Swapping things

When I went through my camera getting inspiration for my last post I realised that I had a couple of 'swappy' things that I hadn't shared yet.
Tatyana showed her thimble collection in a post and after I commented on the (great) size of it we decided to swap thimbles.
My collection is still very small as I only started collecting when I went to America earlier this year. (I was actually buying a thimble gift for a friend and decided they would be a cool thing to collect myself!!) I've decided just to collect from places I've been to; luckily I have spent 24 hours in Brisbane, on my way to visit my son in Queensland, so a swap with Tatyana was quite acceptable!!

I've also sent Siggy blocks to several people overseas.... when I realised that Jeanneke didn't have one single New Zealand one in her (vast) collection, I offered to send her one. Then Donna (no blog) asked to swap and Marga and I have also swapped. Marga's for me is still on it's way to New Zealand but mine to her has safely arrived in the Netherlands.
All three I have sent off have been the same design, although Marga's had a 3-D effect... I forgot to cut my stitchery on-point; you can just see on the photo below where I appliqued the centre to the background!

And a post about swapping just has to mention my recent postcard swapping passion. I participated in Sheila's postcard swap and was tickled to be paired with (the same) Jeanneke. We originally got to know each other through the 365-day photo challenge we did last year.

This is the gorgeous x-stitch postcard made by Jeanneke.

I sent this postcard to Jeanneke.

The theme for this swap was Autumn and what a giggle that we both had a similar inspiration!!

(I saw the pattern I used for my apple on Staci's blog, the confused quilter. She had made the cutest little pumpkins, but my mind's eye saw an apple instead. I was pleased to have a chance to try it out! The pattern for the pumpkin (easy foundation piecing) is found here, I decreased the size to make it suitable for a postcard.

JoAnne, the Patriotic Quilter, and I have also swapped postcards.

Beautiful Fall/Autumn theme. JoAnne posted hers in a
cellophane envelope so it arrived in pristine condition.

I was still in my Kowhai mode so JoAnne received a spring one from me!

We recently had the MOML's nephew staying for a few days. He wanted a farm holiday so had lots of fun with the animals.....

...and got hooked on sewing. He spent his last 20 hours with us in a frenzy sewing postcards to send to his family and friends. He told me about 100 times how much he was enjoying sewing. He went through my scraps and took a bag home with him; hopefully he can use his sister's sewing machine to make more postcards :-)

Tonight, as the third Friday night of the month, is Friday Night Sew In. I've signed up with Wendy to join in. Now to have a little think and see what I will be doing :-)
Thank you for visiting, happy stitching and have a lovely day,