{"id":3545,"date":"2016-02-05T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=3545"},"modified":"2016-02-05T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T17:00:14","slug":"a-sample-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=3545","title":{"rendered":"A Sample a Day…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pinterest is marvellous to explore for ideas, rather a digital artist’s morgue. \u00a0I browse there at length every now and then, it can be very addictive, and while pinning I also sometimes add to a list of things\/techniques I’ve seen others do in their work, and making a quick sample\u00a0of something on that list is a\u00a0way to have it register with me – to show whether it is worth the trouble, if I have the necessary skills and materials to do it, and is a first step in exploring its potential to fit into my own work sometime. \u00a0A sample is a shorthand way of saying a great deal.<\/p>\n

I often finish up a morning or afternoon in my work room by making a quick sample or two, and here are a couple from this week:<\/p>\n

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A scrap of nylon organza with random tucks\u00a0machine sewn. \u00a0I saw something along these lines hand stitched in a strongly contrasting thread, but I think machine sewn could make an interesting surface, perhaps for a collage, but possibly for a sheer ‘quilt’ … just wandering here. \u00a0The fact that the thread in the machine happened to be silver is purely circumstantial, but interesting.<\/p>\n

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

Here segments of various ribbons or tapes and some waxed nylon cord are very exciting, I think. \u00a0The idea could be exploited as the main surface design, or \u00a0could be in the role of embellishment of something beneath. \u00a0Again that silver thread … means absolutely nothing except circumstance. \u00a0I did say these are quick samples, \u00a0‘notes’ if you like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pinterest is marvellous to explore for ideas, rather a digital artist’s morgue. \u00a0I browse there at length every now and then, it can be very addictive, and while pinning I also sometimes add to a list of things\/techniques I’ve seen others do in their work, and making a quick sample\u00a0of something on that list is […]<\/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-3545","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-Vb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545","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=3545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3549,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}