November Rain in the Wetlands
My friend and I walk in the morning in the wetlands. It is a world of water and the life that is drawn to the wetland. The beavers have returned and flooded our trails and changed the landscape, but we are undeterred and skirt the edges of new water and
Whoosh!
I am so impressed with the various approaches of each artist in Cloth in Common. Seems we all have major concerns about water issues. During the time I was working on my quilt, Hurricane Michael was threatening and then came crashing into the panhandle area of Florida, causing death
The Shape Of Water
Do you think the water has a shape? Sea, River, Waterfall, Waves? If we want to touch it. It will get out of between our fingers. The water doesn’t change at all, and just let the moment see through it. I focused in the facetted beauty of
The River Runs Dry
My corner of the world received a record amount of rainfall this year. While we were inconvenienced by cancelled events and some flooding, I was more pained by the draught and wildfires in other areas of the globe. I paid attention when the Elbe River in
Melting down
Since I live in the Netherlands, which partly lays below sea level, water always plays an important role in this country. After a winter with a lot of rain and flooding riviers, a very dry summer followed. The wetlands near my house turned into meadows. With grazing cows at the bottom of
Breaking the Drought
I live in Australia which is an extremely dry continent. Most of the population lives around the edges as the centre is not really fit for human habitation. However we still need to eat and the farmers are constantly battling the elements of droughts and floods. We are currently undergoing one
Swim trunks, vases, and bubbles
Regarding water themed quilts: I live in Florida, so I have done a quite a few quilts related to water. One of them started with a pair of interesting men’s swim trunks I found at a thrift store. . . I then selected fabrics that coordinated with
How much water?
I have been doing a lot of dyeing recently and that got me thinking about how much water I use to colour my cloth. Although I’m not on a water meter so don’t pay per litre I do try to ‘do my bit’ when I dye and print but
10,000 Lakes
I have to say when I think of the word water the first thing that pops into my head is Michigan lakes. To those of you from other countries, Michigan is in the Midwestern section of the US and has an upper and lower peninsula. The lower peninsula
The rain has started
I live in a suburb of Portland, Oregon in the US Pacific Northwest and when I tell people, who have never been here that, they usually say, “oh–doesn’t it rain there all the time?” We nod and shake our heads sadly and agree that, yes, it rains here all the