{"id":957,"date":"2013-06-30T08:30:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T15:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=957"},"modified":"2013-06-30T08:30:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T15:30:32","slug":"so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-thoughts-from-our-2013-masterpiece-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/30\/so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-thoughts-from-our-2013-masterpiece-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"So You Want To Make A Winning Quilt? Thoughts From Our 2013 Masterpiece Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;\">Denise Havlan of Plainfield, Illinois, was awarded $3,000 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sewbatik.com\/\">Sew Batik <\/a>for her winning entry, The Peaceful Ones. This quilt took 2 years to create as Denise balanced her quilting time with her family and grandchildren time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">How did Denise get started in quilting? Back in 1989, she unknowingly entered a quilt shop and was interested in what she saw. However, she \u201chad no knowledge of sewing, let alone quilting. I took some classes and fell in love and the rest, as they say, is history.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Peaceful Ones was inspired by her favorite subject as a painter: Native Americans. When Denise started quilting, she wanted to render their images in fabric. Her work process was a journey that involved stretching her imagination, extending her physical capabilities, and making creative decisions that affected the outcome of her work.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/so-you-want-to-make-a-winning-quilt-thoughts-from-our-2013-masterpiece-winner\/attachment\/10731\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-958\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-958\" alt=\"10731\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10731-993x1024.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"614\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">What was Denise\u2019s reaction when she won the Masterpiece prize? \u201cIt was the ultimate satisfaction when others recognized (my) creative efforts.\u201d Denise feels that if one puts so much effort into a quilt, it needs to be recognized. She says it is thrilling to have other\u2019s see her work in a quilt show and to come home with a ribbon is great.\u00a0 When asked if she did anything special with her prize money, Denise replied, \u201cThe prize money is always spent before I get it\u2026the ribbon is my award that lives on!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">There is no stopping Denise with her quilting endeavors. It is \u201cforward in to the future\u201d for her.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/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":[18,22,26,32],"tags":[814,1007,1172,1389],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quilt-entries","category-blog","category-road-2013","category-road-to-california","tag-native-americans","tag-quilt-show","tag-sew-batik","tag-winning-quilt"],"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\/957","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=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}