Please touch me
Isn’t it crazy that I work with textile because I love it’s tactile nature but don’t let other people touch my work? Hang my work on a wall and stick a ‘do not touch’ notice next to it. Sometimes quilt angels in white cotton gloves will lift a
Sounds of Norway
When I read the first topic: Sound, I thought of the sound waves. It is amazing to see the beautiful different sound
Rhythm of rain
When it starts to rain, there is the smell of soft soil and the sound of bumping into the ground.I think it is like a peaceful lullaby if the sound of falling the rain at night sounds quietly. And when I feel depressed or sad, it feels like blues.
Wind Bell Sound
Karol gave us a very interesting challenge. I kept thinking and thinking. Then, a wind bell rang under the eaves outside of my house. In Japan,we often hang a glass wind bell during the hot and humid summer season. We feel cool with the
City Sounds
I returned from my magical summer place with a heart full of the sights of the Green Mountains and the gentle sounds of the country. I had been lulled to sleep night after night with the windows open and a cool breeze on my face. I found peace in
Sound Waves
As soon as the prompt of Sound was announced my mind went to sound waves. I love the repeat patterns and lines created by the variations and wanted to replicate them in fabric. My work is a graphic representation of multiple waves all overlapping and probably
The song of a summer morning
It has been a hot summer and we don’t have air conditioning, so we open our windows as wide as possible at night to catch a cool breeze if we can. The first sound I hear early in the morning is the sh-sh-sh of the sprinklers coming to life in
Visible Speech
What must it be like not to be able to hear any sounds, to be deaf? You can still make sounds with your speech apparatus, but you can’t hear yourself. This piece is a homage to Alexander Melville Bell’s phonetic alphabet that he devised in 1867 to help deaf
Cacophony (The Dancing Caterpillar)
Cacophony – defined as a harsh discordant mixture of sounds. Synonyms: din, racket, noise, discord, dissonance, discordance, caterwauling, raucousness, screeching, jarring, stridency, grating, rasping. How do words sound? How do they make you feel? Do we each respond to individual words in the same way? For me
Sounds of Norway
Hi, I am Synnøve from Norway, and I am very happy to be part of this fine group of quilters. When I read the first topic: Sound, I thought of the sound waves, and went to my old Physics Book Sound waves from my physics book from 1964.
Making the sound connection
First off—Hi! I’m Terry and I’m so happy to be here, in great company and working on an intriguing challenge. It’s my first post on the blog and I”m getting to know my fellow artists of Cloth in Common! Visualizing sound. So we begin with our first challenge. Hmmm. This