{"id":2390,"date":"2013-09-15T20:26:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T01:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2013-09-15T20:26:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T01:26:51","slug":"the-glorious-straight-stitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2390","title":{"rendered":"The Glorious Straight Stitch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sunburnt<\/a><\/p>\n

Shown above is the title piece from my 1987 solo exhibition, ” Sunburnt Textures”,\u00a0<\/em> <\/span>and the detail is below.\u00a0 Long before I started making quilts in 1989 I was using my favourite stitch, straight stitch in various forms\u00a0in my fabric and thread art.\u00a0 Other favourites include stemmed French knots, and stemmed Y-stitch.<\/p>\n

\"Autosave-File<\/p>\n

Other examples are in the first gallery on my website, The Creative Stitch; pre-1988<\/a><\/p>\n

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Of course it is the running stitch that usually forms quilted textures but many other stitches can be used in lines or scattered\/single form to function as quilting<\/span><\/em>, although few contemporary quilt makers thoroughly explore these options.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I am currently doing some more explorations with the straight stitch:<\/p>\n

\"straight<\/a><\/p>\n

I did have hope that this construction of the silver mylar between a metallic fabric and sheer nylon would somehow\u00a0lie flatter with added stitchery –\u00a0sadly\u00a0it won’t, but that aside, there’s some exciting stuff stored in this little sample.\u00a0 If I layered it with backing and batting it probably would then be flat, but I don’t want to do that so will have to\u00a0 try something more, which might take a while to come to me.<\/p>\n

Unusually for me, right now\u00a0I have a piece in mind that already has a title, more or less, something like<\/em> “Mostly about Red”\u00a0 I am planning to use\u00a0more of that\u00a0shiny black\u00a0chintz as\u00a0the base,\u00a0 bond\u00a0mostly red shapes onto\u00a0it, and straight stitching over the shapes like this.\u00a0 I have some lovely florescent\/neon threads that will really sing\u00a0– like green which is of\u00a0course opposite red on the colour wheel:<\/p>\n

\"Sample<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"auditioning<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, \u00a0the red scraps and\u00a0several uncut pieces\u00a0 of red that\u00a0made it through the auditioning process for the ‘red’ work.<\/p>\n

From\u00a0every pieced\u00a0project, which I cut and sew freehand, ie template free,\u00a0I save the offcuts\u00a0 and segments of pieced fabrics in the large clear plastic bag you see on the chair behind the table.\u00a0 The way I work, using many small pieces, I can often find great small pieces in the bag\u00a0and use them – not because\u00a0I’m miserly, there’s only a small amount of Scots blood in my\u00a0veins – but\u00a0it just makes sense to check out what I have in small bits first before cutting into the larger pieces, and there’s the thrill of a treasure hunt going through that digging deep process.<\/p>\n

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Shown above is the title piece from my 1987 solo exhibition, ” Sunburnt Textures”,\u00a0 and the detail is below.\u00a0 Long before I started making quilts in 1989 I was using my favourite stitch, straight stitch in various forms\u00a0in my fabric and thread art.\u00a0 Other favourites include stemmed French knots, and stemmed Y-stitch. Other examples are […]<\/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":[180,170,209,208],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-battings-samples","tag-hand-stitch","tag-stemmed-french-knots","tag-straight-stitches"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-Cy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","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=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions\/2401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}