{"id":555,"date":"2008-08-16T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/playing-with-fabric\/"},"modified":"2016-08-28T21:05:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T04:05:45","slug":"playing-with-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/playing-with-fabric\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing with Fabric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mobile-photo\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SKbyIBGV-nI\/AAAAAAAAB3A\/ysvL9lN-js8\/s1600-h\/Image0059-711972.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SKbyIBGV-nI\/AAAAAAAAB3A\/ysvL9lN-js8\/s320\/Image0059-711972.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235137836412697202\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barsha is an artist I know who is the  poster girl for creative play. This stuffed bear is a good example. His story is that Barsha saw the fabric, bought it and just had to make something right away. I think the fabric makes the bear.<\/p>\n<p>We had a long discussion, similar to one that TFQ and I often have, about how people deal with their creativity. We came up with the possibility that people don&#8217;t feel free enough in their creativity (pressed for time so everything has to be perfect???) to just play and to make mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>Go forth and play with your fabrics and, yes, make mistakes.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-photo\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SKbyH0CfUyI\/AAAAAAAAB24\/exWA3oSD6SY\/s1600-h\/Image0060-711507.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SKbyH0CfUyI\/AAAAAAAAB24\/exWA3oSD6SY\/s320\/Image0060-711507.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235137832906871586\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barsha is an artist I know who is the poster girl for creative play. This stuffed bear is a good example. His story is that Barsha saw the fabric, bought it and just had to make something right away. I think the fabric makes the bear. We had a long discussion, similar to one that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/playing-with-fabric\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Playing with Fabric&#8221;<\/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":[388],"tags":[315,330],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-388","tag-fabric","tag-other-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","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=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}