{"id":72,"date":"2006-02-04T03:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/forced-creativity-kissy-fish\/"},"modified":"2018-07-10T20:46:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T03:46:23","slug":"forced-creativity-kissy-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/forced-creativity-kissy-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced Creativity: Kissy Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/PICT4841.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3198\/262\/320\/PICT4841.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Kissy Fish<\/em> is a small piece that I created so I would have some handwork and be able to try a few things. I haven&#8217;t worked on it lately due to time, and didn&#8217;t for a long time, because of an injury. In a continuing effort to sew and make progress on my quiltmaking, I pulled out the project and brought it with me to DS&#8217; appointment today.<\/p>\n<p>Every Friday I have about an hour to do something portable and not computer related. I have been bringing blank paper and writing letters. Over Christmas, I brought Christmas cards and wrote those. It occurred to me today that I could bring a portable sewing\/quiltmaking project and make some small progress.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/KissyFishdet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3198\/262\/320\/KissyFishdet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"301\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn the detail above I have placed slash marks in the area I was able to accomplish in the hour I had to work on it.<\/p>\n<p>One reason I started this project was because of the embroidery articles in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quiltingartsllc.com\/\">Quilting Arts magazine<\/a>. I thought I would like to try some of the stitches, but am not interested at all in Redwork or an entire project based on embroidery such as a crazy quilt. I also had a lot of beads and thought it would be good to try beading out. Around that time I saw the work of quilt artist, Susan Carlson, on <a href=\"http:\/\/alexandersonquilts.com\/simplyquilts\/\">Simply Quilts<\/a> and was inspired to try both beading and embroidery in a free form sort of way on <em>Kissy Fish<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It is not meant to be a great work of ART. It is meant to be a test piece for me. I hope that it comes out well, but I am giving myself permission to do what I can and screw up if I need to. It is quite liberating to think this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kissy Fish is a small piece that I created so I would have some handwork and be able to try a few things. I haven&#8217;t worked on it lately due to time, and didn&#8217;t for a long time, because of an injury. In a continuing effort to sew and make progress on my quiltmaking, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/forced-creativity-kissy-fish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forced Creativity: Kissy Fish&#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":[369],"tags":[398,353],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-369","tag-kissy-fish","tag-process"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}