Linking up to the fun of Drowning in Fabric, Saturday Swaps. 

Swaps that are still open:
The 8² European Fabric Swap (hosted by me) - more details can be found here on my blog, or hop on over to Flickr.

The Summer Vacation Swap - pretty colors.

The Fabric Scrap Swap - deadline to join is July 18th.

The Secret Tote Bag Swap - this round is making a Noodlehead 241 pattern, deadline to join July 19th.

Super Swaps-August Swap - swapping pouches or fabric baskets, deadline to sign up is July 30th.


I received this lovely swap package on Friday from Capi. for the English Paper Patchwork Supplies Swap.

the extra's a mini "Winter Wonderland" charm pack, handmade ribbon, 3/4" hexies

A whole stack of fabric scraps

Love these cute little postage stamp sized pieces.

Lots of lovely Christmas fabrics

She sent the tape measure to match my new bag, I love it, now I will be shopping in style.

 This tape measure is really, really nice, it has inches on one side and cm on the other, when you pull it out, it stays out, to pull it back in, you push the button down and it rolls in on itself.  I go to the haberdashery shop all the time with my big ol' tape measure that it all over the place and since my patterns are in inches I am always figuring out what size of zipper I need, this will come in so handy and be so pretty too, hope my daughter doesn't find it :)

She sells these tape measures in her shop, it is awesome!

 She was spot on, I asked for some Christmas fabric and she sent me a whole bunch.  I can't wait to do some redwork embroidery with the Winter Wonderland mini charm pack.
My partner also got her little stack of scraps.

I am now working on my Big Stitch Swap present, my partner has really different taste than from me, so it is a fun challenge in making this, I love it.  I don't want to show much, because her taste are very specific.
The embroidery here is supposed to depict air, what do you think?  to much, should I rip it out?  or add more?

I also just got my partner for the Strawberry swap, and I thought I would pick up something super sweet for her, I am in the process of buying some Liberty Tana Lawn fabric, yippee!!  I am ordering from Ali of Very Berry Handmade (sounds like a good shop to pick up some Strawberry fabric).  She has a shop on Etsy and also on Folksy.
Speaking of Liberty if you want large amounts of it, Massdrop is having a Liberty Tana Lawn drop and you can get some extras with your purchase, like 3 spools of Aurifil.

I also posted a poll for buying BOLTS of fabric, for like the background of your quilts when you need large amounts of the stuff, especially with Modern quilts, you can check out the poll here.

I am so excited to start a European fabric swap group.  You can join at any time and participate in any swap you are interested in.  This is mostly for European's but anyone is welcome to join, especially after you hear that I got 2, that's 2 shops to sponsor the swap with discounts to both.

First the Rules, I am not very good at writing rules but here goes, (I have taken some of the wording from the American based F8 swap group put together by Laurel)

1. Each swap is run in groups of 8. Each person may sign up for one or two groups (interest permitting) You will buy one yard (or a little more to be safe) of each of the specified amount of fabric designs (to be described in the swap group) and cut into eighths approx. 11x18. I have chosen this size instead of a regular 9x22 eighth because even with shrinkage, you may still yield a 10x10 and/or several 5x5 charms.
2. Please remove selvages, measurements are approximate due to selvage removal, fabric width, and seller cutting. Try to cut straight and measure correctly.
   Each group will send and receive 8 F8s per yard, plus 8 brick sized charms
   Please do send all 8 F8th pieces to me plus the extra 8 brick charms - you will get back one of your own per design for the F8th but will recieve 8 different designs other than the one you sent in of the brick charm.
   Please reference this picture for cutting your F8: 
   
3. Fabric info: Fabric should be quilt shop quality 100% cotton fabric. For each swap, I will get a shop to give us a discount.  If you already have the fabric in your stash, or if you get your designer fabric for $5 clearance, good for you! But don’t buy the cheap stuff, y’know? We want to trade the same quality. Do not prewash. Do iron.
4. Mailing info: Mail to me deadline is announced when groups fill - date is usually 2-3 weeks after filling. I will send out an email to all participants with my address and further instructions and the discount codes when full.  If you do not have that month's theme in your stash and wish to purchase only 1 yard of fabric and not a whole package of fabric from a shop, send a communication with me and I will purchase the fabric and have it sent directly to my house and cut it for you.  I will paypal the invoice to you of the cost of the fabric, plus the divided cost of the shipping and the cost of shipping of all the fabric back to you.  The cost of the 8² groups fabric to a European destination is 3.30Euro, you can pay this either by paypal or if you want to tuck in the coins with the fabric you send, you can also do that ;)  If you join more than one group of 8² the shipping cost from Greece to you goes to 6.30Euro's.
5. Sorting and packaging info: Please place your fabric in ziplock bags or wrap in cellophane plastic. If you are signed up for two groups put each group in its own separate ziplock/cellophane plastic. Please also include a card or sticky note (I write it right on the plastic bag)  your name, address, and flickr name.    If you are in two groups, please get a different set of fabric for each group, as I can’t guarantee you won’t have some of the same people in both groups. I don’t personally care about duplicates, but others do. Please post photos of your fabric choices and/or list your fabric selections within your group to avoid duplicates and/or see what you are getting. Similarly, though I am doing everything I can to avoid duplicates, I can not guarantee there won't be some. Sorry. 
6. PLEASE only sign up if you can follow through. 

You can go here to fill out the form and also pop on over to the Flickr page that I set up to put your name down.  Either way you do not have to commit to each swap, I will contact you to see which swap you are interested in.  The first swap will be for Text fabrics, the second for Low Volume.
  

I want to post this but will add more later, the kids.