Swaps

The craft group enjoyed the Christmas pot mitt swap and I always enjoy swaps.  I  have organised a luggage tag swap for them for Jan/Feb and wrote my thoughts on swaps.

 

 

Swaps:

I think you need to go into any swap with the idea you may not get back the same as you give. For me I do swaps because I love to see other people’s interpretation on a theme. We each have different skill levels and some of us have higher standards of our own work. Sometimes I have received things that don’t meet my standard – what it has taught me is acceptance and appreciation. Someone has put their time and love into it and I need to receive it with love and appreciation without judgement. One challenge I did being mug rugs I did not receive mine at all but I had the opportunity of making the swap and then sharing that idea with others giving them a piece of fabric and a challenge to make a mug rug and the pleasure for me was seeing their creation.

Swaps give me

*a purpose

*a reason

*the chance to do something for someone else

*the chance to try something new – it maybe something you have done before that you can give a new slant to.