{"id":7646,"date":"2022-10-10T17:01:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T22:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=7646"},"modified":"2022-10-10T17:01:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T22:01:16","slug":"quilt-national-23-acceptance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=7646","title":{"rendered":"Quilt National 23 Acceptance !"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good news last week &#8211; one of my pieces, <em><strong>&#8220;Abstract Landscape Textures&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> has been chosen for next year&#8217;s Quilt National.  That biennial always opens in The Dairy Barn, Athens OH, on the last weekend in May, which is USA&#8217;s Memorial Day holiday weekend. I don&#8217;t know yet if I will be there myself, but the quilt is almost on its way up there, because in a few weeks&#8217; time Mike and I are going up to visit the families, and I&#8217;ll ship it across to OH from Kansas City.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7652\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=7652\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Abstract-Landscape-Textures_75-x-36-blog-1.jpg?fit=500%2C270&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,270\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&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=\"Abstract-Landscape-Textures_75-x-36-blog-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Abstract-Landscape-Textures_75-x-36-blog-1.jpg?fit=300%2C162&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Abstract-Landscape-Textures_75-x-36-blog-1.jpg?fit=500%2C270&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Abstract-Landscape-Textures_75-x-36-blog-1.jpg?resize=794%2C429&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7652\" width=\"794\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Abstract-Landscape-Textures_75-x-36-blog-1.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Abstract-Landscape-Textures_75-x-36-blog-1.jpg?resize=300%2C162&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>Abstract Landscape Textures, 2021,   95cm h 190cm w,    36&#8243; x 75&#8243;    Quilt National 2023<\/em><\/strong>     <br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7651\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=7651\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Abstract-Landscape-Textures_detail-blog-1.jpg?fit=500%2C223&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,223\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&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=\"Abstract-Landscape-Textures_detail-blog-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Abstract-Landscape-Textures_detail-blog-1.jpg?fit=300%2C134&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Abstract-Landscape-Textures_detail-blog-1.jpg?fit=500%2C223&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Abstract-Landscape-Textures_detail-blog-1.jpg?resize=763%2C341&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7651\" width=\"763\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Abstract-Landscape-Textures_detail-blog-1.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Abstract-Landscape-Textures_detail-blog-1.jpg?resize=300%2C134&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>Abstract Landscape Textures,  2021,  detail<\/em><\/strong>.       <strong><em>Hand stitched raw edge qpplique, hand quilted.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The applied fabric shapes are of  a slightly metallic gold looking nylon organza, hand stitched with a soft gold polyester metallic thread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t write a whole post on this, but mentioned it once or twice as I worked on it &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=6260\">https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=6260<\/a>   I began work on it in late 2020, but work was suspended for a while late in early 2021 because I just couldn&#8217;t settle on what to put in the top 2\/3 section; and perhaps I needed a bit of a break, as it was very stitch intensive.  I kept putting it aside during that time while I made several smaller works, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=6656\">&#8220;Sunburnt Country&#8221;<\/a>, and my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=6939\">SAQA auction quilt for that year<\/a>, so by the time I picked this piece up again, I had decided what to do, but it was already more than half way through 2021.  But even then, it moved along slowly because I was by then absorbed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=7124\">the 100 day project<\/a>, and finally finished it off right at the end of last year, 2021.  <em><strong>I don&#8217;t recall ever taking so long to sign off on a work<\/strong><\/em><strong><em>!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news last week &#8211; one of my pieces, &#8220;Abstract Landscape Textures&#8221; has been chosen for next year&#8217;s Quilt National. That biennial always opens in The Dairy Barn, Athens OH, on the last weekend in May, which is USA&#8217;s Memorial Day holiday weekend. 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