{"id":6800,"date":"2019-09-17T11:42:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T18:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.road2ca.com\/blog\/?p=6800"},"modified":"2019-09-17T11:42:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T18:42:23","slug":"a-winning-group-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/17\/a-winning-group-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"A Winning Group Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The winning group quilt, Star Shower, <\/em>was made by members of the Piecepatchers Bee and was quilted by Suzanne Irving. They received $1,000 from Sponsor, Yazzii International Pty Ltd<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes it\nis hard enough to individually work on a quilt let alone work on a design with\nlots of other quilters. In the case of Road to California 2019\u2019s Best Group\nQuilt, Star Shower, <\/em>it involved 16 quilters to make this winning group\nquilt!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Piecepatchers Bee has been in existence for about 25 years. The pattern for Star Shower <\/em>was designed by Bee member, Evelyn George, as a fundraiser for Quilt For a Cause, Inc.<\/a>, a Tucson-based non-profit that sells and auctions donated quilts and patterns to help fight breast and gynecologic cancer.\u00a0 It took the group nearly a year to complete this winning group quilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nPiecepatchers Bee has made several group quilts in the past. When they start\nout to make a group quilt, they make kits, and each member makes several of the\nblocks.  A few members will work together\nto assemble the top, and another member will do the binding and sleeve.  Working with the red fabrics was tricky. The\ngroup learned that even after prewashing all the reds 4 or 5 times, there was\nstill one fabric that bled, and had to be replaced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the\ngroup is made up of accomplished quilters, for the first time, they asked a\nprize-winning quilter, Suzanne Irving, to quilt their project because they felt\n\u201cthe quilting needed to be very special.\u201d \nAnd special it was as the quilt became a winning group quilt!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Suzanne Irving and Evelyn George<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In addition to\nbeing a quilter, Suzanne also serves on the Board for Quilt For a Cause, Inc..\nShe had previously offered to quilt any pattern samples, raffle quilts or\nvintage quilt tops that people wanted to donate.  When the quilt top for Star Shower<\/em> was\nhanded over to her to be quilted, she really wondered what \u201cshe had gotten herself\ninto this time!!!\u201d Suzanne shared, \u201cI’m a very traditional quilter and have\nnever done any type of quilting with all that negative space.  Since the 7 largest stars represent the Big\nDipper, I knew there had to be a moon, sun, and shooting stars…. but there\nwas still a whole lot of space to fill in!! \nI didn’t panic, I just went right to Google for inspiration and made up\na bunch of imaginary “space junk.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prize money\nfor the winning group quilt, Star Showers<\/em>, was donated to Quilt For a\nCause, to help women facing cancer. \nNearly everyone in the group has lost a friend or family member to\nbreast or gynecological cancer.  They felt\ninspired to donate some of their best work to this group because it is run by\nnon-paid volunteers, and almost all the funds raised go directly to support\ntheir mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next\nprojects for the Piecepatchers Bee are a collectibles quilt, a kimono quilt and\na flip flop quilt.  They are using a variety\nof pattern sources, and all of the quilts will first be entered in the Tucson\nQuilt Fiesta and then will be donated to Quilt For a Cause for their next\nauction.  The group will also be making\nquilts for other charities supported by the Tucson Quilters Guild, such as\nHabitat for Humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for\nSuzanne, she recently made her first “art quilt” and quilted a\n“modern quilt” for the Tucson Show last February.  Suzanne said, \u201cThis is about as far away from\nthe traditional quilts that I love dearly. They will either be hilariously bad,\nor amazingly good!  My mantra last year\nwas “low-key” and that seemed to work really great for me.  I’ve been struggling with the one for this\nyear but it just came to me “Go With the Flow”….and keep laughing\nthe entire way!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The winning group quilt, Star Shower, was made by members of the Piecepatchers Bee and was quilted by Suzanne Irving. They received $1,000 from Sponsor, Yazzii International Pty Ltd. Sometimes it is hard enough to individually work on a quilt let alone work on a design with lots of other quilters. In the case of […]<\/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-6800","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\/6800","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=6800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6809,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions\/6809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}