{"id":1554,"date":"2009-04-12T20:41:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T03:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2016-03-16T22:03:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T05:03:10","slug":"work-doesnt-seem-like-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/work-doesnt-seem-like-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Doesn’t Seem Like Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, I have been working on the Tarts<\/a>, but often the work I am doing seems like no progress rather than actually work.<\/p>\n

\"Drawing<\/a>
Drawing for tea kettle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I started out with this drawing for the last block, presumably for the space in the lower left hand corner. I found a drawing as inspiration and once I had that crutch to get me started, I took it off in my own direction. I kept thinking about a tea kettle I once knew in Austria.<\/p>\n

Once I had a drawing I liked, I had to pick fabric which turned out to be much harder than I thought. I think I have said before that there just aren’t enough colors for me. I thought a pinky-orange would look good, but couldn’t find he appropriate shade in my fabrics, so I tried others. As Lorraine Torrence<\/a> says “make visual decisions visually.”<\/p>\n

\"Auditioning<\/a>
Auditioning Fabric #1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I started with a green as background even though I really thought the pinky-orange would be better.<\/p>\n

\"Auditioning<\/a>
Auditioning Fabric #2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The green is okay, but the kettle color isn’t quite right.<\/p>\n

\"Auditioning<\/a>
Auditioning Fabric #3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Moving on and trying other colors. Finally tried a pinky-orange I had. It wasn’t quite right with the reds near it.<\/p>\n

\"Auditioning<\/a>
Auditioning Fabric #4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Still not right, though I liked the purply-pink background better.<\/p>\n

\"Auditioning<\/a>
Auditioning Fabric #5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The orange is a little too brown!<\/p>\n

\"Auditioning<\/a>
Auditioning Fabric #6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I am no longer having fun.<\/p>\n

\"Auditioning<\/a>
Auditioning Fabric #7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will this torment ever end?<\/p>\n

\"Auditioning<\/a>
Auditioning Fabric #8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A bit closer???<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Tarts Come to Tea, 4\/12\/2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, I decided on the purply-pink hand-dye with space alien lime green. It was okay at the bottom of the quilt, though I kept thinking that the thermos-like block might be better at the bottom. I changes a lot, but I am trying it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, I have been working on the Tarts, but often the work I am doing seems like no progress rather than actually work. I started out with this drawing for the last block, presumably for the space in the lower left hand corner. I found a drawing as inspiration and once I had that crutch … Continue reading “Work Doesn’t Seem Like Work”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[3,310,252,231],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-applique","tag-color","tag-project-quilt","tag-tarts-come-to-tea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}