Cheerful Fabric Swap Pictures!

So yesterday was the "deadline" on Elfster for the fabric swap, which I apologize, caused some confusion - the website makes me set a deadline for the swap, so I randomly chose yesterday as the date, but it doesn't actually mean anything. However many of you have been emailing me photos of your fabric, and I've been compiling a post here, so I will use yesterday's deadline and today's relative day off (only two shows today, instead of three) to finish the post. I will do another final one early next year, which will probably be Canada-heavy, given the postal strike and related delays, so if you still want to send photos, please feel free!

Also if you haven't gotten your fabric yet, feel free to contact me, and I can look at the website and see who your partner was, and contact them. Likewise, if you're in Canada or the US, and you are one of the people that has TOO MUCH fabric, and you are up for putting together a second fabric bundle to send to somebody whose fabric buddy is AWOL, please let me know... I still have one person who hasn't even looked at the name of their fabric swap buddy, so needless to say, they haven't sent off any fabric to that person either 😢

SO, ONTO THE FABRIC PICS!

This one is from Liz, who's in Canada, where we were (at the time of her emailing me this) still experiencing a postal strike, so she took a pic of her own fabric bundle, nicely wrapped up and ready to send to her secret swapper whenever the strike is over (which it is now, so I hope it's arrived safe and sound)!!

 

Anita D. has been a busy bee - she has already made something (a bag for her referee husband) with some of the fabric she got from Sara! She writes that she'll be making a scrappy quilt with the rest, and that she's very pleased with my new stash additions!

Now don't feel like you too have to send finished product photos, but if you have already started in on a project with your swap fabric, I will of course be happy to post it here too!! 

 

Kaen "loves vibrant and rich colors, except for a lot of red" and received a lovely collection of scraps from Dawn. The scraps are displayed below in the groupings (mainly by color, it seems) in which they'll be used!

Theresa is in Austria, where they traditionally open Christmas gifts on the 24th (same here in Germany), so she only opened hers a couple days ago (but still in time to make this post 🥰). She writes "I love the idea of the fabric swap for christmas! It is such a nice way to get in touch with other craftsy people" and here are her photos:

Elisabeth in France writes, "I explained I have absolutely no fashion sense so any scraps patterns / colors would do (and I'm pretty pleased by the result!). I wanted coton scraps because I am a beginner and I don't know how to deal with tricky fabrics (RIP my jean skirt I couldn't save but it will be a whale pouch if I can manage ! (RIP the dead jean needles)).

I also gave other informations about the notions and turns out my secret Elf has the same sewing machine so she gave me the correct needles and more weapons to deal with complicate fabrics (have fear scraps of that bloody skirt !)

Thank you for the swap because I'm a crocheter at first, so I have a ton of yarns, but not a lot of scraps for patchwork. And I want to upcycle the ton of totebags from various brands I have and doesn't use because those totebags aren't practical, and I don't want to promote those brands. So now I'm pretty confident that I can make a beautiful upcycle totebag with a fabric lining with a ton of pockets and a zip !"

Here are the lovely scraps Elisabeth received:

Sharon, a fan of Natural hobbity colours fabrics, and who also likes cats, shabby chic, Nordic and Japanese, thanks her fabric swapper for their lovely package and postcard, and says she can't wait to use them.

Next, Anne in Denmark actually received these fabrics from Sharon (the previous person ^^)! She got "nice fabric for my own Bilbo robe, Christmas fabric for my gift bags, Bias binding, a couple of reused zippers (love this), beautiful sequins and lots of shiny christmas stickers. AND 3 adorable glitter whales. So cute"

And, to wrap it up, a very cheerful and heartwarming continuation of the Shannon Makes fan club: Aussie edition... all four of them did manage to connect via Zoom, they're doing monthly meet-ups, and they've already had their first one, so here's Elaine, Dianne, Gillian, and Isobel!!

 
Have a wonderful and relaxing day, I hope to get the next bonus video out for New Years, but like I mentioned, our show schedule is a bit heavy at the moment, and sometimes our backstage downtime is just spent napping, so cross your fingers!!!