{"id":273,"date":"2007-03-11T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alison.gloderworks.net\/weblog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2007-03-11T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T22:06:00","slug":"anatomy-of-a-commission-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a Commission &#8211; Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp0.blogger.com\/_ZszsUJzUXUE\/RfR9aLc-zGI\/AAAAAAAAAEA\/L7k_GREqdRE\/s1600-h\/DSC00008.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_\" style=\"CLEAR: both; FLOAT: right\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp0.blogger.com\/_ZszsUJzUXUE\/RfR9aLc-zGI\/AAAAAAAAAEA\/L7k_GREqdRE\/s320\/DSC00008.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I always have a bit of the <em><span style=\"color:#cc33cc;\">blank page<\/span><span style=\"color:#cc33cc;\"> syndrome<\/span><\/em> writers face, but on day 1 I actually managed to get started &#8211; just &#8220;cut and go&#8221; is the thing to do &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t look much but represents a lot of progress for the first day, and I stopped here. Took a photo and went off to do something completely different &#8211; but once this kind of thing gets under way, the brain takes over in between times of working on it.<\/p>\n<p>The top portion survives in the final piece; there is part of the lower bit in the final piece but now that I was getting the hang of this again, overnight I decided to modify the lower bit before attaching it to the upper. (it&#8217;s been a while since I worked on a piece this way, and is totally different way of thinking to doing the leather on fabric pieces.) <\/p>\n<div style=\"CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/blogger\/\" 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><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always have a bit of the blank page syndrome writers face, but on day 1 I actually managed to get started &#8211; just &#8220;cut and go&#8221; is the thing to do &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t look much but represents a lot of progress for the first day, and I stopped here. Took a photo and [&hellip;]<\/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":[5,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craftsmanship","category-freehand-cutting-and-piecing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-4p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","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=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}