{"id":451,"date":"2008-10-11T16:53:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T16:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/?p=451"},"modified":"2008-12-08T13:52:03","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T13:52:03","slug":"maybe-its-a-goblin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"maybe it&#8217;s a goblin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>okay. am i working on this piece or is it working on me?<\/p>\n<p>sigh.<\/p>\n<p>let&#8217;s review:<br \/>\nday 1: enjoyed collection of and introduction to materials.<\/p>\n<p>day 2: discontent set in. liked the backside better, so back is now the front.<\/p>\n<p>day 3: hate the lace, but like the way layers peek out from under the pink satin camisole as if they&#8217;d been sat upon, squished by the pink. when i started the piece, i fancied the fabrics as representative of various layers of my life. the pink satin = the pretty, fresh, little girl layer where i was absolutely adorable to look at and be around. now here&#8217;s little pink layer sitting on the other determined layers. i tend to personify and anthropomorphize, it&#8217;s true. (which makes me think of <a href=\"http:\/\/threadspider.wordpress.com\/\">judith&#8217;s<\/a> pathways, actually. and here i&#8217;ve been too embarrassed to admit publicly that i make up stories like this with my pieces.)<\/p>\n<p>which brings us to day 4\/today: i know i ought to take the advice of my stitching sages and put this piece up, tuck it in a drawer, set it aside for a while, but honestly, there are so many unfinished things, so many loose ends in my life right now that i just can&#8217;t do it. i can&#8217;t. i want to finish something, dammit. and, bless its heart, this project is what&#8217;s going to satisfy that desire. i know i run the risk of hating the piece forever and ever, but (for now anyway), the quest continues.<\/p>\n<p>i tinkered around with it this morning, deciding to pull up the ends of the thread. i mean, they were just hanging there anyway (i didn&#8217;t bother with knots or embedding them or anything.) as i &#8220;worked&#8221;, i listened to susan susanka&#8217;s book, the not so big life. i have a strong affinity for place, and one of my favorite thinking candies is how our physical spaces support us. as i pulled those threads,<\/p>\n<p>i got sculpture. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/101108b.jpg\" alt=\"101108b.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"375\" height=\"281\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>i got cubbies.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/101108e.jpg\" alt=\"101108e.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"375\" height=\"281\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>i got whatzits.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/101108f.jpg\" alt=\"101108f.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"375\" height=\"281\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>but i got no ah-ha. no magic. no eureka.<\/p>\n<p>and that damned lace has to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>okay. am i working on this piece or is it working on me? sigh. let&#8217;s review: day 1: enjoyed collection of and introduction to materials. day 2: discontent set in. liked the backside better, so back is now the front. day 3: hate the lace, but like the way layers peek out from under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,11,31,17,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embers","category-fodder","category-my-life-in-stitches","category-natural-curl","category-shelter-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}