{"id":6745,"date":"2019-08-30T16:55:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T23:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.road2ca.com\/blog\/?p=6745"},"modified":"2019-09-03T14:21:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T21:21:55","slug":"judges-favorite-quilts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/30\/judges-favorite-quilts\/","title":{"rendered":"Judges\u2019 Favorite Quilts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Road to California is fortunate to be able to call on quilt industry leaders to be the judges for its annual Quilt Contest. For Road to California 2019, the judges were David Taylor<\/a>, Linda V. Taylor<\/a> and Kimberly Einmo<\/a>. Together, in an all-day process, they determined who received the $92,000 in prize money to the over 200 quilts accepted for judging. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"judges'<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After the\njudges determined the main prizes, they then got to pick which quilts were\ntheir judges\u2019 favorite quilts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judges\u2019\nFavorite Quilts: David Taylor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

David chose\nfor his judges\u2019 favorite quilts, Happy Easter<\/em>, which was made and\nquilted by Aki Sakai. Aki received $1,000 for her miniature quilt.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"judges'<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From Japan,\nAki has been quilting for over 25 years. She says her quilt designs always\nrepresents her \u201cfavorite things.\u201d Aki remarked, \u201cI like cute and small things\nvery much. And I like to make seasonal quilts. The Easter bunny in the middle\nis my daughter. Her Japanese zodiac sign is rabbit, and she belonged to the\njuggling club.\u201d Even though it is a miniature quilt, it took Aki about 5 months\nto make. It is entirely handmade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"judges'<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Judges\u2019\nFavorite Quilts: Linda Taylor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Guns N\u2019 Roses <\/em>received Linda V. Taylor\u2019s designation for judges\u2019 favorite quilt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was made by Karen Brandt and quilted by Karen McTavish. The two Karens received $1,000 from Sponsor, Sew Cherished<\/a>, for their award-winning quilt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Karen Brandt said that her \u201cfavorite applique is Baltimore style.  Guns N\u2019 Roses is Baltimore with a Texas twist.\u201d It took about one year for her to complete this design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judge\u2019s\nFavorite Quilts: Kimberly Einmo<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The bright and whimsical, Pear Drops<\/em>, was chosen by Kimberly Einmo for her judges\u2019 favorite quilts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Made and quilted by Cheryl Kerestes, Cheryl\u2019s original design was \u201cinspired by a love of flower gardening, appliqu\u00e9, machine quilting and embroidery.\u201d The quilt took two years to make and was made from “unusual fabric colors” in her stash. Cheryl commented that this quilt was made “step by step without a plan, not knowing how it would work out.” She said she learned that a person can “make a quilt without planning the whole thing.” Cheryl also received $1,000 for her work. Her prize was presented by Sponsor, Wonderfil Specialty Threads<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to our wonderful judges for combining their years of quilting experience and expertise in awarding Road 2019 prize winners. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Road to California is fortunate to be able to call on quilt industry leaders to be the judges for its annual Quilt Contest. For Road to California 2019, the judges were David Taylor, Linda V. Taylor and Kimberly Einmo. Together, in an all-day process, they determined who received the $92,000 in prize money to the […]<\/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-6745","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\/6745","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=6745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6756,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6745\/revisions\/6756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}