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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nQuilting is in Marilyn Larson\u2019s blood.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
When she left home to start her teaching career, Marilyn Larson\u2019s mother took from the closet a Dresden plate quilt made by Marilyn\u2019s grandmother Alice and their neighbor Netty Boyer. \u00a0Up until that moment, Marilyn had never seen that quilt before and it \u201ctook my breath away.\u201d \u00a0The quilt was made from 1930\u2019s feed sacks on muslin, both hand and machine pieced, appliqu\u00e9d, and hand quilted. \u00a0Marilyn decided then that she \u201chad to learn this beautiful craft.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two Time\nWinner at Road to California <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Marilyn\u2019s\nvery first entry in a Road to California to California quilt contest was an\nappliqu\u00e9 wall quilt entitled, \u201cInspired by Alice\u201d and was awarded a first place\nribbon!!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n The inspiration for Best Piecing Winner, Aurora<\/em>, was an Edyta Sitar pattern, Bethlehem Star. It excited Marilyn because of the \u201cglow\u201d blocks. \u00a0Marilyn worked on color placement using batiks and decided to add a pieced border comprised of the same diamond shape that she used in the star design. \u00a0This pattern was also selected so that her friend, Barb Simons, could have the necessary space to add her amazing quilt stitches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The making\nof quilt top took 1 year but then she ran out of the red and rust colored batik\nfabrics for the pieced border. Refusing to give up on her pieced border idea, Marilyn\nsearched for 3 years until she found fabric that was similar enough to\nuse. So ,in all, it took approximately\n5 years to piece the top and then another year for Barb to do the quilting.\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Marilyn\nsays her major lesson with was to block\nthe top before sewing on the binding. She had sewn on the binding,\nblocked the quilt and discovered the red fabric bled to the backing. Marilyn\nhad to put the quilt into a bath of synthropol to remove the bleed. Then dye\nwas removed but the quilt shrunk, causing the edge to ripple. Off came\nthe binding so that Marilyn could get the edge to lay flat and then sew on the\nbinding for a second time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marilyn\nreceived word that she had won Best Piecing while living at her winter home in\nArizona. Marilyn commented, \u201cI am very proud of myself and pleased to\nreceive this award. My trying to achieve perfection has paid off! I\nam still happy dancing.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n She\nplanned to use her award money to purchase quilting fabric and supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What are\nMarilyn\u2019s future quilting plans? \u201cAs I live and breathe, I quilt. I\nexpect to continue to produce quilt tops and hopefully enter more quilt shows.\n My newest frontier in quilting is long arm quilting. There are so\nmany avenues to explore with this hobby: new techniques to learn, new tools to\ntry, beautiful fabrics to work with, patterns to try, designing, applying what\none learns from other quilters, etc. Since I love traditional patterns,\nthat is where my focus will most likely remain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marilyn Larson won $1,500 for Best Piecing from Sponsor, American Professional Quilting Systems for her quilt, Aurora. Quilting is in Marilyn Larson\u2019s blood. When she left home to start her teaching career, Marilyn Larson\u2019s mother took from the closet a Dresden plate quilt made by Marilyn\u2019s grandmother Alice and their neighbor Netty Boyer. \u00a0Up until […]<\/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-6934","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\/6934","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=6934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6937,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions\/6937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Best](\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/marilyn-larson.jpg\")
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