EB Round Robin Quilt Swap - fabrics

These are the fabrics I am using for the EB Round Robin Quilt Block Swap. The swap involves 12 participants making up the same 12 inch quilt block in everyone else's fabrics. Once eveyone gets back their 11 blocks plus the one they make themselves they will have 12 quilt blocks in their fabric of all different designs (like a sampler quilt). Then we just have to put it together as we please! My finished quilt is going to be for Miss M's big bed when she moves out of the cot. I have a fat quarter bundle of the fabric collection 'Riley' by Anna Griffin which I am using.

Most if not all of the other participants are going for creams/whites as their backgrounds I think but this is my background fabric for all the blocks - bright enough? YES!

And the following are the fat quarters that I am using out of my bundle for the rest of the blocks - we send off one fat quarter of the background plus 2 fat eighths of different fabrics for contrast.

Snailblazer Swap Goodies Received!

Yay, I got my parcel of Snailblazer Swap goodies in the post this afternoon. Oh, I have been spoilt! A big thankyou to my fellow swap partners; Cam from Curlypops for the gorgeous keyring and brooch, Amanda for the stunning polymer clay necklace, Aimee for the cute little zip purse, Fran for the reversible glasses case, Michelle for the cute little felt brooch, Nikki for the super cute little frog fridge magnet, Xena for the lovely little tote bag, Tania for the gorgeous handmade cards, Vickie for the great little pen holder and Sandra from Pepperberry and Co. for the great little tissue holder. Everything is lovely, beautifully made and certainly going to be put to use! Lastly, thankyou to Cass for organising this fantastic swap - look forward to the next one!

And this is what I sent off for my swap group. Little vintage book gift tags with 4 hair accessories attached; pony, pin, yoyo button and crochet hair clippies. I hope my swap partners like them : )

I also received this book in the post today - I only ordered it earlier this week from Fishpond, so super fast delivery was great after hearing a few others had to wait for their copy. Will get stuck into browsing through it over the weekend.

Swap Fun!

Cass over at Snailblazer is running a swap. For all the details click the link and come and join the fun. Basically it involves making 10 of the same handmade item, which you then send to here along with an extra envelope for her to send back to you your 10 goodies from 10 other people. Confused? Click the link : )

EB Kids Clothing Swap - what I sent off!

So here is what I sent off my my swap partner Kylie (who I don't think has a blog) for her little man Hartley who is 2 1/2 years old. Hartley is a very tall boy so I made clothes in sizes 3 & 4 to suit him. Mum Kylies requests were bright colours, overalls, sock monkeys and snakes so hopefully she is happy with what I came up with.

Pants, T-Shirt & Overalls

Overalls in Size 4 with yellow sock monkey lining and front pockets. I had bits and pieces of a very old pattern for these that the MIL gave me so had to make some pieces up, but I love how they turned out, so cute!
O+S Sandbox Pants in Size 3 with red sock monkey pockets Freezer Paper Stencilled T-Shirt of a snake

And a close up of the snakes tongue and eyes

EB Kids Clothing Swap - opening day!

Today is opening day for the EB Kids Clothing Swap! Thankyou Esther for this gorgeous outfit for Matilda. Unfortuately the shorts a too small but the dress/top is perfect and the little headband looks so sweet on. Thankyou again Esther, the colours really do suit her perfectly!

Front

Back

Some very fuzzy action shots of my little princess thinking it was very funny for mummy to be chasing her around the house trying to take her photo!

Finally I cornerd her in the bathroom . . . right next to the toilet! lol

I know that my swap partner has received her gift for the little man I was sewing for but has yet to post what she got, so once she does will post some pics of the outfits I made : )

EB Kids Clothing Swap - ready to send!

Well I am finished!

My parcel of clothes is all wrapped up and ready to send to the little person I was making for : )

EB Pin Cushion Swap

This is what I received. My sender didn't include a card but I am going to take a stab in the dark and say a big thankyou to Becca for my gorgeous little chicken pin cushion and some extra little pressies!

My partner to make a pin cushion for was Dani and below is what I made for her. The little extra pin cushion is a thumb pincushion that can be tied onto the big one with the ribbon when not in use so it doesn't go missing : )

EB Haby Swap

Thank you to Cass for the lovely goodies I received in the EB Haby Swap. A magazine, some material, a pin cushion, zips, pins, ric rac and buttons. All lovely bits and pieces that I am sure will get used up very soon!

Sneak Peaks!

This is a sneak peak of what I am making for the kids clothing swap on EB.

And a sneak peak of what I made for the pin cushion swap on EB which I posted off last week.