Pin It Weekly #250

Happy Weekly! Here are a few pins that showed up on my feed in the last few days.

Have a happy weekly!

IQA Houston {part 2} Tactile Architecture +

I finally uploaded all of the pictures from the Houston show onto the laptop. I cannot believe that I took 380 pictures! I must not have looked at the quilts.  Of course, some of those are duplicates because my phone is sensitive to touch (and I'm clumsy) but for the most part, I have at least 350 pictures--each one a different quilt. 


There's no way I can show them all. My plan, instead, is to post about ten pictures per post sort of based around a theme. Since I didn't take many pictures of the signs, I'll try to remember what I was doing. I did get the show book, so maybe that will help.

Although these quilts might have fit into the Tactile Architecture exhibit, they were scattered throughout the hall in different exhibits. And that explains the + in the title.

The following quilts are from the Tactile Architecture exhibit, which is one of my favorite competitions.  

For more on the Houston Quilt Show google the official hashtag  #houstonquiltshow to find pictures, tweets, and videos. 

Pin It Weekly #108

Because I've seen so many barns, covered bridges and other old structures recently, they've been on my mind.   Really on my mind, meaning that as soon as I was able to start pinning again, it's where I found myself.

I want to pin all of the photos that I've taken recently, but I haven't decided whether I want to create yet another board for my own photos or just add to the "water, works" board that I've now edited to include all of the water structures that I've found.  

Just for fun, here are a few of the photos that I took of covered bridges in Ashtabula County, Ohio, while we were on vacation.  

Beginning with the shortest bridge with an 18 foot span...

and ending with the longest bridge.

More pictures of covered bridges on a later date.

Pin It Weekly #97

Let's escape to some beautiful places for a little while....maybe a pretty little stone bridge deep in the woods or city park...

or patio side of a pot of succulents...

And sit on the garden steps...

near the pleasant scent of a pile of blooms...

or where ever you want to be for just a few minutes.