Well, it's been a week of posting! Hooray me {party poppers spraying streamers around the room!}
Take a look at this sweet package that arrived after Christmas! Isn't it wrapped so nicely!
Since the awesome success of the Op Shop Swap Swap I participated in back in November (and got Lotti, thanks Lotti!), I decided that swaps are heaps of fun and I'm going to participate in more swaps! Yvette encouraged me to join the Vintage Sheet Swap that Mardi from The Love Supreme was hosting, so I got my Op Shop self into mode and
went on the hunt for Vintage Sheets! I do love all things retro and I'm pleased to say I got quite a sweet little collection of sheets together to send off. My phone is being a pain in the butt so it wont let me download a pic of the sheets I sent, so I'll have to leave that for another time. But here are pics of what I got back! Aren't they all so pretty! What a sweet little pile of squares! I sent 72 in total, and Mardi had the unenviable job of compiling all the squares, diving them up and sending them back to us. She did such an amazing job cos I don't think I even got one of my own squares back, and I only got two doubles! What a mammoth task!
So in this swap the idea was to cut your sheets into 6x6 inch squares to swap, which could then be sewn into a quilt-top and you back the quilt with another vintage sheet. Mardi scored pay-dirt this year when she came across a Vintage Sheet Quilt already made up at the Op Shop (awesome score!) and she wanted us all to get enjoyment out of a Vintage Sheet Quilt like she has! I decided I'll make a "Lounge Quilt", not a bed quilt, cos I do love snuggling up 
under a doona when I watch TV on the lounge in winter, and I know I would get lots of enjoyment out of a Lounge Quilt that is made from Vintage Sheets! I still haven't decided the size, I use a single bed doona at the moment, but I might make more of a square shape for the Vintage Quilt.The last pic shows some of my fave's from the swap. Isn't the mushroom one cute! Yvette even got an awesome Snow White square. It's totally beautiful {swoon!} I've never seen a cute vintage sheet like that one!
So I'm really keen to get sewing and put together a gorgeous Vintage Sheet Quilt! Mum is gonna have to help me when I get to the batting and backing (thanks Mum {hugs!}) as I've never completed a Quilt before, but in the mean-time, I'm pretty sure I've got 'sewing the squares together' in the bag!
:) C
Edited to add:Ah Ha! My computer bent to my will! Here are some of the sheets I sent, I had a few others but these were within reach! Me likey! Did you get any of my squares?
