diff --git a/markdown/org/blog/roundup-2017-10/en.md b/markdown/org/blog/roundup-2017-10/en.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3dda1deab59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/markdown/org/blog/roundup-2017-10/en.md
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+---
+author: "joostdecock"
+caption: "Your new login background for the month of november"
+date: "2017-10-31"
+image: "https://cdn.sanity.io/images/hl5bw8cj/site-content/c9242975400bf885feef0b6ddc3b2bc0ce901638-2000x1500.jpg"
+intro: "This is your monthly roundup of the freesewing news of the last four weeks, and a look at what lies ahead in the next month."
+title: "Monthly roundup - October 2017: Huey, Roy, community building and pattern cover pages"
+---
+
+This is your monthly roundup of the freesewing news of the last four weeks, and a look at what lies ahead in the next month.
+
+## Looking back at october
+In retrospect, I should have made the october background image haloween themed. 
+I guess I'll try to remember that for next year.
+
+### Meet Huey
+
+First up: a new pattern. The Huey Hoodie is [now available](/patterns/huey) in beta.
+
+![Hi everyone, I am Huey](https://posts.freesewing.org/uploads/huey_b410125cba.jpg)
+
+Huey is a zip-up hoodie, have a look at [the Huey showcase page](/showcase/pattern/huey) for examples.
+[The announcement blog post](/blog/huey-hoodie-beta/) also explains what it means for a pattern to be in beta.
+
+### Community building
+
+Freesewing is slowly evolving into a communal effort. The 
+[freesewing chat room](https://chat.freesewing.org/) is turning
+into a rather chatty place, which is really wonderful to see.
+
+Furthermore, a number of people are taking a stab at designing their own patterns with 
+freesewing. I think that's very exciting and I'm looking forward to the day we'll all
+be able to enjoy the fruits of that labour.
+
+Meanwhile, people are also helping out with the site, suggesting fixes and improvements
+left and right, and [Wouter](/users/xdpug) even added an entire page on 
+[Git basics](/docs/git-basics) which should be a great stepping stone for people who like
+him want to get involved, but lack prior experience with Git (and GitHub).
+
+Needless to say, I am very appreciative of all contributions big and small.  
+If you'd like to get involved, [come say hi](https://chat.freesewing.org/).
+
+### Cover pages for patterns
+
+This is something I'm 
+[kind of excited about](https://www.instagram.com/p/Ba6qVTFDZv_/): 
+but I've made 
+[some changes](https://github.com/freesewing/tile/commit/9d2b11e7a9f0d08b890a04eced989f0b432d2c53)
+to [freesewing tile](https://github.com/freesewing/tile) to add a cover page to patterns.
+
+The tile repository holds software that turns your pattern into multiple pages you can 
+print on your printer (so called tiling, hence the name).
+
+You need to sticky-tape those pages together, and even though there are markings on the pages 
+to help you with that, it would be nice to have an overview page that shows the entire pattern
+and how it's layed out over the different pages.
+
+Problem is, because freesewing patterns are drafted on the fly, based on your measurements,
+there's no way to know how big or small your pattern will be. In addition, you can pick a variety
+of paper sizes which will also influence how the pattern gets tiled.
+
+![Turns out, you can add a coverpage if you wrestle long enough with PostScript](https://posts.freesewing.org/uploads/tile_6dccb4de24.jpg)
+
+So for the longest time, I felt it was simply not possible to add an coverpage with an 
+overview of how everything needs to be stuck together. But everyday is a school day, and 
+I'm glad to announce that starting of today, when you download a tiled PDF, it will come
+with a cover page detailing the layout.
+
+This is obviously very new code, so if for some reason you run into trouble with the tiler,
+make sure to [let me know about it](https://github.com/freesewing/tile/issues/new).
+
+### Roy will design cover images for patterns
+
+I've made some changes to [the patterns page](/patterns/) because I felt that the previous
+layout wasn't doing the patterns justice.
+
+While the layout is a bit better now (I think) the pictures are still a bit *meh* and they 
+don't really say *freesewing*.
+
+So, I've talked to Dutch illustrator [Roy Van der Hel](https://royvdhel-art.deviantart.com/)
+(who also signed for our measurements illustrations)
+and I'm glad to be able to share with you that he's agreed to do illustrations for the 
+different freesewing patterns.
+
+Roy will be working on these on and off, but I hope you'll start to see more of his work 
+here relatively soon.
+
+## Looking ahead to november
+
+Last month I said I was working on 5 patterns. One of those (Huey) has been released now
+and these days I'm occupied making a test garment for another pattern on that list: a wintercoat.
+
+I don't want to give away too much about this yet, because it's kind of exciting, but
+I hope to be able to show more of this during the month of november. If for no other
+reason that it's getting cold and I could really do with a warm coat.
+