{"id":4225,"date":"2017-12-28T13:31:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T18:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2017-12-28T13:31:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T18:31:16","slug":"desert-wind-with-toothpick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=4225","title":{"rendered":"Desert Wind, With Toothpick"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Left – Desert Wind<\/em>\u00a01995,\u00a0 200cm x 200cm.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Right – Toothpick, year unknown<\/h5>\n

A couple of days ago while showing some visitors a few of my quilts, I unfurled this one,\u00a0 Someone said ‘There’s a needle in it…’\u00a0 and we turned it over to find not a needle but a toothpick slightly protruding. It’s not of any kind I’ve ever bought, and I have no idea how it could have got there. The notion of someone stalking around an exhibition opening spearing a quilt with a used toothpick is quite bizarre.\u00a0\u00a0‘Desert Wind’<\/em>\u00a0(bound edges not visible) is approx 2m x 2m.\u00a0 It’s big enough for a bedcover – and in the right room in the right house it would be dramatic.\u00a0 I made it originally to use as an eye catching backdrop for my booth at a contemporary craft show in Australia.\u00a0 It doesn’t suit our style or anywhere we’re ever likely to live – but anyway it remains in my possession, and I exhibit it from time to time.\u00a0 In its exhibition history it’s been handled by quite a few people one way and another, and of course, it took many hours of machine piecing, machine quilting and hand quilting.<\/p>\n

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How strange this toothpick has only just come to light!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Left – Desert Wind\u00a01995,\u00a0 200cm x 200cm.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Right – Toothpick, year unknown A couple of days ago while showing some visitors a few of my quilts, I unfurled this one,\u00a0 Someone said ‘There’s a needle in it…’\u00a0 and we turned it over to find not a needle but a toothpick slightly protruding. It’s not […]<\/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":"Desert Wind, With Toothpick","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":[227,404,293,188,197,186],"class_list":["post-4225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-colour-memories","tag-desert-wind","tag-landscape","tag-modern","tag-sandlines","tag-wandering-strip-piecing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-169","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225","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=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4229,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions\/4229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}