Celebrate!
Reason to Celebrate? My wife and I recently returned from a trip to Egypt and Dubai. I was so excited about visiting the New Egyptian Museum! I had planned to spend one entire day there. However……the day we had scheduled to go, a very important diplomat was visiting the museum……so…..we
Celebration 5-5
What Shall I celebrate? by Martha Ressler Celebration. On a personal level I’m celebrating our decision to upgrade our beloved backyard fire pit area, including pavers and a new firepit that eats it’s own smoke!!Plus, the fact that (surely!?) spring is coming before too long and this long, cold winter
Keeping it simple
Last July we celebrated our 40th anniversary. It was a simple yet wonderful evening. Our two boys and their families came over for dinner and surprised us with 40 balloons! Given the grandies are only 5, 3 and 14 months at the time we had lots of fun playing with
String Ribbon”Mizuhiki”
During celebrations, there is a custom in Japan to wrap cash. At that time, a decorative string called “Mizuhiki” is tied to the envelope of Japanese paper. It is a congratulatory meaning of “connecting people” and a desire to continue a good relationship. When my daughter got engaged, her fiance’s
Artist’s Defeat
Coming to the last page of the calendar of 2025 meant for me, traveling to our family in Australia. At the same time I knew, this will keep me away from the sewing machine. Still, my plan was that I’ll use my precious fabrics from a screen-printing workshop for this
5-5 Celebration
Good day to all my Cloth in Common colleagues, participants and subscribers. Welcome to 2026 and I hope we all look forward to a fresh new year and the unknown possibilities it may bring. Whilst I am not so naive as to expect it will all be world peace, an
A Dream in Blue
One of my long-held dreams was to travel with my husband to see my work exhibited in an overseas quilt exhibition – to experience the exhibition together and turn it into a journey. That dream came true last year, and this piece was created to commemorate that joyful experience. The
New Beginnings
I’ve taken to looking at some of my older quilts and wondering how I could reimagine them, cut them up or change them in some way. With the Dare to Dream prompt I was thinking of some recent milestones in our city of Christchurch, New Zealand, 15 years on from
The Dreamers
Crows seek connection, recognize, tolerate and sometimes enjoy humans. In my dream I am offering Dennis a peanut (Dennis is the most endearing hopping crow, my favorite) Shhhh…Don’t tell the others. Perhaps Dennis Hopper is also dreaming of this moment of trust and mutual regard. There is progress towards fulfilling
Migraine Tinsel
I have always felt that dreaming is a different state of being, one we cannot control, where our body and mind tell us the story, rather than our conscious mind stating the facts to our conscious self. For that reason, I’m interested in the circumstances that promote dreams for me.
I want to be a good perfomer
Have you ever dreamed that you were flying comfortably in the sky and suddenly fell from it? I wake up in such horror. When trying to accomplish something in real life, it is easy to hesitate when thinking about the timing, my abilities, people’s reactions, and the cost. Life is