exchanges received

Last week I received 2 of my exchanges.

First the HoE-Summer-Quaker-Exchange from Irmeli from Finland. She stitched me a beautiful notepad holder and sent a little pattern thats also a post card, some hand dyed thread and a piece of lovely linen to stitch on:

Here is a closer look at the notepad holder:

Bianca sent me a summer needleroll. A Dutch exchange from the "Borduurhoekje Yahoo group" (Borduurhoekje is best to be translated as a little stitching corner). Look what she made me:

Isn't this georgious??? The thread is over dyed cotton and soo pretty.

Thanks a lot girls, it made my day last week, when I had to go back to work again after almost 4 weeks of holidays :D