Visit to Poland

I traveled to Poland 2 weeks ago to meet my father's younger sister and her family for the very first time ever. We made a connection through facebook back in March after one of  my brothers posted a wedding picture of our parents looking for family.
Czeslaw and Halina met in 1945 after WWII and were married Feb 9, 1946 and moved to Canada in 1948.
His sister Albina was only 10 when he left home in 1935 and she saw him for 1 day when he returned to Poland only once in 1966 to see his mother who died a few months later. Halina died at age 73 in 1999 and Czeslaw in 2001 at age 81.
Halina never returned to the land of her birth.

So,  my 88 year old Aunt Albina is a real fire cracker. I pulled out my CCCQ blocks the first morning and she asked me to show her what I was doing . . . perhaps another quilting convert. When asked why I did this stitching thing, I replied that I liked to keep my  hands busy . . . an alternative to chewing off all my nails.
She stitched on this block for a while then commented her glasses weren't very good then stitched some more and again commented about her glasses. She stitched from left to right and I stitch from right to left.

Anyway, by the end of the week I finished the thing, removed the freezer paper to her wonder and amazement and then gave it to her as a gift. Not sure what she will eventually do with it, but it pleased her to receive it.
When I asked if I could go shopping to a fabric store, I was first taken to a store selling curtain materials, then to another selling upholstery material and finally to a tailor shop. I'm not sure quilting is a well known craft in Warsaw at this point, at least in my family there.

Blessings,
Chris