by Martha Ressler When I heard the prompt “Isolation” what first came to mind was some of the photographs of Jay Ressler, my husband. I thought about using one of those and playing with it. What also came to mind was ways of beating back isolation. I am fascinated by

Karol Kusmaul Thursdays are my favorite days.  My husband goes golfing and I get to do whatever I want (or need) to do, without any interruptions except for the phone.  No offense to my dear husband, but when he’s around, I get interrupted a LOT.  I am in charge of

Isolation is our current prompt. I’m sure with the outbreak of Novel Coronavirus 2, isolation has been on many of your minds. Experiencing and thinking about it is one thing, but how was I going to express isolation in a quilt? First I googled the definition. Grrr.  I just hate

October 13.2020 Mikiko Takase Wabi and Sabi are words to describe a Japanese aesthetic sensibility that shows “beauty within simplicity and imperfection”. Wabi-Sabi influences all Japanese culture such as paintings, buildings, gardens and tea ceremony. For example, we may deliberately remove some constituents from a completed work to increase the

An attempt to look at “isolation” from a different perspective… If an original population is separated into two sub-populations through geographical isolation so that no more gene flow can take place, we speak of allopatric speciation. The gene pools of the two subpopulations now develop differently, since different environmental factors

Last year when I was invited to join this wonderful group I immediately thought of “Isolation” as my prompt and wrote it down then! THat was May 2019 so little did I realise how relevant it would be today! However I am intrigued by the different avenues that can be