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international quilt festival

Every year one of the world's largest quilt shows happens in my home city. I didn't know this until I began quilting about 5 years ago and not living in Houston any more. Last year Karl and I moved back just one week after the festival closed...bummer!

So this year I finally got to go! It was amazing! And much bigger than I was expecting! There were hundreds of vendors and a couple dozen exhibitions.

There were traditional quilts...

and contempoary quilts...

a quilt the size of a postcard...

and an 80-foot long quilt...

There were Japanese-made quilts, Russian quilts and a forest of German quilts...

Now I feel all inspired by the amazing quilts on display so I'm going to share them with you, too. Every day this week I'll share a quilt that amazed me. Starting with...

favorite shop friday: oh coco

It's been nearly one year since Karl and I moved back to the States from Europe. And I still miss it. Especially when I found this shop last week: Oh Coco.

Coco use to live there, too, and took some beautiful photos during her own European adventures that make me so homesick...



Heimweg Berlin

But even if you haven't been there...man, aren't these just pretty?! Don't you want one to just escape into?!



Welcome Home

Find her shop and your own bit of Europe here: http://ohcoco.etsy.com/.



Shadows of Siena