{"id":37506,"date":"2017-08-10T05:33:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T12:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=37506"},"modified":"2017-08-06T21:42:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T04:42:14","slug":"art-quilt-river-of-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/art-quilt-river-of-sorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Quilt: River of Sorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kind of dramatic, huh? I am not sure what else to call the shape<\/em>. I have used this shape two other times – both on political quilts.<\/p>\n

I knew the approximate shape I wanted, so I made a paper template by taping a bunch of pieces of newsprint together.<\/p>\n

Then I cut out the fabric. Then I trimmed the fabric. Then I shaped the piece until I had it the way I wanted it.<\/p>\n

\"Down<\/a>
Down the Drain: River of Sorrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, I was able to put it on the wall. It didn’t stick, so there are pins you can’t see.<\/p>\n

\"Down<\/a>
Down the Drain: River of Sorrow-detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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  1. I wanted to make the shape look like it was going down a drain. I needed it to look like it was constrained in some way and forced to flow down.<\/li>\n
  2. I wanted the black border squares to go on top of the Shape. At this stage, I pinned the border over the shape to move in that direction.<\/li>\n
  3. The part of the ‘water’ that goes down a drain was hard to approximate. The shape you see in this picture is what I ended up with.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    After I got the approximate shape, I took fabric ink and a rubber stamp alphabet and wrote on the shape. I wrote words that described what I observed was going down the drain.<\/p>\n

    I always have a hard time naming my political quilts. Their names end up being straightforward and somewhat unsophisticated. I guess I have learned to go with that.<\/p>\n

    Posts about Down the Drain<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. I Have a Secret<\/a> – 8\/6\/2017<\/li>\n
    2. Art Quilt Start: Background<\/a> – 8\/8\/2017<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Kind of dramatic, huh? I am not sure what else to call the shape. I have used this shape two other times – both on political quilts. I knew the approximate shape I wanted, so I made a paper template by taping a bunch of pieces of newsprint together. Then I cut out the fabric. … Continue reading “Art Quilt: River of Sorrow”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[434],"tags":[149,444],"class_list":["post-37506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-434","tag-art-quilts","tag-down-the-drain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37506","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}