Lots of swaps for July 2008

For this month we had lots to make and receive. I had to make a red, white and blue pincushion for Janie but was running late so sent it to her with the August swap (photo to come in the August 2008 message). I was supposed to receive from Mikki for the red, white and blue swap but still have not received it.

We had a Christmas in July swap for bowl fillers and here's my swap from Kirrily in Australia.

Here are the bowl fillers I made for Kirrily.

Another Christmas in July swap was for a scissor case and this is what I sent to Jo in Australia.

Sadly till now I have not received any swap in return. If I do finally receive something I will update.

Yet another Christmas in July swap was for a pincushion and needle case. This is what I made for Wendy in Australia.

and this is what I received from Wendy. Here the needle case is open,

and here it is closed.

Here as promised in my earlier message is my second version of the Pincushion Tree.

Last swap for July was a Ladybug pincushion swap. This is what I sent to Char,

and here are all the goodies that Char sent to me.

till next time,

Pincushions and Creations for June 2008

Hi,

Here I am back again already with the June hapennings. This month we had to make a fruit pincushion for our swap partners.

I made a "fruit salad" for Skeat, an apple, a pear and a banana.


I received this cute apple pincushion and some apple fabric from Janie, you can almost smell the apples on the fabric.


One of the gals in the group sent a photo of a pincushion tree and had everyone scrambling to buy the pattern. Since I would rather have the challenge of trying to make it myself, I gave it a try and this was my first version of it.



My dowel was a very thick one, actually a paper towel holder because one of my grandsons decided he needed my dowel for a game. When he finally gave me my dowel back I tried another version of the pincushion tree. That will be coming next time.


This next pincushion came about because I saw a pincushion that my friend Susanne from Australia made. I used up quite a bit of fabric before I finally managed to get it right. These umbrella pincushions are so addictive and look so pretty. In this photo you can see the pincushion part (the inside of the umbrella).


and here are the three that I have made so far.


For July 2008 there will be lots of new photos, so till then,

May 2008 Pincushions

Hello again, I'm starting to get caught up (a little bit). I managed to get photos taken of most of the swaps so that will be easier for me to get everything up in a few days. First photo is of the swap I sent to Miet, Janie and Audrey. I sent a different color to each of the ladies.

These are the pincushions I received in return.

This one is from Miet, my very good friend from Belgium.

this one is from Janie from the US.

and these two are from my "niece" Audrey also from the US.

We had to make an Owl pincushion for a challenge and this was my entry. Audrey won the challenge.

April 2008 Pincushion Swaps

Hello again, continuing with the pincushions.
Next swap was the April swap, I sent this one to Marilee:

and received this neat one from Skeat:

Also in April we had a container pincushion swap. This time I sent to Val in Australia, the box can be opened and Val can put her sewing notions inside:

and Val sent this sweet pansy pincushion one to me:

A new year

Here we are already 12th January 2009. Last mail posted was back in April 2008. I'm going to start the year off by posting photos of pincushions I've made and received throughout 2008 in various swaps.

This was my very first swap in March 2008 and sent to Marilee. Sahar my grandson made the x's with tulip paints.

Here's the pincushion I received from Marilee, isn't it gorgeous?

more later.

Oh boy, am I having a hard time getting back into my blog. It's so frustrating, I wanted to write quite a lot about what I have been up to lately, what's been going on with my DH and add some photos of the things I've been doing but by the time I managed to get in here it's quite late so I will leave it all for tomorrow.

Hi,
It's been a while since my last visit. Mainly because I couldn't find how to get back in again but I think this time I've got it. If this works then I'll start posting more often and add some photos and stuff. Bye for now.