{"id":237,"date":"2005-10-01T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-01T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/01\/projects-musings-updates-pomegranate-green-tea\/"},"modified":"2005-10-01T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-01T14:21:00","slug":"projects-musings-updates-pomegranate-green-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/01\/projects-musings-updates-pomegranate-green-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects, Musings, Updates, Pomegranate Green Tea!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am in need of some time to create in solitude, let my creativity run free, play, etc, without uploading all those pictures!  I have a lot of wonderful things to complete, and I WILL post pictures in time!  For now, here&#8217;s my studio updates&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. Commissions- I am stitching up a wall hanging fit for a faerie princess ! This creation consists of castles and crowns, a princess, AND a friendly dragon! In cool blues and purples, oh my!<\/p>\n<p>2.  I am creating my own original textiles and surface design to be used in the wall hangings\/art quilts. I am currently using two very different methods, and loving both:<\/p>\n<p>         Hand painting silk charmeuse ( a lovely fabric, by the way http:\/\/www.dharmatrading.com\/html\/eng\/3474-AA.shtml) with steam set dyes and a resist. I have &#8220;resist&#8221; colors in silver, golden and black. The dyes must be set with steam for one hour plus in order to set them    permanently. The dye then &#8220;become one&#8221; with the silk proteins (as opposed to the paint and other media, which just sits on top of the fabric). The end product is just so translucent and shimmery.<\/p>\n<p>         Layering, fusing, painting, stitching like a madwoman to create my own wonderfully textured fabrics! I used this type of fabric for a Waterhouse-inspired art quilt once and the texture and shimmer was wonderful&#8230;<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/quilts\/quilt1.jpg. Now I am ready to try some original designs. <\/p>\n<p>3. I am creating a HUGE (40 by 50- big for me!) wall hanging of my Autumn Alter, so to preserve it forever in luxoriuos SILK!!! Painting, dying, layering&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>4. Creating some abstract textile designs, art quilts<\/p>\n<p>4. I bought a plethora of fabulous rayon threads. I never used rayon before. Boy, does it shine and shimmer. It looks so pretty with the silk. <\/p>\n<p>Well, back to sipping my pomegranate green tea (it&#8217;s just SO yummy!) playing with dyes, and listening to Mirabilis by the Mediaeval Baebes.<br \/>\na link for Pomegranate tea- http:\/\/www.bevnet.com\/news\/2005\/08-02-2005-Republic_POM.asp<br \/>\nA link for dye- http:\/\/www.dharmatrading.com\/html\/eng\/1796-AA.shtml<br \/>\nPlease dont mix &#8217;em up, and you MUST hear the new MB music, its wonderful!<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.mediaevalbaebes.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in need of some time to create in solitude, let my creativity run free, play, etc, without uploading all those pictures! I have a lot of wonderful things to complete, and I WILL post pictures in time! For now, here&#8217;s my studio updates&#8230; 1. Commissions- I am stitching up a wall hanging fit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/01\/projects-musings-updates-pomegranate-green-tea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Projects, Musings, Updates, Pomegranate Green Tea!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}