{"id":263,"date":"2012-10-14T22:58:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T21:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2013-03-26T20:37:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T20:37:48","slug":"plenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/14\/plenty\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Plenty More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"48e5397a39c6ea4ae31e40d674b2fea7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- july 2019 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9380921822254336\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9798147637\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1-IMG_3242.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1-IMG_3242-820x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"There&#039;s Plenty more\" width=\"700\" height=\"874\" class=\"size-large wp-image-264\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1-IMG_3242-820x1024.jpg 820w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1-IMG_3242-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Favourite Quilt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My Favourite quilt, the one I\u2019m most proud of, the one which hasn\u2019t yet been washed, and the one no-one is allowed to sit on, is called \u201cThere\u2019s plenty more\u201d. \u00a0I collected together scraps of almost every fabric in my stash and my mother\u2019s, it even has a contribution from a friend, who began a dress and never finished it, back in the 1980\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>I cut a simple triangle out of them, and then sorted them from lightest to darkest; in order to shade the quilt from dark in the centre to light at the edge, what represented \u201clight\u201d in the centre would be a \u201cdark\u201d at the edge. I made 4 columns of the cut triangles, from darkest in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> column to lightest in the 4<sup>th<\/sup>, then broadly speaking working from the centre of the Quilt to the edge I began matching the fabric in the first column to the fabric in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.\u00a0 By the time I reached the edges the fabric in column 3 which had been used as \u201dlight\u201d now \u00a0represented \u201cdark\u201d .<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_265\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-265\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1-IMG_3244.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1-IMG_3244-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Centre of favourite quilt\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-265\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1-IMG_3244-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1-IMG_3244-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">so many happy memories<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the quilt is fabric from that favourite dress I wore when I was eight, (see \u201c There\u2019s nothing new about recycling\u201d), there are also fabrics from the 60\u2019s , 70\u2019s, 80\u2019s, and 90\u2019s, just looking at the centre, I can see the remnants of clothing \u00a0worn by myself, my sister, my mother and my niece, there are Liberty fabrics, a blouse here, a pair of Capri pants there, Laura Ashley dresses, patchwork packs once sold in the shops, when Laura Ashley was still alive and encouraging hand -made crafts. My Niece\u2019s little baby dresses, shorts I made for her to match my own. Each time I look at this quilt I see another fabric memory, not just of the individual garments they came from, but where we were and what we were doing when we wore them.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Each time I look at this quilt I see another fabric memory, not just of the individual garments they came from, but where we were and what we were doing when we wore them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[9,944,13,10,12,16,8,942,6,14,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}