I love fabric swaps, especially charm swaps (5″ squares for the uninitiated). For a relatively small outlay, you get a huge range of what are effectively good sized scraps that you can then use in a variety of projects. I have been particularly addicted to rainbow charm swaps, so when Emily said she was running a Somewhere Over The Rainbow charm swap, I jumped right in. To both rounds…
For round 1 I got red and chose a red dot, Montage by Michele D’Amore for Benartex:
For round 2 I got purple, and chose this Lunch Box print from Michael Miller. I’d originally planned for another purple, but I couldn’t find it in Mandors where I’d got it before Christmas :o/
These are now chopped up and packaged up ready to be posted off to Emily.
I’ve also just received the charms from the Spoonflower I Spy Swap that the girls at Crafterhours organised. It took a good bit longer than a regular fabric swap, since Spoonflower print your fabric to order, and there were a couple of printing errors that required reprints. 56 of us each chose 2 prints, and they were all sent to US addresses, meaning the 6 of us internationals had a buddy to cut for us. Elizabeth was kind enough to be my buddy :o) Anyway, here they all are spread out, 112 different charms:
They are now all rather anally arranged by a whole bunch of categories with as wild subjects as ‘cartoon foods’ and ‘childlike animals’. It will make it easier on me though the next time I need a scrap for something :o)
Haha! That's so funny how nicely you fanned out the charms! 😀
Got my fabric for the charm swap this afternoon so thats my job for tomorrow!
Wow! You're all set with ISpy squares! That's cool that they had the fabric printed by Spoonflower then cut it up. Brilliant!
what a super fun pile of charms! i had a great time looking at them all trying to figure out what i on some of them. i saw bikes and hedgehogs and bowling balls and pins and possibly a pig… super fun!
Swaps are such a fun way to get little bits if cool fabric and to meet even cooler people.
oh my those charms are fab, I really need to do one of these swaps sometime.
I love looking at all the pretty pieces.
I love charm swaps too – little outlay and stress and big reward at the end. Yea!
I never heard of charm swaps before… Wow, this is quite a lot of scraps. Do you already know what you'll do with it? Have a nive weekend!
OOOOH, so jealous! fab fabrics. I never got the hang of designing with Spoonflower, I would love to have a go!
oh WOW! The Spoonflower charms are FANTASTIC! You're going to have a great time with them!