My package to Jennifer had a skein of yarn and a pattern for a pair of crochet mittens (I happen to know she has made something even nicer with it to decorate her home...)...
2 handmade stitch markers, using some beads I bought in Sweden when I was 11 (my first trip away from home by myself) and some I had handmade by a glass artist in Falmouth (Cornwall) for my first project in art college. The 2 little square mother-of-pearl buttons were from my button box.
This necklace is sister to one I made myself and shares beads from a favourite fair trade necklace that had broken beyond repair...it seemed appropriate for TWO to be made from the one.
This bunting was made to CELEBRATE, we love to have bunting up and it is always hung across the kitchen for any special occasion....I used some special fabrics from my stash...
This little tin came with some sewing cotton but I thought it was the perfect container for two pretty sewing silks, two painted stones from the beach and of course two felted acorns!
Great minds think alike - 2 acorns travelled in this direction and 2 acorns travelled in that....
There were a few more little bits and pieces and then to wrap it all up I made this patchwork square....my first and a little wonky (yes Anne - this is the one I referred to!) It is backed in a felted wool jumper and I thought it might make a good potholder or just in-case I added a couple of tabs that Jennifer could sew on if she wanted to hang it. The quote I stitched in the centre says....
"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends."
- Mary Catherwood
and that sums up how it has been with Jennifer and I all along, old friends. Thank you again to all of you who took part and made this such a special celebration for me....are you up for another one next year? I hope so...start thinking in threes.....
