{"id":119,"date":"2005-11-17T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alison.gloderworks.net\/weblog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2005-11-17T07:53:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T12:53:00","slug":"auditioning-the-quilting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Auditioning the quilting&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4201\/926\/640\/DSC00039.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4201\/926\/320\/DSC00039.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Quite often I do several different bits of quilting at the beginning of quilting stage, since I find that often what I have had in mind during the lengthy construction stage just isn&#8217;t &#8220;it&#8221; when I actually put it into effect.<\/p>\n<p>This is such a quilt. As pledged, I did make a start on the quilting on tuesday, but let it sit in this state yesterday while I darted out to book group and the following book selection meeting.<br \/>I have just re-read Michener&#8217;s <strong><em>Chesapeake<\/em><\/strong>, first read maybe 25 years ago in a Michener phase, but I have been intrigued with how much I had forgotten of it, and how much it seemed almost a different book &#8211; surprising too, since one family of offsprings have lived on the Eastern Shore for the last 7 or 8 years, and we are regular visitors to the area. A fabulous part of the US, and I just love it.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress. Since I am using #8 and #12 perle, and have several gradations of those sandy neutral shades and some black, I &#8216;ve decided to vary the quilting colour for each block but use the same kind of reasonably large stitch treatment, as above, all over. The bit done in the fine (ie &#8216;normal&#8217; quilting thread) is just too delicate for the subject matter of this quilt, which is developing an almost masculine, certainly rugged character; and today I will pull that fine stuff out. <a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/\" target=\"ext\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial\" alt=\"Posted by Picasa\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbp.gif\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite often I do several different bits of quilting at the beginning of quilting stage, since I find that often what I have had in mind during the lengthy construction stage just isn&#8217;t &#8220;it&#8221; when I actually put it into effect. This is such a quilt. 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