{"id":6830,"date":"2019-09-28T12:45:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T19:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.road2ca.com\/blog\/?p=6830"},"modified":"2019-09-28T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T19:45:08","slug":"winning-quilt-best-domestic-machine-quilting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/28\/winning-quilt-best-domestic-machine-quilting\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning Quilt: Best Domestic Machine Quilting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Andrea\nBrokenshire won $2,500 from Sponsor, Baby Lock, for Dance of the Twirly\nGirls<\/em>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2019 Road\nto California winner for Best Domestic Machine Quilting was a quilt made and dedicated\nto Andrea Brokenshire\u2019s two aunts,  Aunt\nEsther and Aunt Helen.  Andrea shared\nthat both women \u201cleft there earthly bounds within a month of each other\u201d a year\nago in winter. Andrea said that she \u201cneeded to put my sadness somewhere so, I\npulled out the fuchsia top that I had painted that previous summer and turned\nmy sadness into joy.  These fuchsia\nblossoms were at least 4-5″ long and danced in the wind.  While stitching, I thought of my aunties\ntwirling around in a joyous dance. They are the Twirly Girls.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took\nAndrea about one month to paint the quilt and four months to do the domestic\nmachine quilting. Andrea always stitches her quilts using a stationary quilting\nmachine. The hardest part for this accomplished and award winning quilter in\nmaking Dance of the Twirly Girls <\/em> was\nto reduce the effect of the weight of the quilt so that the quilt moved\nsmoothly under the needle while stitching, especially in the center of the\nquilt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When she\nreceived the email from Road telling her she had won Best Domestic Machine\nQuilting, Andrea said, \u201cI was gobsmacked! Very, very happy. Especially because\nI know that the talent presented was phenomenal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andrea has\nbeen sewing since she was a child and had created several other needle crafts\nprojects over the years. Her quilting journey began when she moved to Texas and\njoined a stitching group to meet people with similar interests. One of the\nwomen in the group was a quilter and she convinced everyone to make a round\nrobin style picnic quilt. After that project, Andrea wanted to make an applique\nquilt. She taught herself the technique from an applique book. When that quilt\nwas finished, Andrea felt she had officially \u201ccaught the quilting bug\u201d and has\nbeen creating in fabric ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winning Best Domestic Machine Quilting was not Andrea\u2019s first quilting award from Road to California. In 2017, she won Best Use of Color for <\/a>Blue Anemone<\/a><\/em>. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What are Andrea\u2019s\nfuture quilting plans? \u201cI like to challenge myself with each quilt I create,\nand I plan to continue that practice. I also look forward to sharing my art as\na quilt educator. I also have plans to exhibit my work museum exhibitions and\nvarious quilt shows.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations Andrea for winning Best Domestic Machine Quilting at Road to California 2019. To learn more about Andrea and her work, follow her on her Facebook Account, AMB Fiber Art & Design<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrea Brokenshire won $2,500 from Sponsor, Baby Lock, for Dance of the Twirly Girls   The 2019 Road to California winner for Best Domestic Machine Quilting was a quilt made and dedicated to Andrea Brokenshire\u2019s two aunts,  Aunt Esther and Aunt Helen.  Andrea shared that both women \u201cleft there earthly bounds within a month 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-6830","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\/6830","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=6830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6835,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions\/6835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}