Houston International Quilt 2025

 On my way.   Road travel. Yippee

Open Studio Friday 10-10-2025

Open Studio October 2025 Houston Quilt

INTERNATIONAL QUILT FESTIVAL/HOUSTON (1975-PRESENT)

The International Quilt Festival is the largest annual quilt show in the U.S. and takes place each fall in Houston, Texas. Festival regularly attracts more than 40,000 people from over 25 countries all around the world. There’s shopping at more than 700 booths for quilts, fabric, supplies, and crafts, along with 350 classes and lectures for all experience levels.

 Festival features more than 1,200 quilts and unique works of textile art on display. We also have editions in the spring and summer in different cities.

Remembering the GREAT

 Siddi Quilters

KAWANDI QUILTS HISTORY AND RESOURCES

By Carole Lyles Shaw / July 28, 2024 

Many quilters have discovered and fallen in love with Kawandi quilts.  It is a wonderful project for quilters and sewers who want to explore hand piecing and quilting.  It is also a form of ‘slow stitching’.

However, I think it is important for quilters to know the history of Kawandi quilts.  I’ve seen posts on social media with people wondering about the origins or perhaps assuming that the technique was invented recently.

SIDDI QUILTERS – KAWANDI QUILTERS

The Siddi people are Indians of African descent who make the Kawandi quilts.

I took the Dive!

 My hands-on quilt lady-sister taught several class sessions for us!!!!   And I turned the lining inside out…. So here’s my Jean Bag.   I purposefully hunted a summer garage sale to find oversized jeans for $1

Here’s my treasure!

And my phone holds dear the new blooms and f late summer.  Outstanding..God is good

MYSTERY ..... AND A THIMBLE DISPLAY

 

Pieces and Patterns Quilt Exhibit

 Here's another DAILY DOSE of INSPIRATION to those in my quilt-y world of friends

Plan to share my quilted art along with QuiltFolk 31 artists featured in this great group of artists: Patterns and Pieces

Plan to visit the GAYLORD PICKENS MUSEUM

and the Reception on. September 25, 2025

https://www.oklahomahof.com/

HUMMA Trail (2023)

Paying Tribute to Oklahoma Women

 Kate Bernard

Nancy R Davis

Ada Sipuel Fisher

Hanna Atkins

Clara Luper

My retirement life is almost too busy to do my several other dreams…. A portfolio….   A series of women called OKLAHOMAN IMPACT

Clara Luper —- Yet Speaking

 Quilting my livelihood!  Here's my latest adventure! Art Quilt exhibit 

Quilt Work n Play

 

Mastering the Pouch Bag

 

I’ll getting into the groove!  Using my stash fabric, batting, lining material, poly zipper, and basic sewing supplies. The process is my pleasure

I made it - Today

 I made it!!!!!

Notice the ZIPPER PULL?   

Over a year ago-I rummaged through an Estate Sale…. Why did someone collect WATCH FACES….  So the box was cheap… and the box went home with me!

Years of digital and I-Phones….  A beautiful timepiece is the zipper pull!!!

Inside pocket????

Question:     Who really really NEEDS a quilted pouch?   Three words from AI ….  style, practicality, and durability. 

Let’s put this another way …  people who need “ organization “ at the bottom of the purse!!!🌺🌺🌺

Sunday Jammin!

 Sunday morning inspiration?   I’m surprised that im moving ahead in making this NQM-Block/month!!

I have a July 2026 quilt and exhibit  idea that’s brewing!  Especially since I have a great -almost 5 yr old stash waiting to be my crown jewel!

Luvin this journey!!!

African American Quiltin’

I’m often thrilled and enjoy peeping in on a wonderful quilter:   Atlanta Quilt Festival Founder —  O.V. Brantley who said “Our quilts are just a little bit different.”

 Believe it or not… my Big Mama chose NOT to PASS FOR WHITE.   As did her (7) older brothers n sisters.  We have family pics of the (7) younger siblings with their mother Cindy Anderson Smith who was enslaved in Louisiana 

Sharing great similarities as the quilters of Mississippi Geese Bend!!

Pictured Below

Avid-audacious 82 yr old:  QUILTIN’ skills are just from the past 2 years (Oklahoma City)

  QUILTIN’ is almost as old as the history of America. Black slave women were needed for spinning, weaving, sewing and quilting on plantation.

“I do view African-American quilting as a genre, just like 

traditional quilts, 

art quilts, 

modern quilts,” 

A lovely time to Be a Maker

 Is it even possible to set our country on a course for redemption? How can we come to terms with the fact that half our fellow citizens embrace cruelty, racism, ignorance, and cultism over democracy? How will we navigate the violence and cruelty of these times and protect ourselves, our families, and our integrity?

If you are not asking those questions today, you haven’t been paying attention.

For the past three years I have also been focused on a different set of questions. If America as we know it cannot be saved and we are truly in the abyss, what is the new America we can create when we emerge from this dark place? What is our vision for that new America? What must we do now to lay the foundation for its creation?

(By:  Sherilyn Ifill /written on 07-02-2025)

Inspiring the Art of the Quilt

My haven

I am inspired by the art of the quilt.  Quilt Historian— Designer — A Maker of a vast array of quilts—  and Long-Arm quilter

Quilt Festival in Houston 2025

 

Route 66 thru Oklahoma

 

Scissor Tales Guild Friends

 

Cactus & Moonflower

 

The Bible Quilt ~ Harriet Powers

………….,,,,,,,,,,,,             THOUGH IT FOLLOWS NO KNOWN PATTERN OF QUILT-MAKING …..

AND THOUGH IT IS MADE OF BITS AND PIECES OF WORTHLESS RAGS, 

IT IS OBVIOUSLY THE WORK OF A PERSON OF POWERFUL IMAGINATION AND DEEP SPIRITUAL FEELING.” — ALICE WALKER, ON THE BIBLE QUILT (1974)