{"id":7254,"date":"2022-01-29T15:56:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T20:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=7254"},"modified":"2022-01-29T15:56:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T20:56:40","slug":"not-quite-grids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=7254","title":{"rendered":"Not-Quite Grids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A few days ago I cut a stencil from the several metres 180cm wide piece of neon orange nylon I have, and used white to print on a piece of faded black:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A 40cm sq. stencil <\/strong>hand cut form neon orange nylon, with a white print on faded black.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I intend to add ‘something’ and work it up into a 40sq.cm piece, which is a nice size for the smaller works I’m currently interested in making. At the same time, I hand painted some squares of gold paint onto another piece of black – a slightly disappointing outcome, but who knows what might come from it, and painted some gold squares onto some plain light grey:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am thinking of quilted or mixed media textile works, and possibly one might be useful as a base in the upcoming Stitch Club workshop with Jessica Grady <\/a> over this week and next. From what I can see of her work, at first glance most of them look like exciting party platters – lots of brightly coloured bits of stuff – but her work is compiled of lots of material embellishments made from various selected and discarded materials, reminding me somewhat of the more formally arranged mandalas of Susan Lenz<\/a> who both retrieves discarded objects and at times actively breaks down into component parts something complicated like a piano, in which there are so many repeat parts. I haven’t watched Jessica’s tutorial video yet, but I do know we’re going to be making our own embellishments and can already see that has a lot of potential… for now, or sometime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before I tackle that workshop, though, I want to finish the 40cm piece I’m currently working on. I fused lemon citrus coloured shapes onto light grey, hand stitched the edges with some of the neon-lemon-green thread (of which I still have about 1400m) layered it, finely hand quilted around each of those shapes with toning grey, and am currently auditioning how I’m going to quilt cross the grey areas: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Above – I like the 5 pointed stars in the top panel, but will save them for another more suitable work, as the texture overwhelms the shapes and their textures.
I think this needs lines of flow, for the shapes to sit on\/in front of, and my decision is between
* the top line (rayon, fine and very shiny)
* second line the polyester machine sewing thread (fine but not shiny)
* lowest line – the same heavy duty nylon that I used around the edges for the stars (top)<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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