Almost every time we get a new prompt, I have an immediate reaction to it. It is usually a form of word association. This is how it happened this time.   I google Cloth in Common on my phone. I find out that Martha Ressler has given us the prompt

DNA   I have always been fascinated by the ongoing discussion of nature vs nurture.   Basically the question is—are our identities formed by our genetics or by the circumstances of our lives?   Over time, scientists have concluded that BOTH genetics and circumstances shape us. Still, which is the stronger component?

IDENTITY   My life has been so busy that I have not had a lot of time to think about our current prompt, but I will sit still now for a few moments and think about what that word means to me.   Mom     Wife     Woman

I love this group and creating from prompts. I have never belonged to an art quilt group, and I have never created work in response to prompts. Each prompt has taken me to strange and new places with my work. Still, as much as these group means to me. I

Dis-unity was a difficult prompt for me to get my head around. I have written more about that on my personal blog.    I originally wanted to create a flag quilt because I thought it might be fun to revisit that idea and make another pieced US flag, but the

    In the space between these photos, I originally wrote what I hoped was a cross between a lyrical essay and a political rant ala Bill Maher style.     While the words I wrote were from the heart there was also a bit of hurt in them.  

According to Scientific America, “Wormholes are solutions to the Einstein field equations for gravity that act as “tunnels,” connecting points in space-time in such a way that the trip between the points through the wormhole could take much less time than the trip through normal space.”     I didn’t start out thinking

    I was scheduled to write a blog post for this group on December 25th. It didn’t happen. Why? Because I ran out of time.   I am always running out of time. What is up with that?    I rarely waste time. I can tell you what I

According to Wikipedia, “A jökulhlaup (Icelandic pronunciation:  [ˈjœːkʏl̥øip]) (literally “glacial run”) is a type of glacial outburst flood.It is an Icelandic term that has been adopted in glaciological terminology in many languages. It originally referred to the well-known subglacial outburst floods from Vatnajökull, Iceland, which are triggered by geothermal heating and occasionally by a volcanic subglacial eruption, but it is now

I love water as prompt. I have made several quilts in the past that refence water.     I don’t know what water I will actually make this quilt about, but I have been thinking about the McCarthy Creek. Our cabin in McCarthy, Alaska is just a short walk from McCarthy Creek. 

When I got the most recent prompt for Cloth in Common, I wasn’t quite sure what to do. I had already created three Color Grid quilts about night.   Night     Solstice     Winter Trance     Finally, I decided a chair quilt was in order. What would

When I learned the prompt for this round was road, I knew exactly what I wanted do. I wanted to piece the road that leads to here—the Wrangell St. Elias National Park where McCarthy, Alaska is located..     We have a cute little cabin here.   And I love