{"id":9078,"date":"2024-12-08T17:54:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T22:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=9078"},"modified":"2024-12-08T17:54:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T22:54:45","slug":"improvisational-or-make-it-up-as-you-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=9078","title":{"rendered":"Improvisational, Or Make It Up As You Go"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So on Felipe&#8217;s recommendation, a few days ago I visited his friend Nilda, and found some wonderful beads &#8211; tiny seed ones, larger ones and bugle beads, all with the same dark multi-colour finish, like an oil slick on water.  I had been thinking &#8216;green&#8217;, working a design around some wonderful green hand shaped glass beads I bought in Egypt years ago, but that idea can wait for another time, as these beads spoke to me.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"468\" data-attachment-id=\"9079\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=9079\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Glass-and-textile-2025-1-blog.jpg?fit=500%2C468&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,468\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Galaxy A54 5G&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1733596921&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.54&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.04&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Glass and textile 2025   1     blog\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Glass-and-textile-2025-1-blog.jpg?fit=300%2C281&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Glass-and-textile-2025-1-blog.jpg?fit=500%2C468&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Glass-and-textile-2025-1-blog.jpg?resize=500%2C468&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Glass-and-textile-2025-1-blog.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Glass-and-textile-2025-1-blog.jpg?resize=300%2C281&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As I picked through and auditioned possible materials, I found this great hand dyed purple in my stash, and it&#8217;s a perfect background for the beads, so I machine stitched some of it with this holographic thread  that recently emerged from hiding.  I&#8217;m considering stuffed forms for this piece, <em><strong>but am quite certain that metres of threaded beads are in my near future \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/em>  The result will be my entry for the second Glass and Textile Art Salon for which entries close on February 1st.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So on Felipe&#8217;s recommendation, a few days ago I visited his friend Nilda, and found some wonderful beads &#8211; tiny seed ones, larger ones and bugle beads, all with the same dark multi-colour finish, like an oil slick on water. 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