It took a couple days to find the time. Yes, I had PLENTY of Christmas fabric. I sliced my strips & was stuffing envelopes then it was pointed out to me that one of my Christmas strips was actually a Chanukah strip. So I ended up sending out a baker's 1/2 dozen. & I got all but one reciprocal set, seven of them before the deadline even. I cannot help it, this irks me. I know, I know life gets in the way. but 20% of the participants are late & another 10% are never going to show. I enjoy it when I don't have to be in charge of a swap & I enjoy it when the way our group's swaps are handled are reaffirmed. I am snarky that way. Oh & 10% of the strips that got here on time were the wrong width. Which means that there was a problem with 40% of the swap sets. Yea, I have no plans to do this again. For a while, anyhow.
So now I have these strips & I am thinking it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. & this year I am really in the mood for it, despite all the bitching about swaps gone wrong. & now I get to decide on a pattern. Any thoughts?
Swapping can be bittersweet–I was just thinking the same when I pulled out the bear claw blocks and put them on my design wall. It was a Birthday Block swap that ran a whole calendar year and I should have ended up with 12 blocks, but only have 9 ... the downside, I suppose, to having a birthday later in the year. I made blocks for everyone, but everyone didn't reciprocate. Sigh ...
ReplyDeleteWhen I looked at your strips, I saw log cabin blocks.