{"id":7115,"date":"2021-11-08T09:36:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T14:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=7115"},"modified":"2021-11-08T09:36:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T14:36:06","slug":"my-favourite-landscape-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=7115","title":{"rendered":"My Favourite Landscape Block"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I go back to this little basic block time and time again. I was a geography major, and much of what I had to present 55 years ago was in basic diagram form, and this is a really basic, diagrammatic way of saying ‘landscape’. Today a student would most likely illustrate a paper with digital photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gold lame segments ~4″ sq., metallic machine stitched between nylon organza .<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I have used this little abstract landscape block many times down the years, and though I last published this little sample in 2014, from various ‘clues’ in it the photo, I’m sure I actually put this one together several years before that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2006 I made Timetracks1<\/em> with hand appliqued gold leather segments (Quilt National 2007)… and there are several others, plus many more with curvy lines that also say ‘landscape’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Timetracks 1”, 2006, detail. Grid squares ~4inches..<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I put coloured segments of organza between layers of cream organza and, in the immediate aftermath of a workshop with Chungie Lee on the Korean wrapping cloths, Pojagi, that’s how I constructed these blocks, oversewn with gold machine stitching. Sorry the pic’s a bit grainy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve gone down this memory lane this morning because, as quite often happens, I came across that little sample while looking for something else. Today I’ve got a bit of time, and in my stash have a couple of metres of gold lame, many metres of black, light grey and cream nylon organza, and several miles of lame thread… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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