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
Under the moonlight
Terry’s prompt “night” is something I wanted to try someday. “Night” does not show everything in detail like day. At night, the scenery of the city changes into colorful with artificial light, but nature show its color in the dark in a soft light. Among them, the moon hanging in
Chairs in Space
When I got the most recent prompt for Cloth in Common, I wasn’t quite sure what to do. I had already created three Color Grid quilts about night. Night Solstice Winter Trance Finally, I decided a chair quilt was in order. What would
Night Falls Early at the Base of the Mountain
One nighttime image that came to mind is that of the clouds scuttling over the moon in its various phases and hues. And a particular night in South Africa when we stood beneath the night sky on a game preserve (no light pollution), and saw stars I’d never seen
Bliss Hill Road Nightfall
Bliss Hill Road Nightfall 30″ W X 40″ H ©Colleen Kole 2018 We have had a farm home on Bliss Hill Road for 15 years. What great road name for the road, right? I am sadly going to pack up our belongings and spend
The Soul of the Night
This quilt is the result of trying to visualize the crazy dreams that I sometimes have just before I wake up. You know the ones: you emerge from deep sleep, being not fully conscious but kind of aware of the ongoing dreams that play out in your head. The dreams
Night Shadows
I thought I was going to make a piece inspired by Patti Smiths ‘Because the Night’ but Patti (and Bruce Springsteen who wrote the song) were wrong. The night does not belong to lovers. It belongs to our deepest fears; the fears we cannot give voice to during the
When the lights come on and the stars come out…
“Night” is my theme, the one I had the pleasure of proposing to the group, so you might suppose that I would have had an idea of what I was going to make before I proposed the theme. I didn’t and I struggled to come up with a good idea.
Party Lights!
Party Lights I’ve never made a quilt about the night. I do love seeing the stars in a dark sky, but that’s usually in the early morning, when I’m going out to get the newspaper. Most of the time, when it’s night, I am safely inside! I became