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Through the years, Road’s Quilt Contest has grown to be one of the premier quilt contests \u2013 both in the United States and internationally. The number of quilt contest categories offered, quilts submitted, and cash prizes given away, has grown substantially through the years. At the 25th<\/sup> Anniversary Show in January, 2020, Road received more than 500 entries. And at that show, Road gave away $92,000 in prize money. The Best of Show quilt alone received $10,000 \u2013 twice as much as the total amount given in 1996!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n The prize money for Road\u2019s Quilt Contest largely comes from the vendors who sponsor Road to California\u2019s quilt show. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of Road\u2019s traditional vendors \u2013 especially the smaller sponsors \u2013 have suffered financially as they have not been able to participate in any quilt show activities since March 2020. Due to these hardships, Road did not want to burden our sponsors with paying the prize money and therefore formally cancelled the traditional quilt contest last Spring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since that time, Road to California has been aware that many quilters were still desirous to showcase their talents. So, Road decided to change up the quilt contest format and offer a new and different type of quilt show \u2013 fitting for Road@Home\u2019s online format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Categories for the Road@Home 2021 Quilt Contest have been streamlined into 3 general categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Could Be Your Grandma\u2019s Quilt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Quilts in this category should be based on traditional blocks. Interpretation and improvisation of traditional blocks are welcomed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What You See<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Quilts in this category should be based on realistic imagery. Pictoral, People, and Naturescape quilts are appropriate for this category. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What You Think You See<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Quilts in this category include abstracts or interpretations. They should inspire the viewer to think about or guess what the subject is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are no date restrictions for the 2021 contest.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The entry deadline is November 23, 2020<\/strong>. Accepted entries will be notified no later than December 15, 2020. All official entries will be judged online<\/strong>. Recordings of the judging process along with live commentary will be included in Road@Home\u2019s Behind the Scenes<\/em><\/strong> event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another feature of Road@Home\u2019s 2021 Quilt Contest is that all entrants are still eligible<\/strong> to enter their quilt in the 2022 Road to California Quilt Contest so long as the entry falls under the rules for the 2022 contest. For the complete 2021 Quilt Contest Rules, please visit our website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Road to California invites all quilters to go through their quilts, finish up any quilts they might be currently working on, and enter them into Road’s Quilt Contest before November 23, 2020. We can\u2019t wait to see what will be submitted!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Road@Home is unlike any previous Road to California Quilters Conference and Showcase. So, of course, Road’s Quilt Contest for 2021 is also going to be unlike any other that Road has sponsored in the past 25 years. Road’s Quilt Contest Past The first time Road’s quilt contest was held was in 1996, when Road […]<\/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-8035","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\/8035","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=8035"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8041,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035\/revisions\/8041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A New Twist for 2021<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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by Terry Sargent Peart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"Road](\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Outstanding-Artistry.jpg\")
by LeAnn Hileman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/first-place-abstract.jpg\")
by Beth Nufer<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n