I made a "vacation" quilt for my best friend and her husband. We have been best friends for 45 years, and after becoming empty nesters, we have taken some wonderful vacations together. I found fabrics to signify certain vacations (hot air balloons for Albuquerque, patriotic for Washington DC, Asian for San Francisco, etc) and made snowball blocks out of them. Since I had so much fabric left over, I made a vacation quilt for my husband and me. It makes me happy to see the quilt and remember those special vacations.