kitchen is my wonderland
Kitchen Inspiration Thank you Regina! Kitchen is very comfortable place for me. I like spending there a long time, cooking over making quilts. It brings some ideas for my arts. I put a lot of stuff on the fridge door with the magnets. Picture cards, recipes and schedule
Kitchen Inspiration
If I’m not in my studio at home I can probably be found in the kitchen. Cooking and baking for my family, having a cup of tea or a cuddle with the dog, answering the phone or working on my computer – it all happens there. This room is
Lyrically Speaking—Let’s DANCE!
Music and lyrics are often a source of inspiration for my work. I love the idea of taking common elements of music— rhythm, pattern, and repetition—and recreating them in cloth. While, there is no visual evidence of lyrics in my work, I often name my quilts after the titles
Lyrics – friend or foe
When the Lyrically Speaking prompt was announced by Martha Ressler, two things immediately came to mind. Firstly the issue of using lyrics in artwork. A few years ago I made a quilt for the ‘Beneath the Southern Sky’ Exhibition curated by Brenda Gael Smith in which I used some lyrics
Song Lyrics to inspire art
I am a hummer. I often have songs playing over and over in my head. I began brainstorming about lyrics that might inspire a new art piece. I tried to remember songs from my childhood. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. Pop Goes the Weasel, but who wants to make a
Where to start?
As soon as I read the prompt I knew what I wanted to do. I was going to print lyrics from songs that mean something to me onto paper, tear and collage then stitch onto a fabric base. But what songs, what lyrics? I keep my 300+ CD’s in
Concert Groupie
Song lyrics which floated down from the ceiling after Adele concert I am having a hard time narrowing down my choices for this challenge. Choosing specific lyrics to one song seems like I am being a traitor to all the
Interesting Israel
Martha memorized the Broadway hits of her generation… I didn’t read further, I went to the library to borrow the musicals I could find, and I loved to watch and listen. It didn’t take me long to decide on Jesus Christ Superstar, since I came home from Israel 20. November
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
In the moon light
In Japan during the Heian Period about 800 years ago, people wrote short lyrical poems of love. A round moon, a half moon and even a crescent moon, all filled with mystery ,inspired much poetry. For example ,there were 100 poems made by one hundred people. The soft moonlight
Lyrically Speaking
When I drive I usually listen to recorded books. (Out in the country where I live radio signals are an uncertainty.) But when I take walks I like to listen to music. Lyrics attract me. I memorized the Broadway hits of my generation like Sound of Music and South
Touch of wind or water
I thought about “Touch” that Lisa proposed the second challenge. What I thought at that time was wind and water. There are many kind of wind, but I like the soft and a little cool winds. When it touches my skin, it does let me up get out of