Afghanistan Inspiration: 2010-2013

Back in April 2010 I posted about a challenge I'd got involved with for European artists to create an art piece around small embroideries stitched by women in Afghanistan, which would then travel around either the UK or Europe as part of a bigger exhibition (raising money for the Afghan women in the process).  For the past 3 years my felted piece has been travelling around Europe, and it finally came back to the UK into an exhibition at the Creative Stitches and Hobbycrafts show at the ExCeL in London last week.  So I decided to go along and see if I could remember what it looked like!  Here are a couple of pictures, I thought this small exhibition looked really good.  There's also a new challenge, in reverse this time, for European artists to start off an art piece, which then goes to women in Afghanistan to complete.  Time's a bit short for me at the moment to get involved, but watch this space...(and click on the one earth textiles link if you're interested in getting involved)!