We are focusing on communities this round. Our current theme is ‘International’. In January of 2018, I was fortunate to travel to Japan and spend two weeks there touring and participating in several fiber related workshops along the way.  One of the museums we visited was the Amuse museum, which

    I am basing my Cloth in Common challenges on my recent trip to Canada and the USA in May – June this year. My first challenge was a struggle but as soon as I changed tack and decided to use my trip as the base I have found

    “The Olympics are Coming, The Olympics are Coming.”    Japan is excited to welcome the Olympics to Tokyo. People are quickly studying English to welcome   everyone to the Olympics.    Japan wants to be an International nation, but the truth is that most people are poor English   speakers.

  In 1993 we moved to Portland, Oregon. I left behind my business, my friends, all my connections. In Portland it was dark, it was raining constantly and I got very sick–complications from a ruptured appendix. It was a very low point and aside from my immediate family, I was

Members of our ” Cloth in common” are international. There are USA, South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and Netherlands.  I think this could be possible beause there were SAQA, Internet, e-mail, translation tool, etc. If I had not been a member of the international group called “SAQA”,  Kalol

Almost every time we get a new prompt, I have an immediate reaction to it. It is usually a form of word association. This is how it happened this time.   I google Cloth in Common on my phone. I find out that Martha Ressler has given us the prompt

  Our new CLOTH IN COMMON prompt of INTERNATIONAL really appealed to me. I travel a lot – top level frequent flyer category lots. Glamorous? Fun? Exciting? Well maybe sometimes.   Most of my time travelling is dragging myself through enormous airports. Packing bags to fit within weight limits and

As I head off to China for a visit, I am reminded that one sense of community is “International.” Here is what the Dictionary says: adjective adjective: international existing, occurring, or carried on between two or more nations. “international trade” synonyms: global, worldwide, intercontinental; More antonyms: national, local agreed on by all or many nations.