a Malva and a pattern called "Sunburst"

Broken and Reassembled

"zerbrochen und neu zusammen gesetzt",

"Broken and Reassembled",

wallhanging,

79 x 49 cm, 

31"x 19",

sewn by hand and machine,

hand quilted

I can only say that I could never have planned it to come out that way, it just so happened that I had to follow several turnings and yes, the whole process of doing that involved a lot of measuring and assembling tiny pieces over long hours of work, and then, most importantly, something I never did before, 

finally cutting a nearly finished handmade top into several pieces again, which was a spontaneous decision and done in minutes.

In order to sew these strips together in a new way then I had to use the machine quickly or all my handmade seams would have come loose and the pieces would have been scattered around on table and floor.

It was quite an adventure and I feel the outcome is not a smooth but an interesting one, and it somehow looks right to me now.

Funny Houses

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some 

funny houses.

Steven King

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

well, these "funny houses" can be used as bookmarks, that's what I do, but they can also be hung up, and they can hold little items like notes, too, because they each have a small pocket at the back…

The book shown here is a very lovely one:

"Forgotten Bookmarks-

A Bookseller's Collection of Odd Things Lost between the Pages"

by Michael Popek

Home

Recently I came across a very nice article in the New York Times.

It was written by Walter Mosley, the title was:

"Patter and Patois".

He writes about the "Literary Landscape" of Louisiana, where his family comes from.

What I like most:

I found in his lines a definition of the idea of "home",

and these are my own words but I used some of his:

A home holds my history, waits for my return, remembers my stories and there is a road that brings me back again and again.

Here is the article in full:  

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/books/review/walter-mosley-on-louisiana-literature.html