I really enjoy handmade things, and I am always up for a craft swap with someone. I’m open to trades for other handmade items, which can be especially fun! Last year a status made its way around facebook, promising that the individual would make something handmade for the first five people who commented on said status and send it to them throughout the year. I made this my status, as well as commented on 3-4 other status to receive something back.
Every single person forgot. Including me. I was reminded sometime in December, and finally sent my handmade coasters and bookmarks out in January 2012. Although I was late, I had SO much fun putting these packages together, it was truly gratifying. Instead of using facebook this year, I thought I might have a wider reach (and, ahem, memory) if I invited people to link up on my blog.
This initial post is mostly to gauge interest, as well as gather some suggestions from others. Here are some of my thoughts:
-create something handmade to send to (currently unknown) number of people perhaps quarterly? I could set up reminders via email.
-if you also have a blog and would like to pose this swap to your followers, I will link all participating blogs in the next post, outlining and clarifying how we’ll make this thing work.
-to ensure this really is a “exchange”, the initial poster (in this case, me) sends something handmade to the first 5 people who comment on the post. The first commenter sends something to the 5 people below them, and so on. When there are only 4 comments below, that person sends something to those 4 people and to me. 3 comments below would send to those 3, me, and the first commenter.
-I will definitely post how that works out once the comments are gathered so there is no confusion!
-I’ll collect addresses and information via my email: punkrockpigtails@gmail.com and distribute them via email as well, that way we aren’t putting our addresses on the internets.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Want to participate? Comment or send me an email!
I’m so stoked! xo!
February 1st, 2012 at 8:27 pm
I can’t wait, and I love the idea of having a reminder, LOL! I am forgetful, but I love the idea of sharing crafts with other people, and I think that this may get me away from just using yarn!!!
CAN’T WAIT!
All my info is: OneOfTheHive on Ravelry and Twitter (and that’s my gmail address) and my facebook account is OneOfTheHiveKnits
February 1st, 2012 at 9:08 pm
This sounds like fun – I’d love to participate! 🙂
February 2nd, 2012 at 12:25 pm
Hey Erin — great idea! I’d love to participate but I’d definitely need some gentle reminders and some real deadlines – I’m totally a forgetter! 🙂
February 2nd, 2012 at 1:21 pm
I’m a TOTAL forgetter. I figure if it’s my blog there’s no way I’ll forget, so I’ll send out emails every now and then 😉
February 2nd, 2012 at 2:30 pm
This sounds like fun. I’d love to participate.
February 7th, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Thanks everyone who wants to participate! I’m excited to get started and hear some of your ideas as well!! I’ll leave this open for additional people who want to participate until Friday 2/10, and then we can get going. If it remains the 5 of us here, we can simply send something handmade to the other 4 participants, sound good? 🙂
February 11th, 2012 at 12:18 am
I would like to join in 🙂 if it isn’t too late. I know you said the 10th so hopefully it is still open.
February 11th, 2012 at 2:04 pm
Yup! The more the merrier, I figure I’ll send out an email Monday to get started 🙂
August 18th, 2012 at 9:01 pm
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