Blue space!
Community Green spaces Karol Kusmaul I recently purchased an art quilt from Pamela Allen of Canada. Its title is ‘Five Sheep and Three Big Fish’. She explained, “As I was raised a poor inner city kid, I always wanted to be in the country! I guess that’s why I seem
Welcome!!
To our dear followers: The members of Cloth in Common are delighted to welcome you to our brand new website: https://clothincommon.com/ We are pleased with the new features including: giving you the option to leave us comments about our work and our blog posts, as well as easier access to
Attitude Adjustment
Pandemic This Coronavirus has made us all sick in one way or another. We share it worldwide. Though we are all in isolation, we share anxiety, fear, and stress about disrupted education, financial issues, job loss, illness and death. We therefore need desperately to hang on to hope, faith, and
Art Buddies
March 29, 2020 |Karol Kusmaul For years now, I have attended a spring fiber artist retreat in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Sometimes for a week, sometimes for 11 days, sometimes with a class or two, sometimes just to retreat and work on projects. The venue is unbelievably perfect. Lots of
Karol Kusmaul
Karol Kusmaul Inverness, Florida, USA I am fascinated by human faces and figures. Many of my quilts tell personal stories of my family and experiences. A great day for me is one in which I can play with my collection of thrift store shirts, skirts, pants and dresses, cutting the
Emerge
I love to take my camera on short walkabouts around our property. We are in a woodsy area, and near a large pasture where there are horses, cows, donkeys and sometimes goats. We also have many sandhill cranes strutting about. I’ve gathered wonderful images of plants, trees, weeds and
Walkabout
I have to say I am SO impressed and pleased with the work that is being created by Cloth in Common members. Such variety and thoughtful responses to each prompt! The last group of work – International community – was especially excellent. Be sure to visit our website https://www.clothincommon.com/ to
Meditation and Praise
We are focusing on communities this round. Our current theme is ‘International’. In January of 2018, I was fortunate to travel to Japan and spend two weeks there touring and participating in several fiber related workshops along the way. One of the museums we visited was the Amuse museum, which
Reflections in the Koi Pond
I looked through my photographs for images relating to reflection. Because I live in Florida, with water all around, I had plenty of inspiring images. The beach, the lake nearby, ponds near the bike trail, all provide beautiful scenes of reflections on water. I settled on
Reflecting on the past, ahead of time
Foreseeing writing this post about the prompt ‘Reflection’, I took some photos while floating and reflecting in our swimming pool last week. Friedrich Nietzsche once said that, “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” But as hot as it’s been in Florida recently, I prefer to get
Young Self
I made two quilts for this prompt. The first one sort of began back in the spring, when I took a class from Paula Kovarik about machine quilting on a domestic sewing machine. Here is a picture of me showing some of my stitched assignments from that class. One assignment