When the shame prompt was announced, I couldn’t get the disco beat of Shirley & Co.’s “Shame, Shame, Shame” out of my head. The song was written by Sylvia Robinson and sung by blues vocalist Shirley Goodman paired with singer Jesus Alvarez. Their recording became an international disco hit in

Susan J Lapham, Vienna, Virginia USA Two years after my father died, my mother moved to Vienna, Virginia with her 82 year old mother. A year later my husband and I bought the house behind my mother and moved there with our three young children. Five years later my third

Vienna, Virginia USA My grandmother taught me to sew on an old Kenmore when she came to live with us in Carthage. I was 10 and soon was not only sewing clothes but creating all sorts of projects. On daily walks though the old cities of Rabat, Carthage, Amman and

Cloth in Common is pleased to introduce a new playmate – artist Susan Lapham, of Vienna, VA.  Susan has been a longtime fan of Cloth in Common, and is now our newest member!  Susan shares one of her quilts, Playland #3, which won the “Award of Excellence” in Form, Not