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

Magic Yarn Swap

I am participating in a "Magic ball swap" in The Netherlands. You hand-make (at least) 1 knitting related gift, get some more small presents, with a total value between 15 and 20 euro's, get a ball or skein of yarn and wrap all those presents into one a big ball of yarn.

You sent it to your recipient, anonymously, and she (or he) will find all the gifts while she (or he) starts knitting with the yarn.

Yesterday I received mine:

I can hardly wait to start knitting, but first I need to start some cross stitching swaps.

Anyway: Thank you very much, secret Magic ball partner.. I already like the smell that's coming out of the package and the colour of the yarn is very pretty, dark green. I love it.

Fair and square round #7

My first round from the Fair and Square swapping blog. My partner was Michele from the USA and she stitched me 2 beautiful squares:


And a close up:


Thank you very much Michele I realy like them!

Secret LHN-exchange from Joan S.

Time for some nice news now. I received my secret LHN-exchange yesterday. Thank you soooooooooooooooooo very much Joan. You did spoil me very much.

Look what she sent me:


LHN stands for Little House of Needleworks, one of my favourite cross stitch designers.

This is what Joan has stitched for me:

Here's a detail of the French knots she stitched the sheep with:

Isn't this the best thing ever???
I truly like it a lot.