{"id":3221,"date":"2015-07-28T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2015-07-25T09:43:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T14:43:32","slug":"take-a-basic-shape-repeat-repeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=3221","title":{"rendered":"Take a Basic Shape, Repeat, Repeat &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered a very exciting french textile artist, designer, ceramicist &#8211; so talented in diverse media. \u00a0Her name is <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><a style=\"color: #ff00ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ceciledachary.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cecile Cachary<\/a><\/span>. \u00a0At this page on her website\u00a0http:\/\/www.ceciledachary.com\/ronds.html are wonderful examples of repeated round-ish shapes, &#8216;ronds&#8217; , executed in various \u00a0textile techniques, each collection forming an art work in itself. \u00a0Quilt \u00a0makers know and understand the value of what I term repeat units, or &#8216;blocks&#8217; to traditional quilt makers. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t ever based a design on rounds per se, but repeated roundish shapes &#8211; yes. \u00a0Use of them can bring rhythm and movement to a work, \u00a0Take this oneas an example,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=2315\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2315\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2315\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=2315\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DesertTracks-5.jpg?fit=450%2C686&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"450,686\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DesertTracks 5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DesertTracks-5.jpg?fit=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DesertTracks-5.jpg?fit=450%2C686&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2315\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DesertTracks-5.jpg?resize=450%2C686&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"DesertTracks 5\" width=\"450\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DesertTracks-5.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DesertTracks-5.jpg?resize=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Desert Tracks, 61&#8243; x 41&#8243; \u00a02007<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered a very exciting french textile artist, designer, ceramicist &#8211; so talented in diverse media. \u00a0Her name is Cecile Cachary. \u00a0At this page on her website\u00a0http:\/\/www.ceciledachary.com\/ronds.html are wonderful examples of repeated round-ish shapes, &#8216;ronds&#8217; , executed in various \u00a0textile techniques, each collection forming an art work in itself. \u00a0Quilt \u00a0makers know and understand the [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3221","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-PX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","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=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3222,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions\/3222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}