{"id":254,"date":"2007-01-27T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alison.gloderworks.net\/weblog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2007-01-27T07:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-27T12:19:00","slug":"craftmanship-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Craftmanship issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp3.blogger.com\/_ZszsUJzUXUE\/RcNPnODuL8I\/AAAAAAAAAB4\/9EhA4pJ37_I\/s1600-h\/Schwabe5.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5026949144282804162\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/Schwabe5.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A recent morning on the quiltart list there was discussion of techniques. The previous writer had issues with fusing of uneven cutting and fraying edges, and I posed the question whether readers could conceive a design in which frayed edges and uneven cut lines, with fusing technique, were appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Well some of the answers were interesting, but I then realised I had done such a design myself, not too long ago, in which the pieces were either fused (the hand dyed squares in this piece) and or frayed &#8211; the gold scrim squares are hand sewn onto the top of the larger squares, and despite beng cut on the cross this stuff does fray easily &#8211; witness the fraying doubled over edging that surrounds the quilt.<\/p>\n<p>This small quilt uses a traditional pattern of a square within a square to explore particular techniques, but overall the design isn&#8217;t too crash hot in terms of vitality and excitement, and this is probably why I haven&#8217;t exhibited it anywhere yet. And yet it is one of those pieces that somehow become important on the way towards new developments. <\/p>\n<p>An earlier version of this post had this and a detailed view but the buttons would not open to show the pics, although they had done so when first posted. This is the best I can do for the moment, however, and maybe I will learn something blindingly obvious to everyone but me on this new blogger program, or need to take another path after a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent morning on the quiltart list there was discussion of techniques. The previous writer had issues with fusing of uneven cutting and fraying edges, and I posed the question whether readers could conceive a design in which frayed edges and uneven cut lines, with fusing technique, were appropriate. 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