Here is a picture of my work in progress for the pillow swap that I also signed up for on the Dutch Sisters blog!

I am NOT usually a handwork person but for some reason the crazy patchwork bug got hold of me and won't let go. I am having a ball and the Internet is absolutely amazing. I found a wonderful blog where the lady teaches a new stitch a week and I found brilliant ideas there. Her site is bookmarked on my laptop so I will post that link later!!

Every minute I have free I try to stitch over another seam. I am really having fun and my creative juices are just flowing!!

Finally I managed to upload my finished candle mat! Mine is going to.........Europe!! I have to confess my sin: I posted it on the morning of the 16th only!

My daughter was in an accident the Saturday and needless to say I was a bit distracted! But I am happy to say that she is okay; nothing broken, a badly hurt ankle and a few places where skin came off which might leave scars but that is the worst. We are very grateful that she is fine. She is a bit shaken emotionally which one can understand.

Anyway I also entered the Pillow swap on the Dutch Sisters blogspot and I decided to do crazy patchwork and lots of embroidery on it!! Handwork is not really my forte but I am having a ball!! My swap partner choose blue as one of her colours and I don't like blue at all - so what a challenge!!

I'll post a picture soon!!

What are the chances you visit a Quilt Festival halfway around the world to see your quilt chosen to be displayed on the banner??

In August 2 friends and I decided(on the spur of the moment!) to visit Europe Patchwork in France in September. When we looked through the brochure I saw that the MY PLACE travelling exhibition would be on display. I knew my quilt was part of it ... but HUGE was my surprise when we finally got to France and saw that my quilt was chosen to be published in the Festival booklet PLUS on the banner of the venue where the My Place exhibition

took place!

My quilt is the one with the chicken on the lady's back. I called it "Piggyback". It is a black woman piggybacking a chicken somewhere in South Africa!

We first went to a Quilt Exhibition in Deventer (Holland) for a week and then we went to France. We had a ball of a time in Deventer! We met up with my folks who were there as well because my gran use to live in Amsterdam but she passed away in August so my parents were there for the funeral and to finalize her earthly possessions.

Because my roots are Dutch I love Holland! We saw a beautiful Dutch Quilt on the exhibition and my mom and I both bought a stack of Dutch fabric! I managed to work out a similar pattern on EQ5 and my mom started making the quilt today.

Today I finished the top of my Candle Mat fot the swop! Hopefully tomorrow I can quilt it!!