{"id":6359,"date":"2021-01-18T14:03:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T19:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2021-01-19T08:40:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T13:40:22","slug":"tiny-landscapes-topstitching-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=6359","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Landscapes Topstitching Done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"255\" data-attachment-id=\"6361\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=6361\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Girt-By-Sea-2-sample-4-Topstitched-units-blog.jpg?fit=500%2C255&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,255\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Girt-By-Sea-2-sample-4-Topstitched-units-blog\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Girt-By-Sea-2-sample-4-Topstitched-units-blog.jpg?fit=300%2C153&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Girt-By-Sea-2-sample-4-Topstitched-units-blog.jpg?fit=500%2C255&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Girt-By-Sea-2-sample-4-Topstitched-units-blog.jpg?resize=500%2C255&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Girt-By-Sea-2-sample-4-Topstitched-units-blog.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Girt-By-Sea-2-sample-4-Topstitched-units-blog.jpg?resize=300%2C153&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>Little landscapes, topstitched<\/em><\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I estimate that the fabric scraps selection, cutting, bonding and topstitching  has taken at least an hour for each of the 24 landscapes. From here there is probably another hour&#8217;s work on each one, hand drawing certain motifs and patterns, and what I&#8217;ve decided to do about the edges.   It&#8217;s conceivable I might mess at least one up and need to replace that segment &#8230;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So for the next couple of days I&#8217;ll be thinking about the necessary quilting, and how I&#8217;m going to treat the border of the quilt.  I&#8217;m about 1\/3 way through an absorbing book, Isobel Wilkerson&#8217;s <em>&#8220;Caste: the Origins of Our Discontents&#8221;<\/em> on how concepts of caste and racism in the USA stretch right back to the earliest colonists.  Just as well it&#8217;s long, I have hours to go.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I estimate that the fabric scraps selection, cutting, bonding and topstitching has taken at least an hour for each of the 24 landscapes. From here there is probably another hour&#8217;s work on each one, hand drawing certain motifs and patterns, and what I&#8217;ve decided to do about the edges. It&#8217;s conceivable I might mess at [&hellip;]<\/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-6359","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-1Ez","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359","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=6359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6363,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions\/6363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}