An observer of our blog decided to play along with us and has completed a small quilt about sound!  We are delighted to have others participate in our prompts.  The artist’s name is Denise Giardullo, and here is her piece and her artist statement about it:     “The prompt,

When I first read Karol’s prompt, images of sound waves came to mind right away. With a physicist husband and a very musical family this would have been my first choice for visualizing sound. But then I visited the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada,

Karol concludes her prompt: “Your work could show loud, amplified sound like construction or thunder.  Or soft and faint sound, like a whisper.  How will you represent sound visually?” Like Lisa, I went with the first thing that came to mind. Although I live in the peaceful countryside, my ears

When I first read our prompt my immediate reaction was Sound Waves. I usually go with the first thought and as I love pattern and repetition I did an image search on them. Image searches are a wonderful way to get an instant library of images to get your mind

It is August 1 in Japan, Korea, Australia, and Norway, so I am posting this now, even though where I am, it is still July.     Cloth in Common    Round one – Unusual inspirations    Prompt one Karol Kusmaul “What did you say?”     I knew something was seriously

  Three days until our first prompt.  This is a snapshot of a photo I saw last spring in the home of Pierre du Pont at Longwood Gardens near Philadelphia.  I thought it fit our title, Cloth in Common, very nicely. If you are interested in meeting our group, and

Be still, my heart!!!!!  Our website is growing, our membership represents five states and seven countries!!!!!  We have decided on sizes for our work and an overall theme of Unusual Inspirations for our first round (22 months) of fiber art.  We have calendars and assignments, and a start date of

By way of introducing myself, I will share a recent experience.   I have many painter friends, as I am active in the local art world as well as the community of Art Quilters.  So when Plein Air West Reading (Pennsylvania) loosened its rules this year, I decided to take

Launching a brand new international group of fiber artists – this is exhilarating!!! We are anxious to meet you and one another, and to begin creating fiber art by presenting thoughtful prompts every other month.  We have each committed to the first ’round’ of twenty two months beginning August 1