A Friendly Exchange

I may have mentioned a time or two before that I love tatting exchanges. Recently, I participated in a spontaneous tatting exchange of a different sort.

The typical tatting exchange takes place when one tatter takes another tatter's tittle of tatting in exchange for a tidbit of the other tatter's tatting

(say that 5 times fast!~I think I just made up a new tongue twister, LOL).

Did you get all that??? This exchange was an atypical tatting exchange...I tatted for nontatted items...although they are tatting related.

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Confused?

Let me explain...

I have had the honor of

befriending through blogging a blogging buddy

(see, there I go again with the tongue twisters)

who not only tats,

she paints, carves wood, does woodburning art...

...you name it!
She is one fabulously talented lady.

You may have heard of her;

she is Tattycat

from Laura's Tatting Muse.

Not only is she talented,

she has been a warmhearted, supportive

friend through emails and blogging.

We decided to exchange some goodies one day.

I sent her some snowflakes I tatted in September

for these fabulous threadwinders!

What are threadwinders, you ask?

They are what you wind skeins of

HDT (hand dyed thread)

onto so you can tat with it.

She handpainted and/or woodburned them.

Aren't they beautiful?

Here is a darling butterfly and pretty bow that she painted.

Here are some beautiful handpainted and woodburned

daisy threadwinders that she did.

These next ones are beautiful butterflies with

artistically woodburned trees on them.

I call them

"Beau-Tree-Flies"!
They are exquisite!

BONUS!!!

She sent a hanky to sweeten the deal.

I can tat a sweet edging to go around it.

We calculated the time it took for our projects and

exchanged accordingly.

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Thanks for letting me show off my new goodies! They are sweet and sentimental items that I will not only cherish but be able to use with my most favorite hobby of tatting!

If you would like to see Laura's post on our exchange you can click here to read that, but don't forget to leave a comment and let me know what you think about these beautiful threadwinders she sent before you're off to visit her. I'd love to know what you have to say!

Sincerely,
~TattingChic