{"id":3585,"date":"2016-03-19T11:45:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T16:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=3585"},"modified":"2016-03-19T11:45:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T16:45:35","slug":"using-leftovers-scraps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=3585","title":{"rendered":"Using Leftovers, Scraps"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, my photographer here in Montevideo, Eduardo Baldizan<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 took pics of a number of my tetrahedron shapes. \u00a0This one is called “Rainbow”, and like all in this series so far, is 18cm x 18cm x 18cm x 15cm. \u00a0 The dimensions result from the size of the quilter’s equilateral triangle I used to cut the shapes out of template plastic, it being a workable size for what I was planning. \u00a0The previous couple of previous posts give some insight into my construction process.<\/p>\n

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

Of course, cutting plastic shapes leaves scraps, some of them odd shaped, as in these ones from stencil making. \u00a0I don’t throw such things out in a place where I’d be lucky to find any of this particular material in a shop here. \u00a0Only yesterday was thinking that all these pieces are surely useful for something.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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

It’s marvellous how the brain keeps turning things over while you’re asleep. \u00a0This morning around 4am I was woken by a bunch of party goers out in the street, who eventually got in a car and drove away. \u00a0 Bless them – it took ages to get back to sleep; but in that time I had several brain waves, beginning with how useful these could be in making elements for use in the little collage pieces I have been doing\u00a0\"small<\/a>\"small<\/a><\/p>\n

and presenting on little 20cm x 20cm canvas stretchers. \u00a0\u00a0For example, they could provide a base over which threads could be wrapped to provide a warp for needlewoven elements as in this 1987 creation “Behind The Scenes 2”, which back then were mounted over cardboard.<\/p>\n

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

And further, elements could be placed with a spacer behind so it appears to float a little above the rest of the collage. \u00a0I was so excited this kept me awake for at least another hour.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, my photographer here in Montevideo, Eduardo Baldizan\u00a0 took pics of a number of my tetrahedron shapes. \u00a0This one is called “Rainbow”, and like all in this series so far, is 18cm x 18cm x 18cm x 15cm. \u00a0 The dimensions result from the size of the quilter’s equilateral triangle I used to cut […]<\/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-3585","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-VP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585","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=3585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3594,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions\/3594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}