mobile swap

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.