A few lines
Karol Kusmaul It’s my turn to write a few lines about our current theme ‘Lines’. We’ll be revealing our completed art pieces in just a few days, so I need to keep mine a surprise. I thought I would talk about what I’ve been doing quilt wise recently, since it
Lines and Welcomes
Karol Kusmaul I’m writing a few lines today about our group Cloth in Common and our current theme, Lines. This theme is wide open and there are a gazillion ways we could interpret it. I started by making a very long strip of bias binding so I could let it
Climate and Other Changes
Karol Kusmaul Our current theme is climate change. I confess to not knowing enough about the topic. Science has never been my forte. So I consider my own experience living in Florida, USA for the past 48 years, and focus on the weather changes I have observed. It is hot
I LIKE PIE
Karol Kusmaul I don’t specifically remember my grandmother or my mom teaching me how to bake pies, but I suppose I learned just by watching. Each of them probably made thousands of pies through the years. Whenever I make a pie, I’m transported back to their kitchens in my memory
Family Recipes Passed Down
I’m rolling the idea of Heritage around in my brain. Heritage as it relates to Structure, our overall theme of these two years of quiltmaking for Cloth in Common. One of the meanings I found in the Merriam-Webster dictionary online is “something transmitted by or acquired from a predecessor”. This
POTENTIAL
Karol Kusmaul The prompt was Flexible Structure. I decided I wanted to work with some of my hand dyed fabrics, so I pulled out several groupings. Here are some pieces I considered stitching together as a background on which to ‘build’ a flexible structure. I searched through several other ice-dyed
Pieces of Me
Karol Kusmaul Cell Structures Though there are many types of cells in our great world, I decided on human cells, and made a portrait. In trying to follow the theme and the idea that we are made up of billions of cells, I envisioned a face with lots of small
Theme Recap
I thought it would be a good time for a recap of what this group is about. We take turns proposing a theme for each of our quilts. We have overall themes for each approximately two year round of work. Beginning in 2017, all of our themes were UNUSUAL. If
Patience
Karol Kusmaul I am writing this on a foggy overcast morning in Florida (the Sunshine state). It’s amazing the effect that sunlight can have on our dispositions and energy. Fortunately, I can at least write about light with this portrait project. We like to go to an outdoor seafood restaurant
Structure and Light
Karol Kusmaul Considering Light and Structure this time, I thought I would look through my past work that is related to these themes. I’ve already decided the focus of my piece, which will be revealed at the end of March, but I’ll save that as a surprise until then. My
Polka Dot Sky Day
Karol Kusmaul My husband and I went on a spur of the moment week long getaway to Illinois in October of 2021. We both are originally from there and still have family who live there. It always feels great to revisit our hometowns and remember bits of our past. My