{"id":105,"date":"2009-12-19T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janesassaman.gloderworks.net\/weblog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2009-12-19T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T14:35:00","slug":"life-totem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Life Totem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_9YjpnF9wtEg\/SyzkyQiR32I\/AAAAAAAAA04\/ieqaUPBhqz8\/s1600-h\/Life+Totum.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 137px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/janesassaman.gloderworks.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Life+Totum.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416956003903201122\" \/><\/a>Here is my latest art quilt, Life Totem (23&#8243; X 71&#8243;). It all began in a fit exasperation, tired of the endless practical duties which had taken over my life. I needed to make a quilt! So I began by making flower and bug &#8220;parts&#8221; and rummaging through my file of orphaned shapes from old projects.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div> The totem idea has been brewing since the Garden of Shadows quilt, so it was a natural way to organize the composition. The colors came automatically and the fabrics shapes are all hand dyed cotton. The background is white brocade, which creates a white on white pattern as a contrast to the solid colored applique.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As I moved the shapes the characters began to take form. I enjoy imposing extreme discipline on unruly objects, as you may have noticed. I think this is also one of the reasons I like to design fabric, which is my first challenge for the new year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Enjoy your blessings and take it easy this week, my friends. Happy Holidays!!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my latest art quilt, Life Totem (23&#8243; X 71&#8243;). It all began in a fit exasperation, tired of the endless practical duties which had taken over my life. I needed to make a quilt! So I began by making flower and bug &#8220;parts&#8221; and rummaging through my file of orphaned shapes from old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}