{"id":278,"date":"2007-03-11T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alison.gloderworks.net\/weblog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2007-03-11T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T22:40:00","slug":"anatomy-of-a-commission-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a Commission &#8211; Day 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp2.blogger.com\/_ZszsUJzUXUE\/RfSFVrc-zLI\/AAAAAAAAAEo\/nP4qD9TNpO8\/s1600-h\/DSC00018.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_\" style=\"CLEAR: both; FLOAT: right\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/DSC00018.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today and yesterday I really pushed to get the last piecing done, with <span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"><em>a self imposed deadline<\/em><\/span> of this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The final size is to be  approx 2ft x 3 ft, so this is  about 3&#8217;4&#8243; x 2&#8217;6&#8243;, as it will ddraw up in the quilting<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few days I will be communicating with the client, who can if she wishes at this stage propose any minor change; and then <em><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">w<\/span><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">i<\/span><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">thin the next few days then it will be layered and basted<\/span><\/em>. While those processes going on, and while I do things like have some overdue (about 30 years overdue!) beauty treatments, a medical appointment and lunch with the girls, I<span style=\"color:#ff6666;\"><em> will be mulling over the thread to use in the machine quilting<\/em><\/span> I plan to do, metallic gold? metallic bronze? neon pink or orange? a change of neons from top to bottom? a change of metallics from top to bottom?&#8230; or something else I haven&#8217;t thought about yet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And <span style=\"color:#cc6600;\"><em>then there&#8217;s the matter of to bind or face,<\/em><\/span> but during the fabric and scrap auditioning phase, I found a couple of great binding potential bits, both long enough although from other projects: so, a firm believer in the ability of the mind to quietly work on this over time, I will get them out and pin up beside the quilt to look at as I decide the other things.<\/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>Today and yesterday I really pushed to get the last piecing done, with a self imposed deadline of this afternoon. 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