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

https://www.welt.de/newsticker/news1/article175885722/Leute-Schwedische-Kultband-Abba-fuer-zwei-Songs-wiedervereint.html Scientists at the IST Austria have found that the fastest growing cell in the eggs of zebra fish inhibits its neighbors using mechanical signals. “The winner takes it all, the loser’s standing small” – this quote from the famous song by the Swedish pop group ABBA also applies to

I live in a small town of 5000 people, so it feels like the whole town is my neighbourhood. My direct surroundings consist of detached family homes. The lot sizes are generous with green spaces between houses and lots of nice gardens, trees, and small unkempt wilderness areas. What I

Due to a lot of circumstances in my life I had to move to a new home. The new home is about 750 meter from my old home. So I stil live in the same neighborhood. The part of town I live in is quit new. When I moved to

Cloth in Common founder Karol Kusmaul has created a book for purchase that shares the group’s journey through the first round of prompts. You can purchase your copy here. The book’s introduction traces the group’s origin story, “By August of 2017, eleven artists had agreed to join Cloth in Common.  A

Its amazing how a neighbourhood can come together to create something special. Last year I had the pleasure of being invited to Ailsa Craig, Ontario, Canada along with  other New Zealanders. We brought an amazing quilt exhibition and taught classes and best of all interacted all week with locals, ex-pat kiwis,

In my Grandmother’s Day Japanese houses were small, very close together and had no water supply. Each neighborhood shared a well. Women gathered at the Well to do laundry and prepare meals. They exchanged information, talked about family, discussed festivals and passed along rumors and gossip. Wells are gone now,

When I saw that our new prompt was “neighborhood” the first thing I thought of was the neighborhood where I grew up in Idaho, USA. It was truly the epitome of the 1950s television sitcom neighborhood, except that the houses were smaller, post-war bungalows that all looked the same. It

  I looked at the prompt  of Eco-systems and initially struggled for any idea before remembering to flick through my photos again from my Canada-USA trip in 2019 and sure enough there was the idea. We went to Niagara Falls on the Canadian side. Fortunately had a car so that we

On the earth we live in, the elements that make up the ecosystems are closely connected to each other. Human is also part of the ecosystem. Since the Industrial Revolution, the ecosystem has been increasingly destroyed by human so far. One part of the result is a disaster caused by

When we first began Round Two with the general theme of community, neighborhood was the word that first popped into my mind. I thought for sure, this would be the first and most obvious prompt, but there were no takers. And now, it is all mine. So our fourth prompt

  One of the MANY, MANY wonderful things about being a member of Cloth in Common is the ongoing learning that we are all experience.   We learn from each other, the prompts, and the processes of making. It is a joy.   I have lived in Alaska since 1996.