Mug Rug a swap..

I had planned to share photos of the wonderful recreated rooms of Margaret Olley's house which is part of an exhibition at the Murwillimbah Art Gallery...but all the photos that I've taken over the last few days seem to be irretrievable. There appears to be some sort of 'reader error' and a bit of searching via Google seems to suggest I will have to find a Fuji dealer and hopefully they can help. Both DH and I took a lot of photos using my camera today as well as yesterday so there are a fair few that I hope can be saved. 

Any way here is my Plan B for a blog post; my partner in the recent Quilting Gallery mug rug swap has received my parcel so now I will 'unveil' what I sent to Kristen, who lives in New York State.

We had to make 2 mug rugs and when we signed up we received the patterns...'Cottage on the Hill' and 'Butterfly Cottage'...a mixture of embroidery, appliqué and patchwork.

I added a couple of extras to the parcel...'bits' of Australia....

A storybook for Kristen's son, some Cottage GardenThreads, and one of Nature's Face  cotton printed squares...with rainforest and a wallaby peeping out of the foliage...

I got a lovely message from Kristen after she got my parcel and I believe her little boy loves his book. He will learn so many Australian animal names from this book and it's lots of fun! 

Kristen has posted the mug rugs she has made for me, so pretty soon I will have the pleasure of opening up my parcel from her. The little glimpse of her stitching that I saw on the Facebook page of the swap, I reckon I'm getting some special mug rugs soon :-). 

A delightful surprise in the post...

Yesterday I got 2 beautiful mug rugs in the post. They came all the way from Norway! You might remember my post about making mug rugs for this swap and the ones I made, went to Canada.

I took this photo today after I'd opened the parcel so that explains that hole :-). I just had to show the paper that my the mug rugs were wrapped in. You see my swap buddy Marit, had checked out my blog and discovered that I rather love knitting, as she also does :-) I was rapt in this paper...(no pun intended)

Now Marit also used some fabric that was printed as though it was stocking stitch fabric...there were 2 sections of one mat that had this lovely fabric...here's one section...

And now, here are the lovely mug rugs...

Blogger 'insists' that this photo below, be rotated 90 degrees despite my best efforts...

Thank you very much Marit, I love my mug rugs and will use them with much pleasure.

Now I'm also in a year- long swap and for Easter, we were to make a candle mat or a gift bag...I've made a mug rug but I'm calling it a candle mat...I still have to put the binding on and then it's into the post for an Australian address.