Anniversary Gifts .................
The NNC group celebrated the first anniversary beginning of the month. We had a small (but very noisy) party and brought along some stitching gifts to be entered in an exchange draw.
I picked these items made by Janet in the draw, a patchwork wall-hanging and crochet coasters. Janet does wonderful patchwork and quilting, something that I have not tried before and don't think I will any time soon. Thank you Janet for the lovely pieces.
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My contribution to the draw were these - three small doilies and a pin-cushion. The doilies are crocheted with size 20 thread, and the pincushion is tatted with Olympus Gold #40. The person who got my gifts is Mel, who had asked me to make the snowflakes in my earlier post.
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This is a close-up of the pincushion. The pattern is adapted from the book A New Approach to Tatting. The originally pattern is for a potpourri pouch, but I made a mistake somewhere and by the time I realised it, I don't feel like starting over. The only way out that I can see is to turn it into into a pincushion. I think I like the pincushion better, :-)
Here are a few other smalls I received. A beautitful cross-stitch hanging ornament form MW. A pretty and practical flower pincushion from June - it can be tied to the wrist. Two lovely crochet bookmarks from Usha, and another pin cushion from Nik.
A big thank you to everyone for a wonderful afternoon and especially to Nik for being such a gracious host.
I picked these items made by Janet in the draw, a patchwork wall-hanging and crochet coasters. Janet does wonderful patchwork and quilting, something that I have not tried before and don't think I will any time soon. Thank you Janet for the lovely pieces.
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FLRrcQg1qSI/Rzb_f3NKreI/AAAAAAAAAms/FnA1Zp-Vhmk/s400/From-Janet.jpg)
My contribution to the draw were these - three small doilies and a pin-cushion. The doilies are crocheted with size 20 thread, and the pincushion is tatted with Olympus Gold #40. The person who got my gifts is Mel, who had asked me to make the snowflakes in my earlier post.
![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FLRrcQg1qSI/RzcCT3NKrfI/AAAAAAAAAm0/7YQ7qiTId4k/s400/gifts-ex.jpg)
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Here are a few other smalls I received. A beautitful cross-stitch hanging ornament form MW. A pretty and practical flower pincushion from June - it can be tied to the wrist. Two lovely crochet bookmarks from Usha, and another pin cushion from Nik.
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So many pretty things. It looks like you all had great fun! The edging is very interesting. I have never seen anything joined that way. I can see that it does fill up the hole. Thank you for sharing that.
ReplyDeleteHi Faizon,
ReplyDeleteI chanced upon your blog from a link at Sitch Stash Store and I must say I love everything that u do! The workmanship is so neat and intricate!
We seem to have exactly the same hobbies. I crochet and tat but do not knit. Simply can't get my hands off these 2 crafts. I do have some pics of what I had done lately in my LiveJournal blog @ http://huizz.livejournal.com
Do u mind if I add a link to your blog at mine?
Cheers,
Huiz
Hello Huiz,
ReplyDeleteThank you for visiting.