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Embroidered Tea Towel Round Robin

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Swap Coordinator:SweetClementine (contact)
Swap categories: Games  Handmade  Embroidery 
Number of people in swap:4
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:February 19, 2010
Date items must be sent by:March 13, 2010
Number of swap partners:3
Description:

This is a private swap for an embroidered tea towel round robin. This is a preliminary swap description. Please post your comments below, and we can tailor the swap to meet everyone's preferences.

We will each purchase our own kitchen towel that will be sent around for each member to embroider on. I don't think we need to specify how much space we each embroider, etc., since we're all good swappers and I don't think quality will be an issue!

If you want your towel to have a particular theme, please specify it. You may start your towel on its way by embroidering your own piece on it first, or post your theme request in the swap comments below.

If you would like the embroidery to be sender's choice, then feel free to send your towel BLANK to your first partner. If your towel goes missing in the mail, then you will at least not have invested your time into embroidering the towel yet.

How about we allow 2 weeks maximum to work on each towel? Post in the swap comments each time you receive a towel, and post again when you mail it out. Let's also take photos of the incoming & outgoing towel. I would suggest that we don't post the photos ahead of time so that the finished product is a surprise, but it's always smart to have photo back up in case something happens to the swap!

You may click on SENT when you send out your first towel. We will all rate one another when we receive our towels at the end. If for some reason one of the towels gets lost on its way, we could still rate any of the participating members based on photographs. I suggest that we are generous with our ratings for those who took time to hand craft something just for us!

We will send in this order:

@nicc79 to
@kari to
@julief to
@sweetclementine to
@nicc79

Let's post our towels in a zip-top, plastic bag to protect it against any postal spills. You might also consider labeling the plastic baggie with your address. If it comes out of the envelope during mailing, it still will have a chance of finding its way home. Let's also agree to post our towels with a sturdy packaging method (bubble mailers, Tyvek envelopes, or a box, NOT a manilla envelope that might be easily ripped).

How should we go about letting the recipient of the towel know who did each part of the work? Do we want to each include a little note to each person that will be included with the towel (so that the towel will come home with three notes/letters)?

Are there any other elements that we need to cover? Please post your suggestions below. I'm totally flexible on everything and am really looking forward to this fun swap! :-)

Discussion

julief 02/19/2010 #

I think it's a nice idea to each include a note/letter. Maybe we could put them all in a ziplock bag or something?

Really looking forward to this swap! Thanks for hosting it @SweetClementine

SweetClementine 02/19/2010 #

Thanks for the reminder, Julie! I had actually meant to go back and add to put the towels in a plastic bag in case the package gets wet or whatever...and then I forgot. I'll add that in now. :-)

Nicc79 02/19/2010 #

I'm excited :) - sounds like you covered it all.

SweetClementine 02/20/2010 #

Partners have been "assigned", and you may post your towel to the person listed in the swap description as your "to" person. Towels should be sent by March 6, but sooner is fine! You may send your towel blank or embroider your first design to set the tone.

If you plan to have a theme or color preference with your towel, please post it in the swap comments as soon as you can. That will allow everyone time to start locating a design that will suit you.

If you're looking for inspiration, I found a Tea Towel Tour pool on Flickr. Some of them are AMAZING!

Happy swapping! This is so exciting. :-)

SweetClementine 03/ 2/2010 #

I've bumped the send date by a week to March 13. I hope that will allow enough time for everyone to find a good towel to start with. Who would have known they were so hard to find?! :-)

julief 03/ 3/2010 #

Thanks for pushing it back, SweetClementine!

julief 03/16/2010 #

Received kari's towel!

Nicc79 03/27/2010 #

I received Sweetclementine Towel on Friday i will be have it ready to go in two weeks :D

julief 03/27/2010 #

Going to post Kari's Towel to SweetClementine this afternoon :)

kari 03/29/2010 #

I received Nicc's towel on Friday - I'm going to start it today! :-)

SweetClementine 04/ 8/2010 #

I'm still stitching away on @JulieF 's towel. I hope to have it ready to mail out to @Nicc79 by Saturday, April 10. If not, then it will go in Monday's mail.

Nicc79 04/11/2010 #

I'm busy stitching sweetclementine Towel, Will have it out on Tuesday 13/4/10. :)

Nicc79 04/13/2010 #

Sorry guys i going to have to send this out on Thursday 15/4, bit short on funds this week, as got a huge bill i didn't expect that had to be paid, i get paid again on thursday. Sorry again for beening a tad late. It shouldn't happening again.

SweetClementine 04/14/2010 #

No problem, Nikki. :-)

Julie's towel is on its way from me to Nicc79. I've emailed pictures so you know what to expect.

SweetClementine 04/16/2010 #

Kari's towel arrived here from Julie. It's looking great!

Nicc79 05/10/2010 #

I have Julie's Teatowel and it will be on the way to Kari on Monday 17/5/10

Nicc79 07/11/2010 #

I have almost finished Kari's tea towel and it will leave here on Tuesday the 13/7. It looks Fantastic!!

How is everyone else going??

Nicc79 07/12/2010 #

Kari teatowel has been posted home!! - YAY!

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