Carrefour du Patchwork, Liepvre, Alsace, France

I am working in Liepvre. There are many eighteenth and nineteenth century villages along the streams of Val d'Argent. Argent is the latinate work for silver. The mines have faded but the land and the villages are still as valuable as the silver that was taken from the ground years ago.

Jean Marie works for the village of Liepvre; his son, Siegfried, came by mid afternoon to give us a hand. What a delight to work with these men. My french is less than a toddler's. They were shocked at my ladies tape measure in inches. However, I went from quilt to quilt measuring for lattice. I marked the wood and labeled each one. Jean Marie did the sawing by hand.

This is one of the most brilliant means of hanging an exhibition in what day to day is a gymnasium. Good quality, white coated particle board; one and one half metres wide and two metres high is assembled with special steel corner channels. That means free standing, white, solid walls. Jean Marie then takes what appears to be copper rod and bends top and bottom to perfectly fit both the board wall and the lattice that holds the quilt.

He and I will work this afternoon. I need for him to help me move two works. One a quite long piece of lace and the other, Barbette Lockard's We Owe Them More