"Books are the mile markers of my life. Some people have family photos or home movies to record their past. I've got books. Characters. For as long as I can remember, books have been my safe place. I read about places I can barely imagine and lose myself in journeys to foreign lands ..."
... says Leni in the very lovely book by Kristin Hannah "The Great Alone" (2018).
(This book is really gorgeous! Leni lives in Alaska...)
What Leni says is so true I think. And so it's time again to combine my two passions: books and quilts, and to make a quilt about books. It will not be something small like a bookmark or a wallhanging, no, this time I want to make a large book-quilt, you can wrap yourself up with it ...
These are the first blocks of such a quilt. The strips in the blocks are meant to show books on a shelf, and the stars ...
... the stars between the bookshelf-blocks stand for the sparkling ideas that we find
in all these stories and essays which we learn to love throughout our lives.
In addition to that I intend to include letters which spell out the magical line:
Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there lived a ...
This is what I've got so far, it's raw and only a beginning,
but I think - with time - it could turn out fine.
Happy reading!
