{"id":6353,"date":"2020-03-24T17:11:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T00:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/?p=6353"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:43:08","slug":"staying-home-and-escaping-to-the-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/staying-home-and-escaping-to-the-studio","title":{"rendered":"Staying home and escaping to the studio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Like many people these days, we\u2019re staying home. We\u2019re staying home, mesmerized and saddened by the heartbreaking news on the internet and trying to cope. We\u2019re staying home and by doing so, we\u2019re doing our bit by not getting ill. Which I think is pretty easy in comparison to all of those who are out on the front lines doing much more than that. We’re very grateful for everyone from healthcare staff to all of those working grocery stores and all the other essential services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So we\u2019re staying home and becoming quite creative with cooking and baking, making our groceries last to avoid going out. We\u2019re staying home and doing a bit of gardening. Ok, maybe a bit too much of that all at once, got a back spasm and had to rest that for a while. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And we\u2019re staying home, and escaping the news and seeking some meditative time by working in our studios. Will is working on lino cuts in his studio. I\u2019m working on the latest free motion sewing and fabric collages. Hopefully, a lot of people are finding creative ways to cope with staying home in these very scary and difficult times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I\u2019m sharing my latest fabric collages, in bright and cheerful colours, paying forward the inspiration I\u2019ve gotten from others and offering a bit of inspiration of my own on what to do with all that stash of material and perhaps a little antidote to the state of things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These were all done with basically the same materials. This time, a bright red material caught my eye and with it I found other bits and pieces to create three different collages. Instead of a white background, I went for a very colourful backing. The first was also my first attempt at \u201ccouching\u201d or applying a cord with stitching to the surface design. Couldn\u2019t get quite the loops I wanted with just zig zag stitch but still I\u2019m happy with the result. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fabric<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The next has my latest attempt at \u201ccouching” included. I don\u2019t have the proper foot on my machine for this, so I\u2019m faking it with an open toe free motion foot. I will admit to a bit of swearing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fabric<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This one is the last in the series on the red background. The turquoise arcs in these are left over from a pattern cut out for neckline interfacing on a tunic I made. I never throw out anything and that\u2019s handy when you\u2019re into fabric collage. For my next pieces, I\u2019m eyeing a rather lovely piece of orange satin as the base. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fabric<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s all hope that there will soon be a happier end to this stressful time. I\u2019ll be checking all the artists that I follow for inspiration on coping while staying home. In the meantime, take care. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like many people these days, we\u2019re staying home. We\u2019re staying home, mesmerized and saddened by the heartbreaking news on the internet and trying to cope. We\u2019re staying home and by doing so, we\u2019re doing our bit by not getting ill. Which I think is pretty easy in comparison to all of those who are out Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1022,1161,1174,1],"tags":[1167,1171,1173,1163,1215,1172],"class_list":["post-6353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collage","category-fabric-collage","category-free-motion-sewing","category-musings","tag-fabric-collage-by-helen-bushell","tag-fabric-collage-summerhouseart-com","tag-fabric-stash","tag-free-motion-sewing","tag-small-abstract-fabric-collage","tag-staying-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6353"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6971,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions\/6971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}