August

... it's my block for August.

I try to design a square each month in 2014. It's some kind of a diary.

All blocks together will form the top for a 2014-quilt-wallhanging.

I hope to get it all assembled and quilted by the end of December!

That's what I have so far:

Quilt of Belonging

http://www.quiltviews.com/at-grand-rapids-the-quilt-of-belonging

I just received this hint from a friend who is actually in Grand Rapids and is happily enjoying the fabulous view:

The Quilt of Belonging,

showing quilt blocks from 263 cultures represented within Canada and from countries all over the world, all united in one big quilt which is 120 feet long.

It's on display in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.

Here is a block from Greece:

Here is a lovely video about "The Quilt of Belonging":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4di1ftfa28

and here is more information:

http://www.quiltofbelonging.ca/home.htm

(the pictures of the block from Greece and of the joyful boy I found on the homepage, http://www.quiltofbelonging.ca)

Flowers in a Border

"Earth laughs in flowers."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/flowers.html

I wonder whether I should use such a strip (I designed it in a way that it's all patchwork, no appliqué, I just prefer patchwork-techniques in my work, mostly ) as a run-around-border for my quilt-top with Ginkgo leaves which form a circle...

I think, I will just make more flowers and decide it then.

The flowers could add a light note to the symmetry of the Gingko-circles...?

It would look like this:

Quilts in Movies: Cloud Atlas

I so much love to find beautiful quilts in movies I like - as I found them in "You've Got Mail" or in "The Descendants", "The Human Stain" or in "When Harry Met Sally"  or in "Lincoln" (I showed some pictures here before)...
and now I watched "Cloud Atlas" for the second time and only now did I realize that there is this wonderful "windmill"-quilt in Luisa Rey's room (Halle Berry). Only now did I notice so many more important details in this extraordinary movie - never saw anything like this, and never read any such novel like "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell. It's such an adventure: to read this book, to see this movie.
And this quilt looks so good in her room! A quilt always tells something important about the person who owns (and sometimes made) it.

I found this picture here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/apotospitomou/9268079358/

Unruly

Well, these are some old things, and then there are... what exactly are these?
It's not so easy to answer that question.
No1: These things make people smile very often, so that's what they are for in the first place.
No2: As always, things are what people think they are.
Me, I think these "Unruly Flowers", as I call them, could be used as bookmarks. That's what I do. 

(the book shown here is a masterpiece: it's "In And Out Of The Garden" by Sara Midda, 1984)

Here these "Unruly Flowers" come with stems and they are attached to wooden clothes pins:

I like this "unruliness" in them, they seem to say:

"I am what I am, and what I am needs no excuses",

that's a Gloria- Gaynor-song... :-)

Revisited

... just some blocks in quilts I made a longer time ago, I always have them around me but now that I make fresh lists of my work I "revisit" some things and look at them as if they were new guests in my home...