{"id":3167,"date":"2018-12-14T09:06:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T17:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2018-12-14T09:06:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T17:06:58","slug":"making-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/14\/making-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Connections&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3169\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3169\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3169\" src=\"https:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/whole-quilt.jpg?resize=720%2C591\" alt=\"whole quilt\" width=\"720\" height=\"591\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>I Spy<\/strong> quilt made using 20 original stencils and gel plate print technique<br \/><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Those of you who follow me know that I&#8217;ve got a million ideas and time for about 10 at a time. Some times my ideas are bigger than me and I don&#8217;t always reach out to make the connections I need to take an idea to another level. Because really there aren&#8217;t a whole lot of things we can do all by ourselves, and frankly, that&#8217;s a good thing. When we try to do things all on our own we don&#8217;t have the power of community, the power of family, the power of partnership &#8211; so things can only go so far. I&#8217;ve had this idea &#8211; well to be honest it&#8217;s not totally my idea &#8211; it&#8217;s an idea I&#8217;m borrowing and putting my own spin on.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an idea that is all about connecting &#8211; connecting on so many levels&#8230; let me try to explain.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3168\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3168\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3168\" src=\"https:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/close-up-multicards.jpg?resize=720%2C482\" alt=\"close up multicards\" width=\"720\" height=\"482\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Detail of quilt and matching cards<br \/><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>A few years ago I crossed the path of a woman making an &#8220;I Spy&#8221; quilt. Do you remember the game &#8220;I spy with my little eye&#8221;&#8230;.? It started out as a game to pass the time especially on road trips, clues are given and the guessers guess until they get it right. So an &#8220;I Spy&#8221; quilt has blocks with different animals or object in each printed square of store bought fabric <em>(Goggle it you&#8217;ll see some examples on Etsy)<\/em>. So the &#8220;I spy&#8221; game on a quilt is like the original but it&#8217;s a conversation piece for parent and child. It could also be a way to teach attachment parenting and build language skills <em>(you might have guessed in another life I was preschool teacher)<\/em>.\u00a0 So what if there could be a connection made between quilt guilds &#8211; who love to make quilts &#8211; and early childhood learning organizations for families in need?<\/p>\n\n<p>I liked the quilt idea but I wanted the images to be more cohesive and original. So I created 20 silhouette stencils for a farm and garden theme quilt. Each block is a gelli print on cotton then stitched together. I had multiple prints of each block and my husband made the connection that a second matching game could happen. When I showed a friend she thought perhaps the words could be in Spanish (or I guess no words just instructions in multiple languages&#8230;might be better). What if I made this into a kit for quilt groups and friends to get together and print and make the quilts to share in their community? Wouldn&#8217;t that be a wonderful connection? These are my ideas &#8211; a few of millions &#8211; I think to really make this idea go anywhere I need to connect with all of you &#8211; any ideas? Do you have any connections? I spy with my little eye&#8230;. connections happening, wheels turning,\u00a0 community in action&#8230;. let me know your thoughts.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Those of you who follow me know that I&#8217;ve got a million ideas and time for about 10 at a time. 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