Memories of Halloween 2012

Here in Australia, Halloween pretty much passes us by, although over the last few years there seems to be more people (kids!!) that are interested in the celebrations....but I have been thinking about where I was this time last year.....

Yes in America, New York....

.....Dallas

and finally Houston! I don't think I have any pumpkin photos in Houston....because by then I think I had seen every shape and colour of pumpkins....and of course my interest in all the fabulous quilts had taken over by then!

So just in case you are interested, the winners for this year Houston Quilt Exhibition have been announced, see here, and I was very bemused to see that the winning quilt has been created by the quilter after seeing this fabulous Chihuly glass exhibition at the Dallas Arboretum, which Mum and I also saw, this is the actual photo of the gondola...

...can you imagine creating a quilt from this....I would love to see the quilt in real life! This article in the Houston Chronicle has a better photo of the quilt.

On my own personal quilting... I have been up to my eyeballs in pink scraps, which I will share in later post (I am not happy with my pink scraps so I am ignoring them for a while)... but I have been having some fun with BROWN fabrics.....hard to believe....but I bought this pack of brown and grey fabrics when I was in Houston last year, and the guild has been playing around with clam shells, and I had clams shell papers and a glue stick, and hey presto.....

I am cheating with sewing down the little clams with a zig zag stitch....I have only done one row so far, and glued down the second row ready to be zig zagged...

There will be about 10 rows in total, big enough for a large pillow, or small quilt...I haven't decided yet!

That's all for now....I think I can hear some little trick-or-treaters coming down the path :)

Happy Halloween!