Deb’s Connections
Finally, I think I’m finished with my last quilt for Cloth in Common. The top was completed about a month ago, but then I started traveling. I went to the wonderful SAQA conference in Toronto, came home all energized to start quilting and my sewing machine bobbin case broke (not
Deb’s Connections
Connections. What a wonderful prompt. It’s a wonderful way to end my 4-year run with the Cloth in Common group. I’ve loved being part of the group, but it takes time to make a quilt, and I want to use some of that time I’ve been spending making quilts for
Wall of Polish
Since anything I’ve made this year could fall under the prompt “Pattern,” it was hard to narrow down my subject. Every so often I go have a pedicure. I almost never have a manicure because my hands are tools, and I’m pretty hard on them. A manicure doesn’t usually last
The Greek Key Pattern
This is probably the easiest prompt for me to work with. All of my pieces for this round start with blocks or units and I repeat those units in the pieces I create; every piece I’ve created would fit this theme. One of my favorite patterns is the Greek key,
Climate Change
It’s all around us. Drought. Floods. Hotter. Colder. It affects people, but it also affects trees, and trees make a difference. From the National Wildlife Federation’s web page: Trees are a truly beautiful part of the natural environment, but they are also amazingly efficient machines—constantly working to make Earth a
Structures for Climate Change
The climate change prompt was a hard one for me. I finally settled on depicting trees and Lewis structures. Lewis structures are diagrams that show the bonding between atoms of a molecule, as well as the lone pairs of electrons that may exist in the molecule. The Lewis structure was
Kailasa Temple
For the Heritage prompt, Deb chose to depict the Kailasa Temple, one of the 34 temples in the Ellora Cave complex.
Deb’s Idea for Heritage
When Bethany Garner gave us the current prompt, she titled her post “HERITAGE… bring ART into the family structure.” Structure is the overarching theme of this third round of Cloth in Common prompts. So far, we’ve worked on Faces, Lost Worlds, Anatomy, Buildings, Light, Cells, and Flexible. If you click
Flexible Arrangement
There’s a saying when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. What it really means is be flexible. When I proposed the prompt, “flexible,” I didn’t realize how flexible I would need to be. Life can be a literal pain in the neck sometimes. And when that pain radiates down to
Folsom Prison Blues
When we received the prompt, “cell” back in May, I knew immediately what I was going to do–something with prison or jail cells. Since the prompt came from our German member, Dörte-Ina Liebing, I knew it would fit. The German word for cell, Zelle, can mean prison cell, too The