{"id":10537,"date":"2026-07-10T15:50:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=10537"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:52:29","slug":"learning-by-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=10537","title":{"rendered":"Learning By Doing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Take it from a dyed-in-the-wool teacher: there’s nothing quite as effective for learning how to do something as working through it step by step, and possibly problem solving along the way. I often use this mantra, and according to this blog’s search function, I’ve used it at least 100 times here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My wall quilt “Spirogyra 3: In The Weeds”<\/em> was selected for the Interpretations26 exhibition at the Visions Museum Of Textile Art, VMOTA<\/a>,<\/a> <\/strong>and in addition to the usual updated headshot photo, resume and biography, our artist’s contract required<\/em> a 60 second (max) video of ourselves talking about our art, so you may view it here – <\/strong> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/E-l9WAsfezE<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n

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For the video of me talking about my inspirations, go to <\/em><\/strong>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/E-l9WAsfezE<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

To do this myself I consulted our tech savvy daughter who works with videos all the time, and she advised me on how to rig up a (very non-professional looking) structure to hold the phone camera in place. Behind me is the actual quilt, “Spirogyra 3<\/em>“, I’m sending, which was pinned to another already hanging on a wall in the living room, where the morning light’s great. On top of the dining table sat a small coffee table, and on top of that I parked a couple of thick books topped with an unopened box of wine and a coffee tin that, with a bit of duck tape, propped the phone up at MOL face level \ud83d\ude42 I’d practised out what to say in under the 60 seconds time limit – that’s not very long! After several takes I sent them to said daughter who removed the bloopers of clenched lips and teeth, eye rolling, one swear word and a brief nose-scratching incident – all of which I’m sure close friends and family will say are so typical! She compiled them into a little blooper collection which I’ll post when the good video has had time to go viral unimpeded \ud83d\ude42<\/strong> My last learning thing was how to take a single frame from the video and save it as a still shot, which was so easy that I’m encouraged to learn how to do more editing myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Take it from a dyed-in-the-wool teacher: there’s nothing quite as effective for learning how to do something as working through it step by step, and possibly problem solving along the way. I often use this mantra, and according to this blog’s search function, I’ve used it at least 100 times here. My wall quilt “Spirogyra […]<\/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_seo_schema_type":"","_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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10537","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-2JX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10537","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=10537"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10555,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10537\/revisions\/10555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}