{"id":10031,"date":"2025-11-03T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=10031"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:02:00","slug":"puff-container-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=10031","title":{"rendered":"Puff ‘Container’ Experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Which brings me to my recent puffs craze<\/em><\/strong>. While finishing off the backs of the latest orange, red and pink puffs, I\u2019m continuing exploratory sample making, as shown in several previous posts:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Reds and oranges include some glittery organza type fabrics in pink and orange<\/em><\/strong>, with the wonderful shiny polyester fabric that is like an oil slick.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Preparing to stitch a back on to a metallic organza puff to cover the gathered edges\u2026 tiny stitches, toning colour.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I like this idea, but it was very fiddly, and the result was disappointing.<\/em><\/strong> Glue has a dulling effect on the fabric\u2019s finish, so that\u2019s out\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I turned under the edge of this fabulous oil slick fabric as I ran the gathering thread around the edge of the circle, but really, the underwhelming result was not worth the fiddly effort. The \u2018cup\u2019 didn\u2019t show any of the fabric\u2019s glorious shine, and might just as well have been done with undyed calico!<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I have several metres of waxed polyester thread\/cords in appropriate toning colours that I\u2019d like to loop about and have hanging down, but wandering stings of glass beads are a thing I like at the moment, too, as they add to the\u00a0organic look<\/em>. Yesterday I found some vibrant pink rattail cord and some waxed polyester ones (dull almost burnt orange, hot pink and a rich red) so I\u2019ll be adding something else 3D to this piece \u2013 strings of beads, wisps of organza or looped and hanging threads, and maybe all three\u2026 and just as I\u2019ve done for the others, I\u2019ll finish it with hanging loops on the back or mount it on an artist canvas, giving the choice to display it horizontally or vertically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Which brings me to my recent puffs craze. While finishing off the backs of the latest orange, red and pink puffs, I\u2019m continuing exploratory sample making, as shown in several previous posts: I have several metres of waxed polyester thread\/cords in appropriate toning colours that I\u2019d like to loop about and have hanging down, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-2BN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10049,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions\/10049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}