During the last winter Anine Sluyterman, the International Representative of the Danish Patchwork Guild, had contacted me and asked whether I would like to come to their AGM in Odense at the end of August and bring an exhibition to show to the Danish Quilters. Of course I would! I had to make arrangements with a colleague at work to ‘swop’ our working weekends, but that worked out fine. Then I had to get an overview where my quilts were, after our moves, and which ones I still own, because I had given some away when leaving our old place.
A week ago my husband and I set off to the north. It had been more than forty years since I had last been to Denmark, I admit. Now I wonder why… Right behind the border we were pleasantly surprised at how nice the stop and rest area on the highway was arranged and constructed, much more comforting and enjoyable than those in Germany. And the entire stay continued like that. I fell in love with Denmark and the Danes! Hope to be back soon.
The exhibition location was marked by the Dansk Patchwork Foregning’s flag as shown above. I really like the way they have made the Danish Flag their symbol by transforming it into a patchwork pattern!
Arranging my quilts went quickly, I had a few ‘left-overs’ that I didn’t have enough room for, but better than I did not bring enough to fill the space!
trial layout - the quilt in the lower left did not make it into
the final cut.
I was pleased with the way the quilts presented themselves on the wall. And I received quite a bit of positive feedback, had many nice conversations and was generally made feel very welcome throughout the entire two days.
I met SarahHibbert, who was showing her quilts across the aisle from me
Sarah Hibbert, Haiku
and we had a lovely and interesting conversation about our shared love of audio books, giving each other recommendations over the festive 40th anniversary dinner on Saturday night.
I did not take a whole lot of photos from the other exhibitions, but want to show this one made from men's striped shirts. Lovely setup and arrangement!
Else Graf Jorgensen (put a / across the o, please,
don't know how to achieve that on the computer right now)
Striped Men's Shirts
My husband
got to do a bit of sightseeing, I only took a little time off to go and see the
Hans Christian Andersen Museum downtown before returning for stewarding duty.
It was a lovely excursion and interesting experience. I really enjoyed seeing my quilts up on the wall again after almost three years. The mojo has definitely had a good push!
