{"id":7489,"date":"2020-03-24T19:31:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T02:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.road2ca.com\/blog\/?p=7489"},"modified":"2020-03-24T19:31:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T02:31:21","slug":"missouri-barn-outstanding-artistry-road-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/24\/missouri-barn-outstanding-artistry-road-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Barn – Outstanding Artistry \u2013 Road 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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LeAnn Hileman received $5,000 from Sponsor, Handi Quilter<\/a>, for her winning entry, Missouri Barn.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

For LeAnn Hileman<\/a>, fabrics had always felt like love to her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LeAnn\u2019s mother and grandmother both sewed. When LeAnn was little, a doll quilt was made for her by her grandmother who was going blind due to untreated cataracts.\u00a0 LeAnn treasured that tiny quilt for a time and then \u201cit went the way of solo socks and mittens.\u201d\u00a0 When LeAnn was in high school, she made her first quilt and then set quilting aside for many years until she was pregnant with her son \u2013 nearly two decades later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

First Quilt\nShow Attempts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The first\nshow LeAnn entered and showed in was the annual show of the Arizona Quilt Guild\nin 2013.  She was \u201cgreatly disappointed\u201d\nwhen she didn\u2019t win anything.  Despite\nthat, LeAnn became even more determined to find her creative way and not copy\nwhat others were doing.  She kept making\nshow quilts and entering shows because knowing that the quilts would be seen\nand judged motivated her to dig deeper, stretch further and aim higher. Says\nLeAnn, \u201cIf it doesn\u2019t look to be impossible at the outset, what\u2019s the point?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Making\nof Missouri Barn<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

LeAnn and her three \u201cquilting besties\u201d attended an AQS Paducah <\/a>Spring show and then traveled by car to Hamilton, Missouri, to experience the Missouri Star Quilt Company<\/a>.\u00a0 As they were exploring the nearby towns, they passed an intriguing and obviously once prosperous farmstead.\u00a0\u00a0 LeAnn and her friends made a quick U-turn, hopped out and took photographs.\u00a0 She wanted to \u201cKNOW what happened there, who lived there, and everything about it.\u201d\u00a0 All that curiosity went into making her quilt, Missouri Barn<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

It took LeAnn about took about 5 to 6 months to make Missouri Barn, <\/em>but the pondering of her photographs went on long before that.\u00a0 She said that she learned a lot about sky and clouds from doing this quilt.\u00a0 For example, Candy<\/em> is the shade of the Kona<\/a> cotton blue that became the \u201clovely deep sky color.\u201d The clouds had to be faced with at least one additional layer of white (or other color) to give them \u201cthe depth\u201d LeAnn was after. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Winning\nOutstanding Artistry at Road 2020<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

LeAnn first\nrealized she had won Outstanding Artistry when her friend had posed in front of\nMissouri Barn<\/em> with the ribbon at the show and posted the photo on\nFacebook.  LeAnn said she \u201cwas amazed and\nthrilled to know I had won this particular prize especially as I strive for\ncreativity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With her\nprize money, LeAnn purchased fabric, \u201cfirst of all.\u201d She is also planning on\ntreating herself to a retreat in some wonderful location \u2013 after the\nCoronavirus precautions are over.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations, LeAnn Hileman for winning Outstanding Artistry at Road to California 2020-25th<\/sup> Anniversary Show. To Learn more about LeAnn and her work, visit her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LeAnn Hileman received $5,000 from Sponsor, Handi Quilter, for her winning entry, Missouri Barn. For LeAnn Hileman, fabrics had always felt like love to her. LeAnn\u2019s mother and grandmother both sewed. When LeAnn was little, a doll quilt was made for her by her grandmother who was going blind due to untreated cataracts.\u00a0 LeAnn treasured […]<\/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-7489","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\/7489","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=7489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7494,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7489\/revisions\/7494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}