Golden Desert Fabric Collection with donkey

Sand, shimmering heat, cacti , abandoned gold rush towns, donkeys roaming free, endless distances, and barren mountains with deep canyons. That’s how I imagine the ideal setting for a novel. Okay, this setting actually exists, but for whatever reason, I haven’t finished the novel—at least not yet.
I don’t know if it’s because dark, inhospitable regions for the setting of my fantasy novels—ideally with rain and thunderstorms that feel like the end of the world—or if it’s perhaps the “curse of 13” that my thirteenth novel is destined to remain unfinished. Who knows. Maybe both, even though I don’t believe in curses or the numbers associated with them at all.
Funny enough, rain and thunderstorms actually do appear in this novel, as does an apocalyptic atmosphere. Well, we’ll see. Maybe it will eventually write itself by magic. Or maybe, in the at least four hundred pages I’ve already written and discarded across the many drafts, I’ll still find the essence that finally gets the story moving and brings it to an end.

At least I was able to use the setting as an inspiration for midsummer designs, some of which have been released by Mary n Max Lillestoff on fabrics such as jersey, cotton poplin, summer sweat, canvas, and scuba. Among the Golden Desert designs this time, there are two panels—one for round floor cushions, also known as poufs, in wonderful golden-brown tones with sun and pebble patterns, and a donkey pillow.
I think donkeys are such funny characters. When they don’t want to do something, they just won’t—no matter what you do. And the braying when something rubs them the wrong way puts any alarm system to shame. Maybe it really would be a good idea to use a donkey’s bray as an alarm tone. That could send some people running for cover pretty quickly—especially if they don’t know whether the alarm system might actually come around the corner on four legs and kick them hard.

So, before I start rambling on about mules and hinnies—whose parents are a horse and a donkey, sometimes one, sometimes the other—and this text gets endlessly long and possibly brims with ironic remarks about donkeys and horses, I’d rather show you the designs from the collection.

The Golden Desert Collection

The linked designs are available from Mary n Max Lillestoff.
The designs can also be licensed for other purposes, and some of them can even be used for fabrics.