I've taken part in a couple of swaps recently. . . . but due to delays by the USPS I was not able to publish the information until that I knew that the recipients had gotten their gifts.
The first swap was an Initial Heart swap that was hosted by Cheryll:
I sent to Terry in California the following gift:
The pouch with the embroidery is my version of a tutorial offered by Jenny of ELEFANTZ. Her tutorial can be found here.
Another swap that I was involved in was with the Monthly Doll Quilters program. This was the quilt for January. The monthly theme (which is optional) was "A Good Book" and I made the quilt below basted on "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". My partner, Dorian, said that her favorite color was blue. Since my favorite color is yellow it seemed like a perfect plan.
The quilt pattern is my version of a Grecian Key design. . . the yellows and blues all came from my scrap stash. It was fun trying to make all the pieces a different version of each color.
I machine pieced the quilt top and hand quilted it.
I did not take a picture of the back. . . but the label was about 1/2 of the back and I wrote the label with my own handwriting.
I have to take pictures of the items I received in both swaps. . . .but I'll leave that for another posting.
Now I plan on getting back to my sewing machine to work on a pincushion for a swap that I am in through the Quilted Angels Yahoo group.
Once that is done I will be finished with the swaps that I have signed up for. . . .and I think I will take the "extra" time I will have to work on my own projects so that I can get some things done.
In peace and pieces,
This content was originally posted on the quilt blog Books, Hooks, Sticks, etc. (www.bookshookssticksetc.blogspot.com). If you are reading this on any site other than the original or quilterblogs.com it is WITHOUT my permission and the content has been stolen.
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