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.