{"id":513,"date":"2009-06-20T20:13:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T01:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2009-06-20T20:13:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T01:13:01","slug":"procrastinating-a-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"Procrastinating a little …."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SAQA\u00a0\u00a0 I do want to share with you the 12 ” square I recently made for the SAQA squares online\u00a0reverse auction later this year, details of\u00a0 which\u00a0will be found on www.saqa.com<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

The funds raised are used\u00a0to help fund the\u00a0wide array 0f\u00a0services this lively organisation provides to its membership around the world: there’s a huge variety of informational, promotional and exhibition activities and opportunities, many on-line, all of which raise public awareness of the art\u00a0form and inform collectors and critics alike.<\/p>\n

And the second reason I like to do one of these is that\u00a0it always gives me a bit of a push, a nudge to try something new or newish, solve a technical problem perhaps,\u00a0\u00a0in a small format – not exactly like a ‘sample’\u00a0 since each square is a finished resolved work, but on a much smaller scale than I usually work.\u00a0 It encourages me to\u00a0tackle something\u00a0 technically problematic prehaps.\u00a0 Not that I don’t do that kind of thing on a larger piece if needs arise – I do tend to slide home dust flying when a deadline looms, flying by the seat of my pants so to speak.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you have been paying attention to my latest work, this one is like several recent works\u00a0 (“Tracks ” series) in which I have taken perfectly good nylon organza and after construction atttacked it with a burning tool – for example my Quilt National’09 piece, “Timetracks 7”\u00a0\u00a0blogged 22nd may.\u00a0\u00a0The base of this square however is leather rather than fabric – and in this case I particularly wanted to solve the hanging sleeve thing.\u00a0\u00a0 Machine sewing with leather is all very well, but sew it wrong and you leave a line of holes,\u00a0 and in something like this, anyway, did I want a life of machine stitching across the leather but under the organza, but maybe visible, anyway?\u00a0 I did\u00a0work out one\u00a0way, and have since thought of a totally different but better way to do it, and will do so on a larger work, probably not for the show I have opening this tuesday though ……which brings me to the procrastination – my latest work, in the Ebb&Flow series is currently being quilted –\u00a0 I’ve had some dinner and watched a movie with DH and so I will go on upstairs right now to do another spell of quilting – at this stage it’s still do-able for hanging monday afternoon ….day after tomorrow !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0 I do want to share with you the 12 ” square I recently made for the SAQA squares online\u00a0reverse auction later this year, details of\u00a0 which\u00a0will be found on www.saqa.com\u00a0. The funds raised are used\u00a0to help fund the\u00a0wide array 0f\u00a0services this lively organisation provides to its membership around the world: there’s a huge variety […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","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-8h","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","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=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}