{"id":8370,"date":"2024-01-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=8370"},"modified":"2024-01-18T09:21:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T14:21:26","slug":"the-power-of-sample-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=8370","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Sample Making"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I wish I had about another sets of hands, duplicate equipment and work spaces, so that I could follow several different ideas at a time – but dream on, Alison! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, one way to capture those ideas as they pop up in my mind is to make a quick sample, so that the ‘essence’ of that idea is there when I have time to come back to it and explore. I occasionally reach for my set of 100 x 3.5inch technique samples I mounted each day on foam core during the 2021 SAQA Reboot 100 day challenge – and here are some favourites, and a couple of those technical ideas have found their way into things I’ve done since. <\/p>\n\n\n

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One of the enduring inspirational themes in my art is ‘landscape’ in it’s broadest sense. Much of what I do is repeat units of diagrams in fabric and thread of recurring patterns of lines and shapes. In 2022 I acquired some fabric scraps from a fellow art quilter in USA. After adding more of my own, many of them wound up in lines, or strips, of pieced patches of colour –<\/p>\n\n\n

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So yesterday’s sample suddenly offered new potential for crossing over strips of pieced fabric onto a background and achieve a greater sense of depth… <\/p>\n\n\n

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Oh yes, and have I ever said that green is my favourite colour?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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