{"id":6340,"date":"2021-01-12T11:55:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T16:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=6340"},"modified":"2021-01-12T11:55:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T16:55:32","slug":"girt-by-sea-tiny-landscapes-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=6340","title":{"rendered":"Girt By Sea – Tiny Landscapes, Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Silly me. I was on a roll with my 60cm x 40cm entry piece for the Oceania Distance and Diversity<\/em> cal, and well into the business of stitching my chosen Aussie motifs by hand; but I allowed myself to just get little bit of a start on my next Pandemic Pattern piece and as a result lost my concentration. Christmas and New Year came and went before I focused on it again… and when I picked it up to resume a few days ago, I saw lots of things ‘wrong’ with it – things I no longer like about it, and additionally, and in the meantime a new approach had taken root. Reluctantly I abandoned it and with determination decided to start again from scratch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I worked on a little landscape design in Richard McVetis’ workshop, it occurred to me that I could have fused all those little landscape pieces rather than piece them, setting them slightly apart so that some of the background shows through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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10cm x 10cm landscape, done in Richard McVetis StitchClub workshop, 2020.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I reasoned it wouldn’t take long to start again, so I abandoned what I’d already done and made a new sample using this approach, left, including some possible edge markings that I still haven’t finally decided on. Just this bit of experimenting tells me I’ll have a result I’ll be happier with. and it has to be soon – entries close at the end of January \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sample left – variety of markings at edges and hand drawn motifs. The landscape on the right is one from the abandoned work. <\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
  • There are some fabrics steeping in a strong tea bath to dull their bright whiteness.<\/li>
  • I’ve sprayed some new sky fabric<\/li>
  • The background will now be black instead of blue.<\/li>
  • I’ve checked my range of marker pens online for fastness and suitability for fabric. <\/li>
  • I decided to hand draw the detail motifs I want.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Pandemic Pattern 3’s<\/em> on hold while I wait for more thread which was gobbled up far faster than I expected, and I need much more to complete the rather large plan I have, as I’m definitely not going to make the work smaller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Silly me. I was on a roll with my 60cm x 40cm entry piece for the Oceania Distance and Diversity cal, and well into the business of stitching my chosen Aussie motifs by hand; but I allowed myself to just get little bit of a start on my next Pandemic Pattern piece and as a […]<\/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":[722,723],"class_list":["post-6340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fused-landscapes","tag-hand-drawn-details"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-1Eg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340","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=6340"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6347,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340\/revisions\/6347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}