{"id":2478,"date":"2016-12-01T20:07:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T20:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2016-12-01T20:07:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T20:07:28","slug":"switching-gears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/switching-gears\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching Gears"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s\u00a0no arguing\u00a0that persistence is one of the\u00a0jewels in our proverbial bag of tricks.\u00a0But there are definitely times when there’s more to be gained from allowing yourself\u00a0to switch gears, especially in the face of a wall that, for the moment, seems insurmountable.<\/p>\n

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In Process \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a92016 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

I have been struggling with too many false starts on this piece over the past couple of weeks, spending as much time taking stitches out as I have\u00a0putting them in. While I am loving the colors and the swoop of the pattern as it rises and falls through the layers, I\u00a0am having a heck of a hard time taking it to the next level. So it’s going\u00a0up on my wall where I can live with it, allowing time and distance to\u00a0work their\u00a0magic. Having put it\u00a0aside, I’m on to something completely new to give my brain an airing out, making for a nice change this week.<\/p>\n

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Stitching guidelines marked on raw silk<\/p><\/div>\n

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Stitching, stitching, & more stitching<\/p><\/div>\n

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Just slightly pulling the threads begins to reveal a beautiful pattern.<\/p><\/div>\n

Although this form of shibori is named “mokume”, meaning ‘wood grain’, it also reminds me of Ansel Adams’ photographs of sand dunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Soaking the fabric in water allows me to pull the threads all the tighter.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The first application of dye<\/p><\/div>\n

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A mixture of red, brown and eggplant. I have\u00a0to be careful that the dye gets into all the nooks and crannies.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Since this type of dye only adheres to protein fibers (i.e. silk, wool, etc), it doesn’t affect the cotton thread, which is a cellulose fiber. This makes it much easier to find the tight knots and to snip them without nicking the fabric.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Removing all the threads reveals this incredible pattern. It still takes my breath away each time.<\/p><\/div>\n

And now to get begin the\u00a0next stage…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s\u00a0no arguing\u00a0that persistence is one of the\u00a0jewels in our proverbial bag of tricks.\u00a0But there are definitely times when there’s more to be gained from allowing yourself\u00a0to switch gears, especially in the face of a wall that, for the moment, seems insurmountable. I have been struggling with too many false starts on this piece over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[17],"tags":[395,394,19,393,396],"class_list":["post-2478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-process","tag-ansel-adams","tag-mokume","tag-shibori","tag-switching-gears","tag-wood-grain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5kO5z-DY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions\/2492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}