{"id":7028,"date":"2012-02-28T10:01:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T15:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=7028"},"modified":"2012-02-28T17:03:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T22:03:53","slug":"adding-hand-stitching-to-artifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=7028","title":{"rendered":"Adding hand stitching to Artifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7035\" title=\"Artifications_Hansen-gloria-web\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Artifications_Hansen-gloria-web.jpg\" alt=\"Artifications @2011 Gloria Hansen\" width=\"450\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Artifications_Hansen-gloria-web.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Artifications_Hansen-gloria-web-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Artifications_Hansen-gloria-web-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><br \/>\nI made this piece, <em>Artifications<\/em>, in 2011.\u00a0 The inspiration for it came from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.\u00a0 I remember reading a review in the NY Times describing it as a place where &#8220;computer artifacts come alive.&#8221; Last year when Derry and I went to MacWorld, we took a train to Mountain View to visit the Museum.\u00a0 I totally loved it, took many pictures, and agreed that the artifacts certainly did seem to come alive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7034\" title=\"Artifications-detail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Artifications-detail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Artifications-detail.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Artifications-detail-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although I did have the quilt on exhibit at the Houston IQA show this past fall, it never quite felt finished to me.\u00a0 In looking at the piece, my eye kept going to some of the curved lines formed in the grid. \u00a0 After some thought, I decided to remove the top and bottom hanging pockets and some of the facing.\u00a0 I then used a variegated perle cotton thread, and began hand stitching various curved lines.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7033\" title=\"Artifications-detail-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Artifications-detail-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Artifications-detail-1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Artifications-detail-1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The quilt came with me this year to MacWorld where I worked on it in my room at night.\u00a0 It feels like it went full circle, ending where the inspiration began.\u00a0 The piece is now at the NJ Quilt Festival where it will be on display this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made this piece, Artifications, in 2011.\u00a0 The inspiration for it came from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.\u00a0 I remember reading a review in the NY Times describing it as a place where &#8220;computer artifacts come alive.&#8221; Last year when Derry and I went to MacWorld, we took a train to Mountain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-artquilt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7028"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7043,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028\/revisions\/7043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}