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| Hubby and I on Herne Bay Pier |
The Holiday Exchange is in two parts: the first part we needed to choose and print a free online chart on a Christmas theme. This needed to be parceled up with suitable fabric and the relevant skeins of thread and sent to our partner for Opening Day on 1st July.
We had to include a card or note and although with or without your name, as there were only a few of us and we are spread around the world it would have been easy to see who your parcel was from anyway.
I received a lovely snowman chart which I'll add to my Winter Wonderland collection for church. The design was Snowman in my Window by Homespun Collectibles The fabric in my parcel was 28ct Mountain Blue evenweave with DMC 434, 501, 720, 822 and 844 as well as a skein of white and black.
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| My Holiday Exchange parcel |
The second part of this exchange is to now stitch the design and finish it how ever you choose ready to include a photo in the Holiday Exchange Gallery when it opens on 1st September. That's when we find out officially who sent our exchange parcel.
The other exchange, Meet Up Exchange, is the one we set up at each meet up. We write our details in a card along with a few extra details relevant to the exchange theme. This time the item to be stitched was either a scissor fob or scissor holder and should be in the colour stated in the card.
We picked cards at random making sure we didn't choose our own. The meet up was 22nd April and opening day was today.
I've received a lovely fob stitched by Angi in my favourite colour lilac. The flowers are beautiful and such a clever idea to stitch on both sides - thank you Angi.
I'll share photos of the scissor fob/holder I stitched in my next blog as my partner has not yet posted about it.
I have also stitched a gift piece but I can't share that just yet. At the moment I'm working Country Cottage Needleworks 'Bluebird Cabin' which was gifted to me by Justine. It will be another ornament for my Winter Wonderland tree at church, it's coming along nicely.
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| Bluebird Cabin |
Thanks for calling by to read my news - happy stitching
7 comments:
I like the idea of the two-part exchange, that's a fun idea.
Glad you enjoyed some time away too.
Lovely exchanges Clare.
Nice progress on your stitching.
After being house bound for a whole month it certainly was doing you good to leave for a little vacation.
Great exchange pieces.
Lovely exchanges Clare
You received a pretty scissor fob from Angi. I can imagine that your weekend away was a welcome break from being practically confined to the house since your accident.
Looking forward to seeing the holiday exchanges revealed.
lots of love xxx
Can't wait to see all the holiday exchanges stitched up! Angi made a very pretty scissor fob for you.
Your Christmas tree is going to be stunning as always! I wonder what happens to all the ornaments at the end of the display?
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