This year I signed up for the artist trading card birthday swap on
stitchin fingers and this first one that I received came from Annette in New Zealand. It is called "yellow experiment" and Annette described it as an international piece as the fabric was dyed in Tennessee using local native plants, the wool was dyed using NZ plants & stitched by Annette who is an Australian living in NZ & sent to me in Canada. Wow - the materials in this delightful atc sure have covered a lot of ground!! Thank you very much Annette! It's a treasure :)
My 2nd birthday atc came from Eileen in Buckinghamshire, England. The poppies and grass look like they were free-form machine stitched and framed by a piece of felt. It is so nicely done and of course I love poppies!! Eileen also generously included a pkg of silk embroidery thread in her card. Thank you very much Eileen :)
A closer view to see the machine stitching.
How very international your birthday ATCs are. Lovely and true hand made treasures.
ReplyDeleteI love this aspect of artist trading cards! First of course that they're creative works of art and handmade but also that this swap is so international. :)
DeleteI hope you had a nice birthday. The ATC's are very pretty, I also have a yellow experiment. It's very international!
ReplyDeleteHad a really nice birthday, thanks :) Neat to know that you also have a yellow experiment atc.
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