{"id":6569,"date":"2019-07-02T08:44:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T15:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.road2ca.com\/blog\/?p=6569"},"modified":"2019-07-01T12:45:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T19:45:17","slug":"best-longarm-machine-quilting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/02\/best-longarm-machine-quilting\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Longarm Machine Quilting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Summer Christmas<\/em> was made by Mariya Waters<\/a> and was quilted by Gina Perkes-Tidwell.<\/a> Sponsor Baby Lock awarded $2,500 to the winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Best Longarm Machine Quilting winning quilt came all the way from Australia to be entered in to Road to California 2019\u2019s quilt contest!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who is Mariya Waters?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The maker of\nSummer Christmas<\/em>, Mariya Waters, began\nquilting in 1989 in New Zealand after having seen her first quilt while\nstudying for an embroidery qualification. \nShe moved to the United Kingdom in 1991 and won her first quilting award\nin 1993. From then on, every quilt Mariya\nhas ever entered in a quilt show has won an award!!  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mariya and her family moved to Australia in 1999 where she continues to quilt and teach today. In 2008, Mariya won the title, Best of Australia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How was Summer Christmas created?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

What was the\ninspiration behind the Best Longarm Machine Quilting winner, Summer Christmas<\/em>? In 2005, Mariya\u2019s mother\nwas diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s Disease. During her mother\u2019s long journey,\nMariya studied design from multiple cultures, looking for common design\nelements.  She discovered a whole world of common designs using\nstencil art<\/strong> from the 19th and 20th centuries.  It was from these designs that Mariya put\ntogether Summer Christmas<\/em> to give her\nsomething to sew while looking after her mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This Best\nLongarm Machine Quilting winner took 10 years to complete. It was started in May\n2006 as a 24\u201d Christmas table runner. Mariya revised the design in 2007 to be a\n36\u201d table cloth. She extended the project two more times until it finally ended\nup being 102\u201d. The appliqu\u00e9 was finished in March 2016.  Mariya noted that she took a two-year break,\nin 2008-2009, to complete another major quilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe only\nway to construct this quilt with the accuracy demanded was to use preprinted\nfusible polyester fibre templates that remained in the quilt,\u201d shared Mariya.\nShe also had to develop a method of joining the various borders together using\nscallops. Summer Christmas <\/em>has 996,\nquarter inch red dots which were each drawn up over a template.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because Mariya developed some health issues during this project, she realized that she needed to form a collaborative partnership with a quilter to be able to finish the quilt.\u00a0 So, in 2016, she partnered with quilter Gina Perkes-Tidwell. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The scariest part for both of them was washing the glues out of the quilt before it was bound.\u00a0 Mariya spent 4,000 hours and 20 glue sticks<\/strong> in turning the edges of the appliqu\u00e9. Gina had invested more than 500 hours in quilting<\/strong> it and the washing result then was going to affect both of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding out Summer Christmas was a Longarm Quilting Winner<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There is a\n17-hour time lag between Australia and the United States. Mariya has just come\nhome from a day out with her friends (where she was constantly looking at the\nphone) when the results of Road\u2019s judges came in. She was \u201cabsolutely delighted\u201d\nto hear about the win as \u201cboth Gina and I poured our heart and soul into the\nquilt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mariya plans\nto use her part of the prize money for this Best Longarm Machine Quilting\nwinner on travel to future quilt shows. She will continue to teach and is \u201cworking\nvery hard\u201d on another quilt that has been under constant work since November\n2016.  She hopes the appliqu\u00e9 will be\nfinished in late 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about Mariya and see some of her other work, please visit her website<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summer Christmas was made by Mariya Waters and was quilted by Gina Perkes-Tidwell. Sponsor Baby Lock awarded $2,500 to the winners. This Best Longarm Machine Quilting winning quilt came all the way from Australia to be entered in to Road to California 2019\u2019s quilt contest!! Who is Mariya Waters? The maker of Summer Christmas, Mariya […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"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\/6569","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=6569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6575,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569\/revisions\/6575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}