{"id":7977,"date":"2020-10-23T21:14:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T04:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.road2ca.com\/blog\/?p=7977"},"modified":"2020-10-23T21:14:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T04:14:27","slug":"remembering-best-of-show-quilts-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/23\/remembering-best-of-show-quilts-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Best of Show Quilts- Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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This past week, our show\u2019s owner, Matt Reese<\/a>, announced changes to our annual quilt contest for Road@Home 2021<\/a>. There will be three categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Could Be Your Grandma\u2019s Quilt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spin on traditional quilts including traditional blocks<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What You See<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Realistic imagery featuring pictorial and animal designs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What You Think You See<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Non-realistic images<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Details about the quilt contest will be available soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we prepare for a different kind of show with a different kind of quilt contest, we wanted to spend some more time remembering some truly amazing quilts \u2013 Best of Show winners 2017 \u2013 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remembering The Twisted Sister<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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In 2017, Margaret Solomon Gunn<\/a> of Gorham, Maine, won $10,000 for The Twisted Sister<\/em>. This quilt is the sister quilt (hence the name) to Margaret\u2019s 2015 quilt, Bouquet Royale<\/em>.\u00a0 The earlier design featured the elongated hexagons of Lucy Boston, set on silk Radiance.\u00a0 Margaret loved the process of hand piecing the fussy-cut pieces so much, she decided to do it again.\u00a0 The Twisted Sister<\/em> also has fussy-cut pieces, but they are regular hexagons.\u00a0 They are not English Paper Piecing, but rather a hand-pieced technique Maragret developed that is much better for custom quilting.\u00a0 The colors in the quilt are Margaret\u2019s \u201ccurrent fave\u201d \u2013 pinks, greens and orange.\u00a0 She also has a current addiction with silk, so Margaret revealed, \u201cyou can expect the backgrounds of my quilts to be silk Radiance for some time to come! It allows me to use bolder prints elsewhere because the quilting will always show beautifully on the silk.\u201d\u00a0 The Twisted Sister\u2019s<\/em> blocks feature a crazy zebra print (because Margaret says this sister is a whole lot more wilder!), and an asymmetrical twisting border.\u00a0\u00a0 There is also a twisting motif in the quilting of the outer border. It took Margaret about 16-17 months<\/strong> \u2014 from the time she started the blocks\u2013 to complete the quilt.\u00a0 There is about 180 hours<\/strong> in the quilting alone and about 120 hours<\/strong> in the binding.\u00a0 Margaret realizes that small points in judging \u201ccan be won and lost with finishing, so most of my quilts feature more unique edge treatments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 Best of Show: Fractal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Like Margaret Solomon Gunn, German quilting pioneer, Claudia Pfeil<\/a>, found new quilting creativity after she purchased her longarm machine in 2005. Remembering her purchase, Claudia said, that she found a way to \u201cexpress myself through fabric and thread that was exciting, addictive and fun.\u201d Claudia says that free-motion quilting gives her the freedom\u2013\u201clike an eagle flying over the mountains\u201d\u2013 to play with spaces and quilting designs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Claudia begins a project, she likes to work with a theme. Themes challenge her, get her out of her comfort zone, and start her thinking \u201cout of the box.\u201d Her theme for Fractal<\/em> was kaleidoscopes. Claudia searched Google for pictures of kaleidoscopes and endless links introduced her to fractals. She admits that before then, she really didn\u2019t know what fractals were.\u00a0 She became fascinated by their dynamic, vitality and vibrancy. Before falling asleep at night, she would collect dreams and visions of her theme and began thinking about how she could translate her visions into realistic designs. She began by preparing circles in different sizes out of white Dupioni silk on freezer paper templates. Next, she drew designs on to the circles, first with pencil, then if she was satisfied, she drew them with a black pen (Faber-Castell)\u00a0 filling in the details and painted them with acrylic colors (Stewart Gill) and Tsukineko ink pens. Playing and creating the layers is one of the main parts of the quilt. Claudia tried to enhance this impression with the choice and placement of quilting designs. Using 100 wt black silk thread, it took several backtracking stitches around the outlines of the circle designs to repeat and enhance the black drawing lines. The design was couched with different yarns (for example Razzle Dazzle and Yli ) around all outlines, respecting again the different layers to create a foreground and a background. Her final touch? 30,000 Swarovski Crystals<\/strong>!!! Besides learning about fractals, Claudia also learned by trial and error how to use mixed types of ink and paints and pens while making Fractal<\/em>. She commented, \u201cI learned that it is hard to get rid of pencil drawings on silk.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remembering past winners is a great way to be inspired for new quilting ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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