Meditation and Praise
We are focusing on communities this round. Our current theme is ‘International’. In January of 2018, I was fortunate to travel to Japan and spend two weeks there touring and participating in several fiber related workshops along the way. One of the museums we visited was the Amuse museum, which
Reflections in the Koi Pond
I looked through my photographs for images relating to reflection. Because I live in Florida, with water all around, I had plenty of inspiring images. The beach, the lake nearby, ponds near the bike trail, all provide beautiful scenes of reflections on water. I settled on
Reflecting on the past, ahead of time
Foreseeing writing this post about the prompt ‘Reflection’, I took some photos while floating and reflecting in our swimming pool last week. Friedrich Nietzsche once said that, “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” But as hot as it’s been in Florida recently, I prefer to get
Young Self
I made two quilts for this prompt. The first one sort of began back in the spring, when I took a class from Paula Kovarik about machine quilting on a domestic sewing machine. Here is a picture of me showing some of my stitched assignments from that class. One assignment
Here We Go – Round Two!!
Our general theme for all of the upcoming prompts for the next two years – Round Two – is COMMUNITY. One of the definitions of ‘community’ that I found was: society – a group of people who have interests in common. We members of Cloth in Common are
Into Your Soul
This prompt made me think of Halloween masks. I used to love to dress up in costumes. I remember a few of my favorite homemade costumes from when I was small. My sister and I, a year apart, once dressed as Siamese twins. We each wore half of
Cloth in Common – Looking back, and looking forward!
Our small international group of eleven artists began working together in the summer of 2017. Every two months, we received a prompt from one of our members, to which we responded in thoughts, images and fibers. We agreed on an overall theme of Unusual Prompts, and each of us
Masks are FUN!
I like masks! They remind me of Halloween. Which takes me back to my childhood. What fun to dress up as some character and knock on doors to receive treats!!! My mother made some of our costumes, as I then did for my children. At some point, I made these
NONSENSE
Our theme this time is DISUNITY. I decided to merge several ‘orphan’ blocks from my years of teaching traditional piecing classes. The colors clashed. The patterns were varied – bowtie, Christmas, floral, repro, modern. I wanted to make a statement about accepting diversity. Each section is quilted with
Time Traveling
Time Travel Sitting down with a cup of hot Lemon Zinger tea to write this. I love to read. As a child, I spent many happy hours browsing through the public library in the summertime. I recently had to sit for a couple of hours at an urgent
Time Passages
I looked up some quotes about time. A few resonated with my thoughts about the subject. “How did it get so late so soon?” ― Dr. Seuss We never seem to have enough of it. It flies by so quickly. Maybe we have plenty of time, but too much
Whoosh!
I am so impressed with the various approaches of each artist in Cloth in Common. Seems we all have major concerns about water issues. During the time I was working on my quilt, Hurricane Michael was threatening and then came crashing into the panhandle area of Florida, causing death