{"id":3625,"date":"2009-11-26T06:37:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T13:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2016-04-08T13:48:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T20:48:09","slug":"the-return-of-kissy-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/the-return-of-kissy-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Kissy Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Kissy<\/a>
Kissy Fish Full, Nov. 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Back in the Quilting Arts<\/em> Dark Ages, they showed some embroidery stitches over a series of pages. Somehow those embroidery stitches combined with a viewing of\u00a0 quilt artist Susan Carlson’s work on Simply Quilts<\/a> inspired me to get started on Kissy Fish.<\/p>\n

As an aside: I am not getting back to the bleary photos, this piece is really, no REALLY, hard to photograph with the equipment I have.<\/p>\n

This piece is covered with shiny things that reflect the light: beads, french ribbon, thread with metallic bits. It is on the list to be professionally photographed. Anyway.<\/p>\n

\"Kissy<\/a>
Kissy Fish, detail 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The stitches I used most frequently on this piece are called Feather Stitch. It was highlighted in Quilting Arts #1. It was really fun to see how the stitches added to the piece and helped it develop. It was fun to see how I could make each bit of kelp different with beads, varying widths of thread, etc.<\/p>\n

\"Kissy<\/a>
Kissy Fish, detail 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the things I knew about this piece was that it wasn’t intended to be a masterpiece. It was intended to be a test. It has turned out much better than a test.<\/p>\n

I also never intended it to be hung as a quilt is hung. I always intended that it would be framed and hung like a piece of traditional art. That is still my plan.<\/p>\n

I think the hand embroidery is mostly done. As I do on many of my Pamela pieces, I went about the process backwards. I did the embroidery first and now am thinking I need to do more quilting.\u00a0 Machine quilting. I’ll have to seriously think about it, because I don’t want to break the beads or my careful stitching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in the Quilting Arts Dark Ages, they showed some embroidery stitches over a series of pages. Somehow those embroidery stitches combined with a viewing of\u00a0 quilt artist Susan Carlson’s work on Simply Quilts inspired me to get started on Kissy Fish. As an aside: I am not getting back to the bleary photos, this … Continue reading “The Return of Kissy Fish”<\/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":[313,398,332],"class_list":["post-3625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-embellishment","tag-kissy-fish","tag-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625","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=3625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}