Elizabeth's World
Although I live in the peaceful countryside, my ears are assaulted day and night by the sound of my mother-in-law’s TV. She is a sweet soul who lives with us, and the TV keeps her company, though she pays scant attention to it. Instead she is absorbed in her
True Confessions: Cacophony/Euphony
True Confessions: Cacophony/Euphony 40″ x 30″ Fabric Scraps purchased from the Stitchin’ Post in Sisters, Oregon Improvisionally Cut and Pieced, Machine Quilted, Faced I have a hard time with quilting challenges, prompts, and assignments. I see so many possibilities which makes it very hard to choose. I start and
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 Silence (guest artist)
A fiber friend of mine has been following our blog and has made a quilt based on our first prompt about sound. Her quilt is titled Sounds of Silence, and I’ll leave it to you to interpret what may be happening. This quilt is by Marianne Williamson.