These quilts were all in the SAQA: Camouflage display at the Houston Quilt Festival.
I especially found this one interesting! The photo above shows the quilt at a distance and you can see the face. The photo below shows the "desolate landscape with dilapidated houses" and the pollution. Well camouflaged!
I still have a lot of pictures to share from the Houston Quilt Festival so here are a few! 😊
My Little Bits group met last week and as always, we had a great time. Here are a couple of show and tell! Multi-talented Sherida showing her most recent water color. Look how those trees just sparkle in the background. I really love this! (Sorry for the reflexion - it was hard to get a good picture, but it's amazing.)
The next two pictures are Eleanors quilt that she made using the "potato chip" block and scrap fabrics. It always amazes me what fabrics you can put together in a scrap quilt!
My friend's daughter asked me if I had some fabric scraps of certain colors a few months ago because she wanted to make a bookshelf quilt for her Mom (my friend) who is an avid reader. Look how great it turned out! I'm so impressed! She said she is not a quilter so she didn't make a quilt, she "crafted a blanket". 😂. Looks like a fabulous quilt to me!! 👏❤️
Oh my gosh - should I make a pickleball quilt? It's so tempting!!
I had the best time with the Needle Keepers yesterday! I have the best time with them every Tuesday but yesterday we had our Christmas party (a little late because December was so busy). We had decided to make one gift this year, not knowing who would get it. The gifts were wrapped and numbered and we each picked a number and then opened the gift we received. It was SO fun seeing what everyone had made. This is such a creative group! 🥰
I had made this Christmas pillow from a Jen Kingwell pattern.
I received a book pillow that Becky made and I couldn't be more thrilled! I love to read and this pillow is SO cute! I love the fabric, I love the cute wool design on the front and she FILLED the pocket with book related gifts such as book marks, book labels, reading glasses, a gift card for a book and her beautiful homemade cards. I love, love, love this! ❤️
And, I definitely need to up my game next year!!
A wonderful sewing tool holder made with beautiful fabrics!
An enormous bag which will hold all kinds of fabric!
Becky shared the link to the tutorial for my pillow. I may have to make some for gifts next year!
Here is the link:
https://youtu.be/mbSGW8vgEAg?si=gGkqmmjHBxfdbsFq
My friend Becky shared a YouTube video with me on how to make these fairly easy kitchen towels (with no buttons or button holes!). I ordered some towels online thinking I'd make about 12, THEN I watched the video and found out that each towel makes two of these hanging towels. So I ended up making 24 and about everyone I know got one for Christmas! 😂
Anyway, they were fun and easy to make and I'm sharing the link to the YouTube video at the end of this post! Happy sewing!
A couple of years ago I finally started keeping track of the books I read each year. I made a spreadsheet and I include the book title, author, a short description and then give the book a 1-5 star rating, 5 stars mean I really loved the book or at least liked it a LOT. *****
This year I read 78 books! My daughter asked me to pick my top ten for the year. I actually had given 20 of the books I read five stars but from those 20 I narrowed it down to these ten.
If you love to read like me, and have a great suggestion for my 2025 list please put it in the comments. I love getting good book recommendations!
Happy Reading in 2025!! 😊
