{"id":89,"date":"2006-04-08T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/quilt-wisdom-from-brazillian-musician\/"},"modified":"2022-04-09T11:38:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T18:38:30","slug":"quilt-wisdom-from-brazillian-musician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/quilt-wisdom-from-brazillian-musician\/","title":{"rendered":"Quilt Wisdom from Brazillian Musician"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was listening to Morning Edition this morning (April 7, 2006) and heard a bit of the last segment with Seu Jorge<\/a>, a Brazillian musician. He said [paraphrased] that Bob Dylan could write a very simple song that was sophisticated in its simplicity.<\/p>\n

When I heard this I realized that this is a goal that I strive to achieve in my quiltmaking. This comment coalesced some of my thinking about my quiltmaking. In making blocks to form a quilt design, I strive for a look that is sophisticated in its simplicity. It is not that simple, however, because you have to taking the fabrics, the thread, the quilting all into account. With fabric, and I realized this with the Thoughts on Dots<\/a> squares, you have to think about the “weight” of the look of the fabric. Does the fabric look or feel heavy or light, sherbety or cake-like?<\/p>\n

I would love to hear what this means to you. Please make a comment in the comments field or e-mail me via Artquiltmaker.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was listening to Morning Edition this morning (April 7, 2006) and heard a bit of the last segment with Seu Jorge, a Brazillian musician. He said [paraphrased] that Bob Dylan could write a very simple song that was sophisticated in its simplicity. When I heard this I realized that this is a goal that … Continue reading “Quilt Wisdom from Brazillian Musician”<\/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":[330,353],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-369","tag-other-artists","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\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55669,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/55669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}