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Here are the quilts for the eighteenth team from the over 320 teams that participated in the International Miniature Quilt Exchange (IMQE). 201 teams submitted their quilts to be a part of the Exhibition in Houston 2018 and we are featuring the 24 teams selected for the first IMQE Exhibition.

Click here to learn more about the International Miniature Quilt Exchange (IMQE).

Enjoy the quilts from Team 320 created by Magdalena Galinska and Zsofia Molgaard.

Title of Quilt: The Map of My Thoughts

Quilter's Name: Magdalena Galinska

Location: Prace Suze, Mazowieckie, Poland

The Map of My Thoughts Novelty fabrics, bold colours and sparse quilting form this modern quilt, which depicts my ideas, feelings, expectations, boundaries, inhibitions, internal divisions and the process of crossing them. I wanted to create my own "fabric" from which this quilt was made. This time though not all is black and white but there is some colour – like in life. Contact with my quilting buddy showed clearly, that we are quite alike despite the differences and distance. Because we speak the same quilting language. This quilt will be a surprise for Zsofia, as hers will be a surprise for me. That is what we had agreed upon and I can hardly wait to see mine. And hope she will like hers.

Title of Quilt: Midnight Beauties

Quilter's Name: Zsofia Molgaard

Location: Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA

I got Lenka as a partner after my first partner withdrew from the exchange. I was really happy to connect with Lenka and to get her know a little bit through emails and Facebook. Communication started off really good since she speaks English so we didn’t have a language barrier. We quickly came to agreements on how we wanted to do the swap. Both of us like color and paper foundation piecing and decided to do a secret swap without a theme or any set directions. Both of us like the freedom of creating quilts and I personally love to see how other people work and create. And love to see their own style. Looking through Facebook I found her personality very bubbly and colorful got a little insight into her life/sewing. After a long search I decided to use the New York Beauty blocks with rainbow spikes on a black background. I used a rainbow variegated thread to quilt my mini. As a modern quilter I’m in love with walking foot quilting so after thinking for a while an idea pop into my head and decided on stitching in the ditch around the NYB blocks and use matchstick quilting for the background to emphasize the color play in the quilt. I really love how it turned out. And I’m glad I had the chance to meet Lenka through your program. I hope we can meet in person sometime. I would do it his swap again.