Pincushion Swap

I am so addicted to swaps at the moment on TNN, I love everything about them. The anticipation when waiting for my recipient to receive what I have sent them is fantastic. Also I'm sure our postie will think I have the hots for him, lurking around the mail box each day until I receive my parcel. Just as well madam likes to check the mail as well, poor wee girl spends a fair bit of time in the front section stalking with me.

The latest swap was for Pincushions (well duh, what does my title say).

Here is the one I sent



My sewing skills are still quite amateur, but my recipient was quite pleased with them so that's all that matters. For the square pincushion I used this pattern. It's a very easy pincushion to make.

The wrist band I just made up. Not too hard really, just a stuffed rectangle, a bit of elastic and some contrasting fabric to cover the elastic and presto and wrist band pin cushion :)

And here is what I received:



It's a nice big pincushion in some really funky fabric, and a wee bottle cap pincushion which is super handy.

Thanks so much to my sender, whoever you are. Still need to investigate a bit to see if I can find out.

TNN Yarn Swap V3

Last year it was decided that another yarn swap was in order. I did my first one a few weeks prior and was so excited to get started again.

There's something really special and exciting about making up a parcel for someone that you don't know and may never meet. I love every minute of it.

This is the package I made up for my swappee, the theme was Veneto which is known as the romance language and spoken in Venice and surrounding areas.



The yarn, hand dyed with cake gels


The Stitch Markers


This is what I received in return (and still don't know who sent to me)

The theme is 'Wouldn't it be Nice if the World was Cadbury'. Oh yeah it certainly would :)

There's 200gm of 8 ply wool hand dyed in purple and chocolate tones



The Full Package


The Gift
A really cute hand sculpted Cadbury-esque figurine and a box of chocolates. Yum yum


I can not wait to knit this yarn, the pattern I was sent was for some fingerless gloves. I will give them ago once I have finished a few things that are on my needles at the moment.

I wish I could knit and crochet all day, I have so many projects that I want to do, it's just finding the time to do them :) I am getting quicker so that's making things easier LOL

TNN Yarn Swap

I recently participated in my first yarn swap on TNN, it was so much fun.

I received a fab parcel from one of the wonderful ladies themed Óver the Rainbow

Included in the package was 200gm of Patons Merino Totem. 150gm's of this was hand dyed in bright rainbow colours.

Also included was a recipe for Rainbow Cookies, a knitting pattern for Tikki's Rainbow Dress, some fantastic rainbow stitch markers and a really cool rainbow catcher which will hang in Cara's bedroom.

The beautiful box


All the goodies


Stitch markers


Yarn


Rainbow Sun Catcher


Thank you so much yarn fairy, will post a pic of the rainbow dress when it's finished :)