{"id":5,"date":"2004-04-11T20:40:28","date_gmt":"2004-04-11T20:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitch.hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2004-04-11T20:40:28","modified_gmt":"2004-04-11T20:40:28","slug":"fiber_artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/fiber_artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiber Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been rummaging around the Internet to see if there&#8217;s any possibly that there&#8217;s people out there who consider quilt making to be something other than an over-50 hobby, or for that fact, even a real art. As hard as it is to find some of these people, there are some really cool fiber artists who do some interesting work. The latest website that I&#8217;ve come across are the quilts done by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marthabruindegen.com\/\">Martha Bruin Degen<\/a>, and I think they&#8217;re pretty cool. She does a lot of work by hand, and although I&#8217;m a believer in the old-fashioned school of hand quilting, they&#8217;re not your typical Log Cabin quilt. I really love the fact that while some of her pieces look like traditional quilts, they have processes in them that most quilters, even good quilters, wouldn&#8217;t ever think about doing. Some of it reminds me of the &#8220;Many Deaths of Sunbonnet Sue&#8221; quilt. It&#8217;s definitely interesting art either way.<br \/>\nStepping away from quilting to a fiber art that I really have no interest in trying, but think is somehow perfect for any new-age domestic lady in waiting to try is cross-stitch. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subversivecrossstitch.com\/\">Subversive Cross Stitch<\/a> website would be where I would start if quilting ever got boring for me. It&#8217;s just hilarious. I&#8217;m thinking about ordering the &#8220;People Are Cattle&#8221; kit. Put away your frilly dress, get a unique piercing, and do a little sweet cross-stitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been rummaging around the Internet to see if there&#8217;s any possibly that there&#8217;s people out there who consider quilt making to be something other than an over-50 hobby, or for that fact, even a real art. As hard as it is to find some of these people, there are some really cool fiber <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/fiber_artists\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quilting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}