My grandmother had a garden in the yard and a way with things that grow. Vegetables – everything on the recommended Victory Garden list, plus grape vines, fruit trees and flowers. Tomatoes were her favorite. Mortgage Lifter, beefsteak, green and plum. She had a small orchard in her front and

A beloved grandmother tried to teach me the concept of "A place for everything," but I haven't learned very well.

As I ponder the prompt ‘heritage’ and how it relates to New Zealand my initial thoughts were about the lost heritage in Christchurch post the 2010/2011 earthquakes when most of our city was destroyed and replaced by new. The interesting thing is that children of today will only ever know

A lot of us seem to go back to our family heritage for this prompt, and I’m thinking in the same direction. I was back in Europe for a family visit last month, and as usual, I visited my grandparent’s farm which is just a few steps away from the

I’m rolling the idea of Heritage around in my brain.  Heritage as it relates to Structure, our overall theme of these two years of quiltmaking for Cloth in Common.  One of the meanings I found in the Merriam-Webster dictionary online is “something transmitted by or acquired from a predecessor”.  This

My grandmother was a generation who experienced so difficult and painful times such as the Japanese Colonial Period and the Korean war, which were the dark ages of Korea.At that time, it was not easy for women to learn letters properly. Most of them had to do housework, got married

So many of our artist statements begin with heartfelt stories of our grandmothers, mothers, aunts or neighbors who taught us to sew. And many of us offer lectures that begin with our family heritage connected with our sewing journey. Our grandmothers grew up during the depression and sewed with bits

When Bethany Garner gave us the current prompt, she titled her post “HERITAGE… bring ART into the family structure.” Structure is the overarching theme of this third round of Cloth in Common prompts. So far, we’ve worked on Faces, Lost Worlds, Anatomy, Buildings, Light, Cells, and Flexible. If you click

Reaching a milestone in my adult life and with a focus on my art, I am finally moving toward the use of my skills as a textile artist to study and celebrate the history of my heritage. Learning, sharing, and celebrating… perhaps to leave a touch of a legacy for