{"id":1787,"date":"2012-10-19T15:22:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T20:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2012-11-17T13:35:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T18:35:18","slug":"black-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1787","title":{"rendered":"Black Wins … Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an earlier post,\u00a0it was clear\u00a0the black chitz won over\u00a0over the gold\/cream.\u00a0 Gold\/cream looked’OK’, but I didn’t persevere with much of the gold stitchery on that, as this\u00a0black and gold was already so much more exciting:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I have since done three more pieces like this with sand ripple patterns forming the designs, all very different.\u00a0 The 4 pieces will form a group, and as usual at this stage, I am\u00a0tossing up\u00a0a title for them, and currently considering ‘Golden Sands’, ‘Sandlines’, and of course there are already groups of ‘Tidelines’ and ‘Beachlines’<\/span><\/p>\n

I just knew this black chintz was a good buy –\u00a0there’s\u00a0still about 13.5 m left …..<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

November 17th<\/span><\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Several weeks have passed, and although it has taken me a while to think what and how much quilting to do, it came to me a few days ago:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I know such intense free machine quilting, stippling,\u00a0is a bit of a cliche<\/span> <\/em>these days – but it really is necessary.\u00a0 The last time I did this stuff was Hannan’s Reward, 1993,<\/span><\/p>\n

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and one or two others around that time.\u00a0\u00a0‘Hannan’s Reward’ has\u00a0more distinct circles, and the thread was metallic, but earthy, grainy textures were required in each case.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So the above black\/gold sample\u00a0is the same quilt as\u00a0pictured\u00a0at the top of this post,\u00a0at the stage of free machine stitch over the freshly painted fabric (oh well of course, it had dried …)\u00a0 The other three\u00a0are now all sprayed, free-machine stitched and layered for quilting, and I’ve been\u00a0chewing through the black thread like mad.\u00a0 Although it has taken me a long time to get this right, \u00a0I\u00a0 now feel confident it\u00a0meets the vision I had when I put my proposal in months and months ago. <\/span><\/p>\n

But, while doing the quilting over the past couple of days on this one, another problem arose to be solved:<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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I used unbleached muslin\/calico for the backs as I normally do.\u00a0 But with this intense black machine quilting (and no other bobbin colour would have worked well) the resulting finish looks pretty gross.\u00a0These 4 pieces really\u00a0will require additional backs to cover that.\u00a0 However, it’s an ill wind that blows no good<\/span><\/em>, for I now have the opportunity to trapunto (stuff) the unquilted areas, corresponding to the gold shapes on the front\u00a0representing the tops of the sand ripples.\u00a0 A little more body in\u00a0those parts\u00a0will help prevent them\u00a0becoming crushed and wrinkled in transit and storage before the exhibition.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have not yet decided whether to finish each 40cm x 60cm piece with a fine black binding or with turned back facings.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an earlier post,\u00a0it was clear\u00a0the black chitz won over\u00a0over the gold\/cream.\u00a0 Gold\/cream looked’OK’, but I didn’t persevere with much of the gold stitchery on that, as this\u00a0black and gold was already so much more exciting: I have since done three more pieces like this with sand ripple patterns forming the designs, all very different.\u00a0 […]<\/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-1787","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-sP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","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=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}