Holiday Fabric Swap!

OK, it looks like we have enough people interested in participating that I'm going to give this a shot! So here are the outlines of the Stash Swap:

➡ This will be a secular winter exchange, and open to everyone. If you participate in a winter holiday, feel free to share in on the website (more on that in a sec), but if your swap buddy doesn't have anything listed, please no holiday-specific fabrics or wishes!

➡ The goal is mainly to stashbust, but I've set a $$ limit nonetheless, in case some people want to shop some cute local trinkets/fabrics/notions. For the moment, we're only doing fabric and not yarn, just to keep it simple.  

➡ Quantity-wise, I'm leaving it mainly up to you. USPS has a Small flat rate box that's 12" x 5" x 2" and Canada Post has a similar size, so let's say roughly that size. Don't go overboard and don't skimp out, but other than that, I'm not going to micro-manage.

➡ You will be grouped by geographic location, and I've found a way for you to add some details about what fabrics would be most useful to you (i.e. if you're allergic to a fibre, you can put it there)

⭐️I have to group all Europeans together, because there aren't enough of you from any single country for it to make sense to have individual countries.... my apologies, but keep that in mind when signing up - you might have to mail a package from Germany to Iceland, for example (hopefully that's a perk rather than a drawback, but I felt it worth mentioning)

🧶The deadline to REGISTER TO PARTICIPATE: November 25

​🧵Please SEND YOUR MAIL by December 6th

SO if you would like to participate (and I hope a lot of you feel up for it, it should be casual and fun, but also... please only join if you feel confident you can follow through) then you can click the appropriate link below, and it should take you the sign-up for it.

PLEASE follow ALL the instructions below to make sure that this works smoothly! 

🇺🇸AMERICAN Patrons: https://www.elfster.com/gift-exchanges/cffc8a39-59a9-4a24-b391-81f4188b09b1/?join=y2zm

🇨🇦CANADIAN Patrons: https://www.elfster.com/gift-exchanges/cc4b248a-2396-4490-beae-3dd241e309aa/?join=y2m0

🇪🇺EUROPEAN Patrons: https://www.elfster.com/gift-exchanges/4f6748fd-5fd8-4153-9924-b5f3451f5361/?join=ngy2

🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND Patrons: https://www.elfster.com/gift-exchanges/d6dc81a7-2b0e-4b7c-b48e-3a255dab0d71/?join=zdzk


1. The link should take you to this page, where you can sign up with your email, your name, and please FEEL FREE TO SKIP THE BIRTHDAY. It's not mandatory!

They will send you a code to verify your account...

Once you've confirmed, you'll find yourself on a page that looks like this. You can see the basic details, such as the fact that we will all draw our names on November 25th, and the budget is $10. I was required to enter an "exchange date" ....that doesn't mean anything, just ignore it! 

You can also see that on this same page, a bit lower, you enter your address so that your secret swapper knows where to send your fabric!

Then, the next page should look like this... JUST SKIP THIS STEP

That should take you to a page that looks like this, where the next thing you'll do is click on "add to wishlist"

Now they want you to choose a product, but since we're using this as a stash-busting exchange, instead I want you to click on "Write a Custom Wish" in the upper righthand corner.

Once you've clicked on that, you can write your basic fabric guidelines here. Under wish name, you can just put something like "Fabric Scraps" and then where it says "Note for Family & Friends" here you can enter the details. Don't worry about giving it an image unless you want to.

I think the key is giving enough information that what you get will hopefully be useful to you, but not so detailed to the point that your swapper doesn't actually have anything that they can send to you.

For Example:

"I love blues, greens and purples. Any fiber is fine, except that I'm allergic to wool. I love buttons, hooks & eyes, and ribbon. Random fact: penguins are my favorite bird, I'm into hiking and I have a cat named Bogus, but I don't celebrate Christmas. "   --- gives enough detail that your swapper has a good chance of getting you something you can use, and the random fun fact means that if they feel like they get to know a tiny bit about you

If you have questions, please feel free to ask!