October

This is the block I added to my 2014-quilt this month.

This October everything went "around and around" for me, not like riding a carousel, but like following a natural route, one step leading to another, the ways sometimes being narrow, sometimes wide, offering some exciting new insights...

so now this kind of spiral seemed to be the right motif for my quilt in red and light colors, which serves as some kind of diary for me. Two more months to go, and then I will have finished the top and can start to add the batting and the backing, quilt the three layers, sew a border around it, and I am looking forward to finally being able to hang it up.

This is what I have so far:

Source of Information

Whatever you want to know about quilts, 

here are pictures, examples, descriptions, essays, wonderful collections...

What an excellent source of inspiration and information:

http://www.quiltindex.org/index.php

I go there often, and for smartphones there is a gorgeous App, 

which also welcomes you daily with a lovely "Quilt of the Day"!

A Vase

There is a wonderful poem, "A Vase", by Brad Leithauser,

here:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/245118