I do enjoy a good blog swap, as my lovely followers will know, so when I saw the Seasons Swap, organised by Kimberley of
Creative Chaos, I signed up. It was a great idea - find out your swap partner's favourite season and then buy and make things to send them. I was partnered up with Maria, from
Dotty's Daughter . We emailed and found out that we are scarily similar, even down to our ages! Maria told me that she didn't have a favourite season and I responded that early Summer was my favourite. So, armed with some information, we started shopping and making. Our parcels were swapped and I received the parcels above.
I opened them to find a plethora of gorgeous gifts. Maria had been so generous! Flowery bunting, tulips, felt squares, felt flower pegs, a heart decoration, buttons, a gardening themed scissor fob and a personalised patchwork pincushion with sewing charms,
The patchwork pincushion deserved its own photo.
Bunting, buttons, hearts and flowers...
...and the gardening scissor fob, complete with welly! I emailed to thank her and received a lovely reply, but she also said that she had forgotten to add in another part of the parcel so that would be sent too. Lucky me - two parcels!
Here's what was in parcel two. Lots of sewing goodies including needles, pins, ribbon and some patchwork for me to start. There were also seeds and a dragonfly bracelet, some cat clips and some angel decorations made by her daughter.
Here are the angels - aren't they lovely?
Here's my patchwork project for the autumn evenings... A
HUGE thank you to Maria for her amazing generosity, thoughtfulness and kindness and for being such a lovely swap partner. As I was opening my parcels, it did strike me how we had sent similar types of things.
Here's what I sent: Spring (magnets, seeds, a scissor fob/keyring/bag charm and bird material), Summer (a mug, magnet pegs, some sewing machine material and a piece of the London material, (which I used to make a doorstop for my friend in Canada) as she used to live in London), Autumn (hot chocolate, a spiced candle, a notebook and some pens) and Winter (a felt heart, monochrome bracelet and earrings).
It was a marvellous swap to be involved with and I really enjoyed it. Thanks to Kimberley for organising it and of course, to Maria.
