friends swap–the one i sent

This is part 2 of my 2011 Friends Swap adventure. My wrapping of the gifts was very simple: brown paper and letter stickers.

Gift for “F” was chocolates. These are my favourite and I hoped Helen would like them.

“R” – redwork embroidery. The dog is actually a drawing of a dog toy that Helen has in her craft room. I spotted the toy while browsing through Helen’s blog and the idea to embroider it just sprang in my mind. The wording is from one of my crafty magazines.

“I” – red ink stamp.

“E” – some colourful embroidery floss.

“N” – embroidered needle case.


“D” – Helen likes and makes dolls, so I thought I would add one to her growing collection. (While making the necklace, I tipped my organised container of seed beads and had to pick thousands of them off my carpet!)

“S” – a stamp I carved. I had to make sure it worked so I did a few practice stamps. I washed it as best I could but red ink is very hard to get off.

This swap was a great adventure and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you, Khristina, for organising it and Helen, for being my lovely partner.