Winter Lights

Every once in awhile a book crosses my desk and I have to drop everything else and drink it all in. Today's distraction was Winter Lights : A Season in Poems and Quilts by Anna Grossnickle Hines.

Our Children's Services diva was planning a holiday-themed Preschool Storytime, and wanted to include other winter celebrations besides Christmas. So her theme, Bright Lights, was perfect for this book, which illustrates many kinds of winter lights, from moonlight and Christmas to the aurora borealis and Hannukah.

I thought the quilts illustrating the book were perfect.

Sorry my photography is so dreadful.

This, below, was my favorite of the whole book. The look and feel of the luminaria is captured so perfectly in the pieced strips that make up the quilt. I could have spent the rest of the day looking at this quilt. Great economy of color usage and of design.


This one was wonderful also.

I came home tonight and poked around a bit on the web and found the author's website, with a wealth of information on the quilts in this book and how they were made. On the homepage, click on the "For Quilters" link on the left. On the "For Quilters" page, scroll down and click on the image of the cover of the Winter Lights book. Prepare to lose yourself for quite some time.