{"id":7523,"date":"2020-04-07T21:22:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T04:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.road2ca.com\/blog\/?p=7523"},"modified":"2020-04-07T21:22:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T04:22:06","slug":"outstanding-wall-quilt-road-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/07\/outstanding-wall-quilt-road-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding Wall Quilt Road 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Margaret\nSolomon Gunn won $5,000 from Sponsor, Janome, for The Value of Violet, <\/em>Road\nto California\u2019s 2020 Outstanding Wall Quilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meet Margaret\nSolomon Gunn <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Margaret Solomon Gunn,<\/a> winner of Road\u2019s Outstanding Wall Quilt for 2020, has quilted much of her life. She learned how to sew over 40 years ago but her journey to quilting was not your typical path. Margaret has college degrees in mechanical and aeronautical engineering and spent nearly 20 years as a professional engineer.\u00a0 When that profession proved too challenging to juggle the needs of 3 kids, Margaret bought a long arm quilting machine and started her own longarm business. For nearly a decade, she has quilted for clients all over the US and Canada. Before the Coronavirus, Margaret was traveling several times a year to national quilt shows, like Road to California, to teach her passion and talents to other eager quilters. Margaret continues to create her own works of art, which have won numerous awards. She has also published dozens of articles in quilting magazines and has five published books to her credit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Margaret is not a stranger to having winning entries at Road to California. Before winning Outstanding Wall Quilt this past year, in 2014, she won the Masterpiece Award<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And in 2017, she won Outstanding Traditional Quilt.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Value of\nViolet<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Value\nof Violet<\/em> gave\nMargaret a chance to explore creating depth, texture and design with just one\ncolor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Margaret\nbegan working on this Outstanding Wall Quilt in 2018 while on a trip to Road to\nCalifornia. It took her about a year to complete and was \u201cwithout a doubt the\nfastest of any show quilt I have done of this size, and with the fewest \u2018issues\u2019\ntoo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Margaret says she often takes a traditional pattern (be it log cabin blocks, or hexagons, or with The Value of Violet, <\/em>orange peels) and modernizes it with either her fabric choice or color. Recently, Margaret has \u201cbeen bitten by the silk bug\u201d since she learned about Kaufman’s silk, Radiance<\/em>. Her quilts have been made in this fabric for the past 7 years. In the summer of 2018, when she learned it was being discontinued, Margaret bought and hoarded 50-60 yards<\/strong> of it for future projects. (Margaret lamented: \u201cWho knew griping to the right people would have it back 18 months later?!)\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the\ntrademarks that has been incorporated in many of Margaret\u2019s quilts is combining\ncommercial cottons with the silk. The Value of Violet<\/em> is no exception. She\nused the silk as the canvas to best show the machine quilting.  Because Margaret \u201cloves handwork,\u201d all the applique\non the quilt is turned edge and stitched by hand. Margaret feels the wide\napplique floral border gives the quilt interest. Rather than making all 4 sides\nof the applique identical, she made them all different, showcasing whimsical\nflora designs rather than making them \u201cpurely realistic.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The top had\na distinctive Asian feel to Margaret, due to the orange peels and the applique,\nso that was the direction she took for quilting the background behind the floral\napplique. The clamshell shape she placed in the pieced diamond corners was\nintended to visually draw the shape of the 3 similarly shaped applique flowers\ninto the quilting. Further, Margaret explained, \u201cthe clamshell motif (as well\nas the pumpkin seed) is derived from the Japanese Sashiko patterns, so it all\nseemed appropriate.\u201d The quilting was done using both a silk thread and a\n40-weight polyester thread and, for the first time,  Margaret tried cutaway trapunto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The edge of\nthe quilt was made up of ninety scallops which were quilted on the longarm. She\nadded the deep plum piping and finished each on the domestic machine. Prairie\npoints were placed behind them in white silk and batik. A pop of white was\nneeded to better tie in the white appliqued ribbon so the final detail Margaret\ndid was to add white pearlescent paint as a way to pull the viewer’s eye to the\nvisual center of the quilt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winning\nOutstanding Wall Quilt<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Margaret\nfound out she won Outstanding Wall Quilt when somebody who was at the show, saw\nthe award, and shared the news with her. Margaret said she was \u201cquite surprised\u201d\nthat The Value of Violet <\/em>won because it had previously attended several\nshows and this was \u201cthe best that it has done at any show.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next\nproject for Margaret is to bring forward the next idea for a silk quilt that is\n\u201clurking in the back of my brain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about Margaret Solomon Gunn, please visit her website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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