{"id":8292,"date":"2021-04-02T19:03:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T02:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.road2ca.com\/blog\/?p=8292"},"modified":"2021-04-02T19:03:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T02:03:45","slug":"roadhome-double-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/02\/roadhome-double-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Road@Home Double Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LeAnn Hileman<\/a> was a double winner, earning two awards in the category, \u201cWhat You See, during the online show, Road@Home<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ohio Barn in Early Morning Light \u2013 Second Place<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Navajo Boy With Truck \u2013 Honorable Mention<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet LeeAnn Hileman<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

LeAnn has been sewing since she was a young girl. She made her first quilt when she was in high school and although she has never been without a sewing machine, she didn’t quilt again until she was pregnant with her son and she made a baby quilt.  She has been making art quilts since 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After the cancellation of shows during 2020, LeAnn had \u201cthree major quilts just simmering and waiting to burst into view.\u201d She shared that she had \u201calways loved Road to California shows\u201d so what better place to show two of her quilts!! LeAnn entered both quilts into the category,  \u201cWhat You See\u201d because \u201cboth are representation or realistic. My brain won’t work in the more abstract categories.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ohio Barn in Early Morning Light<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The first of LeAnn\u2019s double winning quilts, Ohio Barn in Early Morning Light, <\/em>won Second Place. It took 9 months to make- longer than LeAnn expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The quilt was inspired from when LeAnn happened upon this scene in Ohio one early morning and she \u201cwas struck by the sharp contrasts of light and shadow.  This kind of lighting doesn’t last long so I returned the next morning slightly earlier and spent time photographing the scene.  The challenge of depicting that light\/shadow kept me interested and motivated while I did this quilt.\u201d LeAnn was particularly satisfied when one of the judges commented \u201cthat she \u2018got\u2019 my depiction of the early morning light.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The techniques LeAnn used in Ohio Barn in Early Morning Light <\/em>included turned edge and raw edge applique, painting (sky), thread painting, Fabrico marker, and free motion quilting She says her \u201cson has dibs on it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navajo Boy With A Truck<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This Honorable Mention award made LeAnn a double winner. LeAnn says her inspiration for this quilt \u201cwas a vintage 8 x 10 sepia photograph I plucked from a pile in an antiques store in Flagstaff, Arizona.\u201d It took 8 months for her to finish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Again, LeAnn used the technique of turned edge and raw edge applique in making this quilt. She also used organza overlay, free motion and echo quilting, and raw edge collage. Her dream would be that \u201csomeday a relative of his will turn up and it would be a gift to that person.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Road@Home Experience<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Double Winner LeAnn Hileman commented that \u201cit wasn’t all that long ago that I saw beautiful art quilts at the Road shows and thought I’d never be able to do something that beautiful!  Sometimes you just have to spread your wings and jump off the cliff and that’s what art quilts were for me, no turning back, just lots of open air and possibilities!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While LeAnn didn\u2019t participate in any of the Road@Home events, she did have fun keeping up with all that was going on by reading all the posts. She enjoyed seeing all the quilts submitted and felt that \u201cthere were some wonderful and really skillful quilts.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s up next for LeAnn in 2021? Developing and finishing a project she is working on. She says the challenge is \u201chow to depict neon lights in twilight using fabric as a medium.  It has been said that difficulty is the atmosphere surrounding a miracle or a miracle in its beginning stages, so maybe this will be my miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about Road@Home Double Winner, LeAnn Hileman, please visit her website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LeAnn Hileman was a double winner, earning two awards in the category, \u201cWhat You See, during the online show, Road@Home Ohio Barn in Early Morning Light \u2013 Second Place Navajo Boy With Truck \u2013 Honorable Mention Meet LeeAnn Hileman LeAnn has been sewing since she was a young girl. She made her first quilt when […]<\/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-8292","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\/8292","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=8292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8298,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292\/revisions\/8298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}