{"id":1542,"date":"2012-06-18T08:23:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T13:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2012-06-18T08:40:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T13:40:59","slug":"the-question-of-embellishments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1542","title":{"rendered":"The Question of Embellishments"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my online quilting friends\u00a0recently asked\u00a0a question\u00a0of her colleagues: whether we’d found adding embellishment had ever actually improved a less successful quilt.\u00a0 IMHO it doesn’t; any real fixes are those that involve a bit of\u00a0adding\/deleting, unpicking and re-sewing perhaps – but anyway, things to be done before layering, quilting and finishing.\u00a0 That’s just my opinion though, and there are clearly people out there who’d strongly disagree.<\/p>\n

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Tidal Shallows 2, 1995, 30inches square. machine embroidered with triple needle metallic thread before assembly and quilting.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tidal Shallows 1, 1995, 36 inches, entirely beaded with tiny glass beads.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Although I have never gratuitously added glittery charms or doodads, tassels, \u00a0shells, teabags and the like, I have extensively embellished several quilts with machine embroidery, typically double or triple needle stitching, and\u00a0sometimes hand embroidery; but in one notable\u00a0exception I totally beaded\u00a0the one directly above, Tidal Shallows 1.\u00a0<\/em> Perhaps I was exhausted after totally beading\u00a0it, I don’t recall exactly, but I was working on them and another\u00a0at much the same time,\u00a0as they all\u00a0resulted from a coastal holiday to a wonderful part of NW Western Australia.\u00a0\u00a0I feel the quilt was already successfully ‘watery’, although\u00a0the\u00a0stronger design of the two, so perhaps that’s why I beaded only that one and didn’t\u00a0bother beading of further embellishing Tidal Shallows 2<\/em>.\u00a0 A viewer of the beaded Tidal Shallows 1<\/em> exclaimed “How watery that looks” and so I did feel my decision to go all out and totally bead the quilt\u00a0 was vindicated – but in no way was it an attempt to improve ‘a less than successful’ quilt.<\/p>\n

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One of my online quilting friends\u00a0recently asked\u00a0a question\u00a0of her colleagues: whether we’d found adding embellishment had ever actually improved a less successful quilt.\u00a0 IMHO it doesn’t; any real fixes are those that involve a bit of\u00a0adding\/deleting, unpicking and re-sewing perhaps – but anyway, things to be done before layering, quilting and finishing.\u00a0 That’s just my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542","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-oS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","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=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}