{"id":7971,"date":"2020-10-20T20:25:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T03:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.road2ca.com\/blog\/?p=7971"},"modified":"2020-10-20T20:25:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T03:25:45","slug":"looking-back-best-of-show-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/20\/looking-back-best-of-show-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back: Best of Show Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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With the pause in our traditional quilt contest, Road realized that there are probably a lot of quilters who were forced to pause in their creating of potential show winning quilts. Also, there\u2019s probably been a pause for quilters who were looking for new inspiration as well as missing the opportunity to show appreciation for outstanding quilt work. Since we temporarily won\u2019t be able to look forward to our next contest winners, Road realized that perhaps for now, great quilt inspiration will have to be found by looking back<\/em><\/strong>. Do you remember these past Best of Show winners and their award-winning quilts?    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once Upon a Time<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Sharon Schamber<\/a> of Payson, Arizona, received $6,000 in 2014 for her Best of Show winner.<\/a> The quilt was inspired by her love for the romantic and delicate details of the Victorian era. Said Sharon, \u201cI love how things are both simple and complex at the same time. I wanted to create a medallion quilt that spoke to that romantic notion.\u201d Sharon chose blue roses because \u201cthey were unique and the quilt asked\/demanded something special like them.\u201d\u00a0 At the time she started on the quilt, there were no actual blue roses, but by the time she had finished, they became available. Sharon likes to think that \u201cmaybe the quilt knew something that the rest of the world hadn\u2019t thought about yet.\u201d Sharon actually began Once Upon A Time <\/em>in 2000. Her lengthy process to complete this best of show winner taught Sharon that each quilt truly has its own schedule and identity. \u201cYou have to follow the clues it gives you if you want the best out of it and yourself,\u201d remarked Sharon. Even though it took 14 years to finish, Sharon felt it was an amazing adventure and she \u201cenjoyed every minute of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vivaldi by Moonlight<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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In 2015, the prize for Best of Show increased to $10,000. That year, the winner was Sandra Leichner<\/a>, from Albany, Oregon. \u00a0Regarding her winning design, Sandra shared how she wanted to make a different style of wholecloth and at the same time, challenge her skills. She said that she was mostly known for her handwork skills and felt that her machine quilting skills were \u201cinevitably overlooked because the viewer focus was always on my handwork.\u201d From the onset, Sharon said that \u201cI knew I did not want feathers etc. I wanted to create a totally original design in my artistic style using only machine quilting to create the overall design. Although it is a wholecloth, I have used a subtle monochromatic thread color palette to create added depth and incorporate more visual dimension to the intricate twining quilting design.\u201d Vivaldi by Moonlight <\/em>was originally made for Sharon\u2019s bed but when the quilt became \u201ctoo fancy to allow my neurotic kitty Milo, who lives on my bed, to sink his claws into\u201d it, she decided to enter it and \u201csee what would happen.\u201d What happened was the best of show winner for 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silk Road Sampler<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Do you remember the fuss this 2016 best of show winner caused on the show floor? Road received many complaints that maker and quilter, Melissa Sobotka,<\/a> just stitched around one piece of fabric. It wasn\u2019t until one looked up close at the immense detail of this art quilt, that one realized that Silk Road Sampler <\/em>was truly a masterpiece. It took Melissa 5 months to complete this best of show winner which was inspired by a picture she took in the spice market in Istanbul. She thought the designs on the pillows were something that many appliquers would appreciate and that it would be a busy enough design for her to enjoy working on for many months. About 4 months into the project, Melissa wondered. \u201cWhat have I got myself into?\u201d The detail on the bottom section nearly put her into \u201ca straight jacket.\u201d But as with all her quilts, Melissa just \u201cfaced the challenges head on, a little more each day, until it was finally completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is so fun to look back at past best of show winners. Stay tuned for the best of show winners from 2017 – 2020 in our next blog post. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the pause in our traditional quilt contest, Road realized that there are probably a lot of quilters who were forced to pause in their creating of potential show winning quilts. Also, there\u2019s probably been a pause for quilters who were looking for new inspiration as well as missing the opportunity to show appreciation for […]<\/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-7971","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\/7971","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=7971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7976,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971\/revisions\/7976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}