GATHERING STORM II
Our worldwide climate IS changing. Higher temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, extreme weather events, storms, and rising sea levels are just some of the changes already affecting many aspects of our lives. We take on what is left of hurricanes and are fast losing land, forests, too many homes, and our
Leave No Trace
The November prompt is Climate Change and my quilt is about Earth Day. The first Earth Day was in 1970 organized by Senator Gaylord Nelson, Congressman Pete McCloskey and activist Denis Hayes. Twenty million Americans participated in events that highlighted concern about the deteriorating environment. Earth Day led to the
Coral Bleaching
Global warming is spreading not only to the land where we live, but also to the world of the sea. There are beautiful coral reefs in the tropical sea. Did you know that they are now gradually turning into skeletons and dying out? All of are due to environmental stress
My grandmother
While working on this piece, I was able to think again about the life of my grandmother who passed away. I don”t know the details, but I think her life as a woman was much harder, more sacrificed and discriminated against. However, she didn’t surrender to it and continued to
Oma’s Farm – finished!
As promised, here is my finished piece for our prompt “Heritage”. To read the full story about my grandmother’s farm and the making of this quilt see the previous blogpost. I’m glad I didn’t rush the quilting part as I think it adds a lot to this piece. The detail
disappearing – staying
(linen roasted, old books shredded and snippets sew together, free motion machine embroidery, photo transfer) Paul Cézanne once said: “You have to hurry if you want to see something, everything disappears…” He is addressing impermanence – much, almost everything, is impermanent. Our life is fleeting. But what remains is the
Layers
When looking at heritage as a prompt there were several options for me to consider from family, history, lineage to the loss of our historical buildings through our earthquakes. However as I looked at each it came to me that everything has layers of history past, present and future. Looking
STITCH – A Lifetime Ago
Six sisters, all quilters, and one small boy. My grandmother, a Kentucky farm wife, a master Kentucky quiltmaker, was one of the six and determined to teach the smallest quilter – her son, my Uncle Rufus who was born in 2018 with Down’s Syndrome never went to school. The family
Kailasa Temple
For the Heritage prompt, Deb chose to depict the Kailasa Temple, one of the 34 temples in the Ellora Cave complex.
Oma’s Farm
When we got the prompt “Heritage” I immediately thought about my Grandmother’s farm in Germany. This is where I grew up, in the Rhineland, a few kilometres from the border with the Netherlands. I have a lot of vivid memories about this place, about the farm as a building and
Rietveld Schröder House
During this prompt about heritage, I paid attention to Gerrit Rietveld. He lived from 1888 to 1964 and was an architect, furniture designer and graphic designer. In 1919 he designed the red/blue chair, a symbol of “De Stijl”. “De Stijl” is an art movement, named after the magazine of the
Atomic Bomb Dome In Hiroshima
The war my parents experienced was not so long ago. My father went across Asia as a soldier, and I heard my mother practiced with bamboo spear for the final battle. Until the atomic bomb was dropped, the Japanese people believed that Japan would win the war. At that moment,