{"id":71227,"date":"2026-06-13T07:04:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T14:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=71227"},"modified":"2026-06-12T16:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:37:38","slug":"another-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/another-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the San Mateo County Fair on Thursday with <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/about\/artquiltmaker-glossary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SIL#4<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_71264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71264\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_120141_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71264\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_120141_wm-sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Winner 2026: Pandora Charisma\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_120141_wm-sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_120141_wm-sm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_120141_wm-sm.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winner 2026: Pandora Charisma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was shocked and amazed that the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/the-pandora-charisma-is-finished\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pandora Charisma<\/a> won at the County Fair. Lee Ann shared the news with me at Sew Day, so it wasn&#8217;t a surprise. I was, however, so excited to see the evidence in person. I am in wonder at the size of those ribbons!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_71274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71274\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_133636_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71274\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_133636_wm-sm-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"Old Town with Ribbon\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_133636_wm-sm-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_133636_wm-sm-768x747.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_133636_wm-sm.jpg 825w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old Town with Ribbon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was also pleased that one of my quilts, Old Town,&nbsp; won a second prize. While second place can seem like nothing special, this quilt was entered into a category where a lot of quilts are entered (quilted by someone else). After thinking about it, I was very pleased even with a second place in this category.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayareamodernquilting.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BAM<\/a> members in general did really well! I was thrilled to see so many BAM cards on prize winning exhibits.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/my-prize-winning-quilts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous winners<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the San Mateo County Fair on Thursday with SIL#4. I was shocked and amazed that the Pandora Charisma won at the County Fair. Lee Ann shared the news with me at Sew Day, so it wasn&#8217;t a surprise. I was, however, so excited to see the evidence in person. I am in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/another-winner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another Winner&#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":[558],"tags":[543,314,545,463,560],"class_list":["post-71227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-bonnie-hunter-mystery-quilt","tag-exhibits","tag-old-town-mystery-quilt","tag-san-mateo-county-fair","tag-sewfisticated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71227","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=71227"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71279,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71227\/revisions\/71279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}