"Longing for the Past" by Nancy Prince won 1st Place in the Traditional Wall quilts category at Road to California 2005.

Artist Statement: "Thread is the tie that binds this quilt together. Approximately 12,000 yards of thread, over 100 thread colors and close to 3 million stitches are intertwined throughout the thread painted designs. No embroidery cards were used. Hand painted fabric was used for the background and painted quilt bias binding created each individual board of siding on the house and church. Longing for the Past is a step back into a seemingly simpler moment in time."

Nancy shares a great story about standing near it at a show and overhearing a man who, after reading that the quilt took over 600 hours, said to his wife, "That woman's got way too much time on her hands."

(Photo from Nancy Prince)