{"id":37782,"date":"2017-08-29T11:42:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T18:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?page_id=37782"},"modified":"2024-03-02T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T01:49:10","slug":"womens-work-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts\/womens-work-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Work 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/jaye-test.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240301_164648_wm-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Women's Work\" width=\"285\" height=\"436\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women&#8217;s Work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div id=\"content-sidebartop\" style=\"display: block; float: right; width: 260px; border: 1px solid black; margin: 2px; padding: 2px;\">\n<p><strong>Materials<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: -20px;\">\n<li>100% cotton fabric<\/li>\n<li>100% cotton thread<\/li>\n<li>rayon thread<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Techniques<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: -20px;\">\n<li>Machine pieced<\/li>\n<li>Improv pieced<\/li>\n<li>Longarm quilted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cont-content\">\n<div id=\"content-sidebarbot\" style=\"display: block; float: right; width: 260px; border: 1px solid black; margin: 2px; padding: 2px;\">\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: -20px;\">\n<li>Year: 2003<\/li>\n<li>Size: 49w\u201dx 74l\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Fabric: various<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Quilted By:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: -20px;\">\n<li>Colleen Granger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Details<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Women\u2019s Work 1<\/strong>&nbsp;is the first in a series of quilts about women\u2019s work and the way it is depicted in American society. Despite women doing work outside the home, the home is still perceived as the domain of women. The work associated with the home mostly reflects on the woman of the house. The motifs in current fabrics are perfect for this series because many of them glorify tasks that most women find tedious. The blocks and the series for this quilt were begun at the 2003 Marin Needle Arts Guild symposium in a session with Gwen Marston. The freedom of her techniques is fun and \u2018liberating.\u2019<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sewlittletimequilting.com\/about.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&nbsp;Colleen Granger<\/a> did an excellent job quilting this piece.<\/p>\n<p>This quilt was shown at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Marin Quilt &amp; Needle Arts Show 2004<\/li>\n<li>City of Redwood City <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smcgov.org\/ceo\/womens-view-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women&#8217;s View<\/a> art exhibit, March 1 -April 26, 2024 (won Honorable Mention)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials 100% cotton fabric 100% cotton thread rayon thread Techniques Machine pieced Improv pieced Longarm quilted Details: Year: 2003 Size: 49w\u201dx 74l\u201d Fabric: various Quilted By: Colleen Granger &nbsp; Details Women\u2019s Work 1&nbsp;is the first in a series of quilts about women\u2019s work and the way it is depicted in American society. Despite women doing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts\/womens-work-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Women&#8217;s Work 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":3068,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37782","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37782"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61987,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37782\/revisions\/61987"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}