Meet my friends Julia and Ethel.

Julia is a brilliant seamstress, look what she has run up for Halloween.

We both bought this same fabric a couple of years ago when I lived in Saudi Arabia, mine is still sitting in my to do drawer along with the pattern, Julia still lives in Saudi and she made this dress for a Halloween Ball she attended, I think this is the most beautiful and stylish Halloween costume I have ever seen!

While on the Halloween subject, my friend Ethel, who also lives in Saudi Arabia, pieced and quilted this fantastic Halloween quilt for her grand-daughter Izzy. Ethel and I learned to quilt together in 2010 and have been quilting buddies ever since.

Ethel is an amazing stitcher and a freelance longarm quilter, she quilts many quilts for the ladies of Saudi Arabia, in between quilting everybody’s quilts she even has time to do some for herself, aren’t they great!