{"id":2301,"date":"2013-12-30T21:32:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T21:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2013-12-30T21:32:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T21:32:06","slug":"winter-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/?p=2301","title":{"rendered":"Winter Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Gantner-Winter-Cemetery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2302\" alt=\"Gantner Winter Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Gantner-Winter-Cemetery.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Gantner-Winter-Cemetery.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Gantner-Winter-Cemetery-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We had a quiet cozy Christmas day at our house this year. No kids for the first time ever!\u00a0We will have our Christmas together next week. But the company of my lovely mother-in-law and witty brother-in-law made the day a delight. Plus the landscape was perfectly &#8220;Currier and Ives&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Gantner-Winter-Light.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2303\" alt=\"Gantner Winter Light\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Gantner-Winter-Light.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Gantner-Winter-Light.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Gantner-Winter-Light-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Greg took these beautiful shots during his daily explorations. Notice the icing on the trees!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have been attempting to stick with my plan of concentrating more of my schedule to making art quilts again. I snagged some holiday time to work on this new piece. It&#8217;s a simple totem, 26&#8243; X 62&#8243;, composed of basic shapes as a nice surface for playing with stitches. It was inspired by some ancient alchemist illustrations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sassaman-Art-Quilt-Totem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2304\" alt=\"Sassaman Art Quilt Totem\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sassaman-Art-Quilt-Totem.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sassaman-Art-Quilt-Totem.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sassaman-Art-Quilt-Totem-125x300.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The top is all raw edged applique finished with satin stitch. But I plan to get very adventurous with fancier stitching in the quilting. I am also imagining some gold metallic threads to add to the esoteric spirit of the piece.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sassaman-Art-Quilt-Totem-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2305\" alt=\"Sassaman Art Quilt Totem 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sassaman-Art-Quilt-Totem-2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sassaman-Art-Quilt-Totem-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sassaman-Art-Quilt-Totem-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here it is on the work table during the basting phase. So now it is ready to be quilted whenever I can grab a few quality hours at the sewing machine, as designing the autumn fabric line begins in earnest on the first day of the new year. So far I&#8217;m thinking of a Weeds and Seeds theme, but initial ideas often transform as the collection evolves. We shall see!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sassaman-Art-Quilt-Totem-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2306\" alt=\"Sassaman Art Quilt Totem 3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sassaman-Art-Quilt-Totem-3.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sassaman-Art-Quilt-Totem-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sassaman-Art-Quilt-Totem-3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But as an artist with tunnel vision will I be able to work on two projects at once? But it is a nice dilemma to have, since I love doing BOTH!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Happy and Healthy New Year, my friends!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a quiet cozy Christmas day at our house this year. No kids for the first time ever!\u00a0We will have our Christmas together next week. But the company of my lovely mother-in-law and witty brother-in-law made the day a delight. Plus the landscape was perfectly &#8220;Currier and Ives&#8221;. Greg took these beautiful shots during [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,23,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-quilts","category-christmas","category-studio"],"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\/2301","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=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307,"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions\/2307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}