Take a look at these items I received from a Jane Austen swap at Craftster. They are a one-project knitting bag, 2 skeins of handspun yarn (alpaca and lamb’s wool), and a hand made silk scarf. Now I can pretend like I am one of the characters in Pride and Prejudice. Don’t worry–I won’t try to be the bratty runaway daughter. Lydia.
I just participated in an Earth Day swap at craftster.org (I made the recycled sweater bags). This is what I received in the mail from my partner, Kristina, today.
She crocheted me a bag out of plastic bags that she cut up to use as yarn. (This takes a long time–believe me, I’ve tried it!). She also sent me some really soft recycled red yarn. The last item is a little kit that contains directions how to decorate, cook, and shrink the styrofoam from those containers they give you at restaurants to take your food home in. So cool!
I learned how to embroider a bit recently and here are a few of my efforts on some handkerchiefs
These bags are made from felted recycled sweaters that I washed in hot water and then dried to shrink them more, and then cut up. My mom sewed them up for me on her sewing machine (since I have no machine and don’t know how to sew well). I then embroidered them with thread I have for another swap project. These were made for an Earth Day swap at craftster so they were supposed to be from recycled/reused materials. The larger one was meant to be a re-usable shopping bag and the smaller one could be a purse or something.
