Swap Angel

In May I took part in a swap.
Unfortunately my original partner decided to not honor her commitment
And to the rescue came a wonderful lady - Sandy!

Thank you so much Sandy, this really was a generous thing to do, Sandy did this with no reward. Some people just really make your heart sing.

It's on again!

Once more I'll just be making and collecting the projects rather than swapping. With another bub on the way and a few commission to finish, I don't have the time and would hate to let a swap partner down.

All The way From Estonia to Australia

Machine embroidered Label
The blog doesn't tell me much as I can't read Estonian (is that a language?)

Just stunning!
The colour is balanced beautifully through the quilt.

Siret lives on a little Island in the Baltic.

Thank you Siret for the beautiful quilt and the chocolate
Yes, Siret sent me chocolate! How did she know I was a chocoholic?
One looks like white chocolate with Blueberries and the other I'll have to open to find out.

Thank you to Margaret of 'Four Seasons Quilt Swap' for organising and hosting this swap.

Love SPRINGs Eternal

Love SPRINGs Eternal
Made for Susan
For the Four Season Quilt Swap
Susan requested Red and Spring.


Freemotion quilted with hearts,
Beaded with flowers and hearts

Pieced braid.

Celtic knot with hearts.

Background is pieced with scraps and strips of red.

I really loved creating this piece. It's been a while since I just let myself go. Susan has her quilt now so I can share the colour and theme with you. I'd like to make a few more of these small quilts they are so much fun to make, relatively small and quick to make.

Four seasons Quilt Swap - Ready to send

It's finished! Just waiting for it to dry so it can go in the mail.

It has some piecing ..some celtic knot applique

Some beading and a lot of freemotion quilting.

I can't show you the colour yet as this is a secret swap..shhh we don't want to give it away do we?

Pigs do fly

This little piggy came all the way from WA
He's the creation of Gill.
Gill sent him to me as a swap on Craftymama's
I'm assuming he came by airmail not by road.
He did get here quickly

I love the rosette made from ricrac.

Four seasons Quilt Swap

I can't wait to get started!! This is my first time.
I'm so impressed by all the quilts produced in the previous swaps.
I'm looking forward to challenging myself to produce something equally as stunning.

The swap places are limited. To get the sign up details and rules visit HERE.

Crochet and knitted skirts

I made these two skirts for a swap with Suzanne. She has them now, so I can show you the photos. The colours are a bright. I had so much fun dying this wool. I have a couple more kilos of wool here to dye up.

Crochet skirt -My design
Knittery Merino hand dyed by me

Crochet and knitted skirt - designed by me
Knitted in wool supplied by Suzanne, Hand dyed by me

Swap with Suzanne

I received a wonderful parcel from Suzanne on the 2nd of September. Suzanne is a member of Crafty Mama's (my favorite forum).

It's taken me this long to blog about it. I wanted to finish my part of the swap before I did.
Suzanne your swap is in the mail :) I hope you like it. It took me longer than I thought to complete my part of the swap. I ended up frogging it three times to get it right.

I'll post some photos of my part of the swap once Suzanne has it.

This is the hoody Suzanne made Lilly. The top is a Kwik Sew Pattern in size 4.
The fabric is beautiful and the workmanship and finish top quality.
You do beautiful work Suzanne.
Thank You

Swaps with Mandy

I love swaps!

There are some fabulous patterns in here including a really nice ladies shirt and some very cute nightgowns. The three skeins of wool on the left were dyed by Mandy. Some wool wash, mohair and other assorted wools. Thank you Mandy!

Crafty Mama Pincushion Swap

I love swaps!

This came from TraceyH on the Crafty Mama's forum. Amazingly the Freddo is still on the shelf in the kitchen. Only because I have a 250g block of Wittakers Creamy Milk open!

Woolaholics Swap

A Japanese knot bag, sock blockers, yummy chocolates, Patonnyle sock yarn, merino roving and a vintage Golden Hands book.

I received an amazingly spoiling package in the mail today! Thanks to my Mystery Swapper on Woolaholics! Thank you so much Mystery Swapper, I'll be enjoying those chocolates on the road tomorrow. The sock blockers look fantastic and I didn't have a set. And I love that book and no I didn't already have it.

There was a beautiful letter in my package too. Which showed how amazingly thoughtful my Mystery swapper had been in her search for the treats she sent me.

Swaps are so much fun :)

Carolyn made this beautiful smock top for Lilly. She looks so sweet in it, no one would guess she's really a little thug!

And the rumpster nappy came from Donna. Donna won it in the Great Down Under Nappy Hunt! Donna is also a hyena supreme.

There were also a couple of pocket nappies from Suzanne in todays mail and 650g of Bio- Natur Organic wool. I'm planning on soakers for the store with the wool.

In the Mail today - Kitchen Cool Swap and Sock Club

I got a great swap today :) With a wool hot pad and an applique one too. And two dishcloths which had a HP theme to them. My Swapper writes they are for Peter who is a Harry Potter fane :) I hope they encourage him to do the dishes :)

Thankyou swapper ... and I think I can guess who you are.... will have to go post my thank you now on Woolaholics and see if I guessed right!


And my 3rd installment of the sock club yarn :)

Woolaholics Chocolate swap.

My chocolate swap arrived ...from DONNA

Donna and I chat most days and she didn't give it away once.
And she came up with the idea of a chocolate swap when we were chatting one day.

She couldn't believe it when she got ME as her swapper.

I got some Lindt chocolate my favourite, some Organic hot chocolate which I'm already drinking, Yummy bikkies, MM's ..which are for the kids and some nappies for the bub on the way.

When I opened the parcel Lilly said, "Baby will like nappies."

I'm so Very Happy Thank you so much Donna

Small Things Swap!!!

I'm a member of Woolaholics and participated in the small things swap.
I was so pleased and excited when it arrived.
Isn't it beautiful? April did a fantastic job! I worked out who my secret Swapper was straight away as I'm a regualr reader of her blog!
Thank you so much April it's perfect :D :D

Woolaholics - Scarf swap

I got a parcel today :) and I was thrilled with it. This is my swap scarf from my secret swapper. The girls are modelling..but it's mine! They do want them.
Thankyou secret swapper. You made my day.