{"id":9123,"date":"2024-12-30T14:43:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T19:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=9123"},"modified":"2024-12-30T14:43:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T19:43:36","slug":"in-planning-mode-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=9123","title":{"rendered":"In Planning Mode for 2025 :-)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We’re in that odd, calm few days between Christmas and New Year which I love if I’m at home, as we are this year, with plenty of time for reviewing and reflecting at a personal level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several fellow SAQA artists were recently pondering how they keep whatever records they do – titles, dimensions, dates of completion, buyers, wales records, exhibition records, artist statements and more items I’d never bother with – like keeping working drawings and patterns made and used – none of which really apply to my way of working. I don’t usually fully document the working of each art quilt, but sometimes blog with ideas and pics, or samples, sometimes, in addition to diagrams in my blank notebook, perhaps a list of possible titles there, too, as I work through each piece. Several mentioned using Excel data sheets for each work – I used to keep an index card file which is still inaccessible in the filing cabinet in storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It all set me thinking that my records and the minimal planning I do could <\/em>be a bit more organised, which could describe my sewing room, too – and in each case, everything relevant is there, but not necessarily 100% ‘tidy’. I think back on how wonderful has been my own progression from the end of the one table in the tiny first house we lived in, to a table and work area in a guest room (that had to be packed up and cleared away for visitors several times a year) to an actual cupboard of my own with a fold out work table and powerpoint for my machine, to finally an actual room completely my own in a house with too many bedrooms (nest emptying) which I’ve essentially acquired in every move since the late 80s, and I’ve always been grateful for it, even if there’s never been a wet space, and storage is not ideal – and all that does have an influence on what I do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As this quiet period began, I offered guidance to someone who was wondering how to write an artist statement for their quilt to enter it somewhere, and thought it could be a good idea to set up a document file containing progress images, lists of word associations, synonyms, a quote etc, that might suggest an eventual title and make the writing of a statement for the work much easier once it was done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I seem to have taken this a step further this morning, in actually planning a couple of works ahead of calls I will want to enter this coming year, especially ArtQuiltAustralia 25, and Quilt National 25. I thought about my recent work, and noting at the top of this planning doc “Make works the same size eg 95h x 130w, that if accepted will roll in FedEx tube.\u00a0These new works need to reflect my current focus on texture and grids of a kind…”, but this statement in no way binds me to stick to that plan \ud83d\ude42 <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in 2021 I did a SAQA 100 day challenge<\/a><\/strong> (the link takes you to a blog post I wrote about it) and one of the samples I made in that challenge was a small 3.25inch sample in fused fabric and stitch, inspired by an intriguing image I saw on Pinterest<\/a> of a painting by an unidentified Australian Aboriginal artist, and part of that interpretation I used it as the header for my FB Fabric Artist page<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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3.25sq.in sample, 2021, adhesive bonding web, hand stitch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I’d like to follow that idea further, as I did earlier this year <\/p>\n\n\n

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detail, Green Dimension 2, 2024, largest circle ~5cm diameter.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Other bullet points on the planning doc include ideas about stitched squares, with this sample from the same 100 day challenge, beginning my experimentation with them…. <\/p>\n\n\n

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3.25sq.in sample: orange stitched motifs on grey fabric<\/em><\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

And I’ve also got ‘holes’ and ‘grids’ on my mind, too, so they’re involved in the planning process. On Pinterest I save images of holes<\/a> <\/strong>and grids<\/strong><\/a> both of which, for different reasons, I find thought provoking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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