{"id":7680,"date":"2022-12-02T13:27:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T18:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=7680"},"modified":"2022-12-02T13:27:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T18:27:01","slug":"ive-been-away-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=7680","title":{"rendered":"I’ve Been Away – 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At last, after all the unpacking and washing that always has to be done at the end of a trip, and several urgent banking and other life-managing things to be done that couldn’t wait, it was a bit tantalising to unpack things like the large quantity of scraps and snippets I was gifted by a fellow textile artist :<\/p>\n\n\n

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Some of the gifted wonderful scraps of hand dyed and screen printed fabrics.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I love hand stitched raw edge applique…<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Method testing of scrap strips – machine piecing, bonding web and hand stitch.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In 2019, I used this technique of over sewing of raw edges strips for a small work “Bush Colours”<\/a> https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=5818 . It’s always bothered me a little that those strips didn’t stay entirely flat but sort of rose up in the middle, and I’ve since realised that although I love the raw edges and don’t want to ditch them, by using a little Misty Fuse or similar bonding web along just the middle on the back of the strip, the fabric will stay flat when it’s been stitched over. I use a hoop of frame to avoid the fabric being pulled sight, as I have a tendency to pull the stitching a little tight. <\/p>\n\n\n

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L- fabric backed with fusible web before cutting and ironing into place R – fabric without fusible backing produced very pronounced frayed edge <\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At last, after all the unpacking and washing that always has to be done at the end of a trip, and several urgent banking and other life-managing things to be done that couldn’t wait, it was a bit tantalising to unpack things like the large quantity of scraps and snippets I was gifted by a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","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":[805,359],"class_list":["post-7680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-pieced-scraps","tag-scraps"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-1ZS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680","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=7680"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7690,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions\/7690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}