marmot

I am so behind. Lately the craziness of the holidays, some personal drama and some family things have all conspired to make my life a little harder than normal. Add to that that I anticipated none of it and signed up for a huge amount of swaps before it all hapened and you have swap-bot catastrophe. So far everyone has been incredibly understanding. I still owe a couple of overdue swaps and tags, some ratings and a lot of thank yous. I'm trying my best to get it under control & I just want to thank everyone for their kind words, patience & understanding.

• If I owe you a swap: I am so sorry & I am working really hard to get it to you.
• If I owe you a tag: I'm sorry about the delay, please drop me a line to remind me, I've lost my list of who I still owe.
• If you have sent me something: I probably owe you a big thank you. I'm trying to sort through my mail & contact everyone but I am behind. Please don't think that I'm not grateful, I'm just overwhelmed

If you post a comment about me being late I will leave it up for a bit because I feel it's fair that people see your comments but I'm going to take it down as soon as this situation is rectified or I will get depressed looking at all my mistakes. Please don't take it personally.

I'm 22 year old art student, studying to be an illustrator and book artist. I lived in the maritimes for the past 3 years, going to NSCAD U but I am getting pretty sick of snow. So now I'm back home in BC spending my days crafting, reading books from my childhood and puting off working on my zine.

I love knitting and crochet, especially hats and amigurumi, embroidery, needle felting, book binding and drawing. I'm trying to learn how to sew on a machine. I can throw and sculpt a bit but don't have studio space at the moment. I am horrible at photography. I like re-using thrifted/found/discovered-in-the-back-of-my-closet materials whenever I can, especially images from vintage kids' books, old pillow cases and ephemera.

In pretty much all cases I would prefer something handmade or vintage over something new from the store. In no particular order:

• Vintage looking fabric
• sewing patterns from the sixties & earlier
• pink and red and mint green together
• books: new, used, children's
• Klimt
• Hand made plushies
• forrest animals (owls, deer, raccoons, bears, squirrels, moths)
• ric rac
• religious iconography (everything from Catholic Saints to Hindu Gods)
• perzines
• altered books
• kelly, chatreuse, mint, and light lime green
• art journals
• hand bound books
• creepy vintage animal statues,
• felt
• fair trade coffee
• stickers
• oranges
• kitsch,
• non-brand name kawaii
• all things Moomin.
• sideshows
• Burlesque
• sailors
• nautical stuff
• teeth
• chatreuse, light lime green that's almost yellow, aqua

• chenile

  I am currently really loving the colours/themes aesthetics of Michael Miller, Amy Butler and Echino fabrics.

Nothing made out of animals, wool is ok but no leather/rawhide, feathers and candies with gelatin(e), basically if you have to kill an animal to get it, please do not send it to me. No frilly/folksy/american country crafts.

Thanks :)

I love Moomin but cannot get anything but Moomin cookies & comics here. If you send anything my way you will be my hero.

Plushies handmade by you would be so special and dear to me!

Wool felt made from old sweaters would be lovely, as would patterned vintage pillow cases.

Anything Narwhal related. Oh man.

Wood grain fabric. even scraps would be lovely.

I am currently making my very first quilt. It's going to be a crazy quilt and will probably by either just a lap quilt of morph into an art quilt. The colourway (do quilters say that of is it just knitters?) will be burgundy, red, orange, pink, yellow and brown (it's an autumn theme quilt). If you send me patterned cotton fabric, even small scraps, in these colours I will love you forever!!!!

I'm looking for people in good standing to do private swaps around any of the themes listed above. If you love what I love pm me and maybe we can work something out. :)

I'm still working on:

• tee shirt to hoppyloo
• zine to Tryph
• kawaii stationary set to oregonmeadows
• felt fruits for doslittlemonkeys
• a bird themed lucky parcel for magic jessnrach in the lucky parcel forum pif
• surprise illustration for Kelli in the fabric art divas I'm really good at tag

I'm checking my mailbox anxiously for:

• some thing crafty from the crafty pay it back tag
• a themed envie from the themed envie pib
• an altered bottle cap for a crafty tag
• an art quilt in the fad i'm good at tag

All of my other tags have been sent out and I would love to know when you receive them.

I am obsessed with finding these fabrics. I love them so much and want them for my quilt but I cannot find them anywhere in Vancouver. If you have access to these fabrics please PM me so we can work out some sort of trade.

• alexander henry 'bird seed' fabric in pink
• heather ross mermaid fabric in blush
• joel dewberry woodgrain fabric in chocolate brown
• anna maria horner garden party social fabric in ice