Color in the Kitchen
This is NOT my kitchen. I know it is beautiful and it is very modern and quite fashionable right now, but it just could never be my kitchen. I need color–fashion be damned! THIS is my kitchen. I know–you thought it was a Mexican restaurant, but it is, indeed,
"And the sun poured in like butterscotch…"
I am an unabashed fan of Joni Mitchell. I have been since the first time I heard her, many, many (could it be 50?) years ago. Her melodies are beautiful, her voice and delivery are beautiful, but her words, her lyrics, are poetry. For me, hers is the kind of poetry
If I were a poet in cloth…
This is as far as I have gotten on my next challenge piece. When I start a new project, once I have an idea of what I want to do I start shopping in my stash for fabrics. I pull out everything that might work, then stack them all
Born to cloth
At the top of my late friend, Christine Thresh’s blog were these words: “We are born to cloth. It is the second thing we touch after our mother.” I don’t know if those were Christine’s words or if she was quoting, but they always
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
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