{"id":46168,"date":"2019-05-27T06:59:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T13:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=46168"},"modified":"2019-05-27T09:10:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T16:10:29","slug":"fair-entries-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/fair-entries-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Entries 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/2018-fair-entries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last year<\/a> I let you know what projects I entered into the fair. I saw the post by accident and can&#8217;t really believe another year has gone by. I didn&#8217;t wait until the last minute this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cyndiquilts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cyndi<\/a> was kind enough to collect a bunch of entries at the BAM meeting to take to the fair. I gave her mine since it is much easier to have someone else drop them off. I think I&#8217;ll have to give her a gift or take her to lunch, because she really does save me a lot of time and energy.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t enter as much this year as I only wanted the free tickets. I know it is pretty callous, but it is true. There are so many quilts in the pieced-by-one, quilted-by-another category that I have no hope ever of winning for a quilt. I can usually win in the paper category, but didn&#8217;t finish the piece that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/paper-wreaths-with-friends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I started with Nancy and Maureen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SIL2 figured out that the embellishment category was the least populated so we had the best chance of winning, thus I had incentive to finish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/under-the-sea-pillow-finished\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Under the Sea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-46168 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/under-the-sea-pillow-finished\/wp-1553552432718362594724555674357-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-1553552432718362594724555674357-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Under the Sea Pillow Finished- front\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-45526\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-45526'>\n\t\t\t\tUnder the Sea Pillow Finished- front\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/under-the-sea-pillow-finished\/wp-15535528637694756205277684378798-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15535528637694756205277684378798-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Under the Sea Pillow Finished- back\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-45529\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-45529'>\n\t\t\t\tUnder the Sea Pillow Finished- back\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Under the Sea was entered.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45448\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45448\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20190317_204630_wm9185364434252137722.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20190317_204630_wm9185364434252137722-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"Metroscape - finished\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20190317_204630_wm9185364434252137722-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20190317_204630_wm9185364434252137722-768x979.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20190317_204630_wm9185364434252137722-803x1024.jpg 803w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20190317_204630_wm9185364434252137722-1200x1530.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 85vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Metroscape &#8211; finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since Metroscape is pretty unusual, in that I haven&#8217;t seen a lot of finished quilts using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00D02J9P2\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=artquiltmaker-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B00D02J9P2&amp;linkId=62b8c9778bd59cced6d7d3efad42590f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quick Curve Ruler<\/a>, I thought I might have a tiny chance, despite it being in that overcrowded category.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-46168 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/finished-aqua-red-sampler\/wp-15528828398947451241887461304640-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15528828398947451241887461304640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Aqua-Red Sampler finished\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-45438\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-45438'>\n\t\t\t\tAqua-Red Sampler finished\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/finished-aqua-red-sampler\/wp-15528827080863892483298232223304-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15528827080863892483298232223304-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Aqua-Red Sampler back - finished\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-45437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15528827080863892483298232223304-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15528827080863892483298232223304-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15528827080863892483298232223304-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15528827080863892483298232223304-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15528827080863892483298232223304-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-45437'>\n\t\t\t\tAqua-Red Sampler back &#8211; finished\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I really ended up liking the Aqua-Red Sampler. It is a striking quilt. Though I have no hope of winning anything with it, I wanted someone to see it and entered it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I let you know what projects I entered into the fair. I saw the post by accident and can&#8217;t really believe another year has gone by. I didn&#8217;t wait until the last minute this year. Cyndi was kind enough to collect a bunch of entries at the BAM meeting to take to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/fair-entries-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fair Entries 2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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":[477],"tags":[314,463],"class_list":["post-46168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-exhibits","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\/46168","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}