{"id":701,"date":"2013-04-19T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=701"},"modified":"2013-04-19T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T13:00:24","slug":"meet-kali-stone-elementary-school-quilter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/19\/meet-kali-stone-elementary-school-quilter\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Kali Stone: Elementary School Quilter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=702\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-702\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-702\" alt=\"Kali4\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kali4-854x1024.jpg\" width=\"683\" height=\"819\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kali Stone is just 9-1\/2 years old and already is quite an accomplished quilter. She inherited her love of quilting from her grandmother, Phyllis Morrow, who is the quilt display\u00a0coordinator\u00a0at Road. From the time Kali was very small, she watched her grandma quilt and wanted to try it herself. So Grandma Phyllis bought Kali a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=janome+hello+kitty&amp;tag=googhydr-20&amp;index=aps&amp;hvadid=6690489927&amp;hvpos=1t1&amp;hvexid=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=542691011800710496&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=b&amp;hvdev=c&amp;ref=pd_sl_4ltrw3v2vd_b\"><em>Hello Kitty Janome<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 model sewing machine when Kali was just six years old. That was all Kali needed to begin designing and sewing her own quilt creations.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=703\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-703\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-703\" alt=\"Kali2\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kali2-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"819\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Kali likes to incorporate \u201crandom ideas\u201d into her designs. Her first quilt had a cupcake theme and was entered in a quilt show. Other themes Kali has featured include soccer, bugs, and Halloween. Kali is currently working on a dog quit for her Chihuahua, Duke, using several dog designed fabrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Quilting\u00a0isn&#8217;t\u00a0Kali\u2019s only sewing projects. She has designed and made dog costumes for Duke and she likes to embroider too.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=704\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-704\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-704\" alt=\"Kali1\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kali1-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"819\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Like other devoted quilters, Kali came to Road to look at the quilts to get new inspiration. She also bought some crystals and charms, an embroidery kit from the<em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aflembroidery.com\/\">African Folklore Challenge,<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and an ink set and stencils.<em>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Kali sees herself sewing \u201cfor the rest of her life.\u201d She can\u2019t wait to inherit her Grandma\u2019s and Aunt\u2019s stash to use for all her future creations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/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":[22,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-road-to-california"],"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\/701","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=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}