{"id":5802,"date":"2020-07-24T08:04:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T13:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=5802"},"modified":"2020-07-24T08:04:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T13:04:20","slug":"sample-making-auditioning-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=5802","title":{"rendered":"Sample Making – Auditioning Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The other day I found an interesting image called “Ruffles” from Peggy Ostercamp’s weaving<\/a> on Pinterest. It consists of a core some fibre covered by a sleeve of her diaphanous hand woven silk fabric which is much longer than the core, so as it hangs it settles into wrinkles. Intrigued, I pinned the image to capture the essence of what inspired me at that moment, and immediately made a sample of a core with wrinkled fabric around it. I used firm plastic for my core and covered it with a tube of plain cotton, then added a few little needleweaving things – because when I saw Peggy’s work it immdiately struck me that this could be a framework\/canvas for some kind of needleworked construction. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m busy oversewing fabric strips with gold onto a black background<\/a> which I hope to finish today, but now I have this little sample kicking around, I can think about some possibilities: <\/p>\n\n\n\n