already had a primary and secondary design in the piecing. She got an answer to her problem while at QuiltCon 2017, when Christine met Pamela Wiley<\/a>. Pamela encouraged Christine with the words \u201cmore is more\u201d and reassured Christine that a simple plan was not going to satisfying enough for her. Christine said that, \u201cUnbelievably, the quilting came to me in a dream. Sometimes I do my best work while asleep! I had to learn to trust my instincts and, in the end, created something that not only defines me as an artist, but has allowed me to take digital quilting to the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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When the\nemail came from Road to California that she had won Outstanding Modern Quilt,\nChristine was working on another quilt. She said her win \u201ctook a while\u201d for it\nto sink in, after the initial \u201cshock and lots of giggling\u201d wore off. \u201cI\ncouldn\u2019t believe that my quit had been chosen!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

What did Christine\ndo with her prize money for Outstanding Modern Quilt? \u201cWell, I have had my eye\non some fabric\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

Next up for\nChristine is to continue teaching more of her computerized quilting methods and\ninspiring others to think outside the box. <\/p>\n\n\n

To learn more about Christine, please visit her website.<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n]]>\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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