{"id":23721,"date":"2014-06-15T05:47:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T12:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=23721"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:52:50","slug":"we-have-a-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/we-have-a-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"We Have a Winner!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23735\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT4962sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23735\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT4962sm-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"Fresh Fruit: San Mateo County Fair 2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT4962sm-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT4962sm.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresh Fruit: San Mateo County Fair 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I visited the county fair last week to see the quilts and eat a frozen chocolate covered banana. Why else would I go? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I was pleased to see I had another winner!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fresh Fruit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts-2014\/fresh-fruit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fresh Fruit<\/a> got an Honorable Mention. Nothing like the bonanza <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/san-mateo-county-fair-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last year<\/a>, but respectable nonetheless. It is certainly nice to win.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Finished: Whole Cloth Quilt!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/finished-whole-cloth-quilt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whole Cloth Quilt<\/a> got nothing. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>I am happy that Fresh Fruit is a winner, but also irritated. As I told you, it is a pattern e.g. not an original design, like the Whole Cloth Quilt. I used the same fabric as the designer used int he magazine picture. There was very little that was original in that quilt, unlike the <a title=\"Whole Cloth Quilt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts-2012\/whole-cloth-quilt\/\">Whole Cloth Quilt<\/a>, which was completely original.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23734\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23734\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT4963sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23734\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT4963sm-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"Silly Boys: Fresh Fruit: San Mateo County Fair 2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT4963sm-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT4963sm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT4963sm.jpg 976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silly Boys: Fresh Fruit: San Mateo County Fair 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As they did last year, I had the boys make a fuss over my quilt, mostly because they are so hilarious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I visited the county fair last week to see the quilts and eat a frozen chocolate covered banana. Why else would I go? \ud83d\ude09 I was pleased to see I had another winner! Fresh Fruit got an Honorable Mention. Nothing like the bonanza last year, but respectable nonetheless. It is certainly nice to win. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/we-have-a-winner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We Have a Winner!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[381],"tags":[314,335,463],"class_list":["post-23721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-381","tag-exhibits","tag-quilt-show","tag-san-mateo-county-fair"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69518,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23721\/revisions\/69518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}