Last year, I so loved seeing all the pretty things that came in from Meg’s mobile swap, and this year I decided to join.
I didn’t have too much of a plan. I wanted to have dangly cloth parts (I used Martha Stewart’s strawberry pincushion as a template), and I wanted to have felt balls, and I wanted to make the circular kind. My partner wanted something colorful, and I think this fits the bill OK. Actually, I started out with red, yellow, orange, and pink, the colors in the tweed strawberry shape. Funny how it always comes back to blue, red and gray for me.
Of course, a nice thing about swaps is you get a present back. This is what I got from Liz. Isn’t it cool? She used paint chips for all the different grays and blues. Very lovely indeed.
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so….those are both incredibly awesome.
i’m a totally lame-o and still have to make mine for my partner. this weekend!
How beautiful, your strawberries!!! aren´t these the best? did you felted the balls yourself?
I totally missed this swap, would love to join one, but where do you find these swaps? is there anywhere an overview or something?
and I read your story in SEW HIP a month ago – here in germany, it´s quit quick in the mail. LOVE your place.