Like many others in the group, when I heard that our prompt would be “neighborhood,” I immediately thought back to when I was a kid. I moved around a lot, but always lived in suburbia. Kids played outside a lot. We rode bikes, built forts, and went from one yard

 Here’s my completed quilt for our Ecosystem prompt: California Buckeye. It’s one of the native plants around my house that has evolved perfectly for its ecosystem. If you want to read more about Aesculus californica, see my post here. Like my previous quilts, I created the image in Photoshop using

  The overarching theme in our two-year project is Community.  So far we’ve created quilts from the prompts Identity, Reflection and International.  Regina Marzlin gave us the fourth prompt—Ecosystems.  But then she goes on to explain:   For our next challenge I would like you to think about biological communities,

  Okay, the title is Indigo. Why, you ask? When I received the prompt International. A whole bunch of things went through my mind. Then I thought of indigo. Indigo dye was used all over the world. That’s international. I also have some indigo fabric pieces I bought in Africa years

    I am basing my Cloth in Common challenges on my recent trip to Canada and the USA in May – June this year. My first challenge was a struggle but as soon as I changed tack and decided to use my trip as the base I have found

    This is Deb Cashatt, back with my quilt based on the prompt “Reflection.” To me the abstract looked like a rainy night in an almost empty city. My mind saw a figure amid neon lights reflecting on wet pavement and windows.  So I decided the quilting should make

  It’s my turn to blog about the reflection prompt.  The last prompt was identity, and I created a self-portrait. I did a lot of reflecting when I created that piece.  If I were back in college, I would have reworked the project for this class.  But that’s not the

    I have been wanting to create a new self-portrait for several years, so when I found out the prompt was Identity, I knew exactly where to start.  So who am I?  Artistically, I have been part of the creative duo known as Pixeladies for 16 years. But I’m