Neighborhood?
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
The winner takes it all
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
No fences
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
My new neighborhood is not only also my old neighborhood
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: Round One—the Book is Now Available!
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
Neigbourhood bonds together
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,
Neighbors at the Well
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,
Other places, other neighborhoods
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
Neighborhood
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
Organic relationship
At this prompt “Ecosystem”, the bushfire of Australia that lasted over the last 5 months came to mind. Many media continue to report on the bushfire in Australia. It is so sad and unfortunate. I think this threatening ” Nature disaster” is probably a warning of “climate change” and is
Boreal Climates
Our current prompt is Eco-Systems. I knew immediately that I wanted my response to be about color in the natural landscape of Alaska, where I live. In the winter, if we are lucky, we are covered in snow. Our natural world is white. As we
Life Imitating Nature
Working with the theme of Ecosystems for our current prompt makes me think of how colonies of insects and animals work together for a common goal. This goal is just to survive but shows there is power in numbers. How clever are these termite ants to build this? For my