This will be so much fun!

I just ordered a couple of pattern books this week so when they come in I'll pick a "me" project and let you know.... This is such a great idea!!

I am SO ON THIS!

Juli! Thanks so much for setting this up. This is way too cool for words I gotta tell you. My family more than me is always telling me when I am wrapping up someone's package, you mean you didn't make that for us? or you? or the house? or whatever fits?!?!

So this is right up my alley!

I have already picked out a pattern - I have been OOGLING it for ages, and what is funny is that I have shown this pattern to so many different swap partners just HOPING they would say, yeah KnicKnac, make that for me ... just so that I could make it and see how it looks in person. Well, I am going to make it for me!!!

Here ya go!

Creole Purse

So I guess my first thing to do is order the yarn and the handle, because quite frankly, I want it to look exactly like that!

KnicKnac

The basics!!

THE UN-SWAP!!

Here's the 411.....

As knitters and crocheters (or any crafts!), we all have project ideas that we'd love for ourselves.....but we never quite seem to find time to make them. "Oh, once I'm done with this purse for xxxx, I'm going to make those socks in that yarn I love....'' And, it never happens. Or, how many purses have you felted, but you've been using the same bag for 2 years yourself. Or how many times have you found a yarn you absolutely love.....and you buy several skeins of it, only to send it to someone else.

This swap, or Un-swap actually, is an excuse to FINALLY get around to projects that you want to make for yourself! There is no deadline, no pressure, no minimum requirements, no postage costs, no waiting in post office lines.....and no buying fancy yarn and spending hours making something gorgeous just to put it in a box and ship it off to someone else.....

This project's for YOU baby!!!

Pick out a project , or that special yarn you've been dying to try, or even the new needles/hooks/notions you've been eyeing......and work on something for yourself! Pamper yourself!!

The only requirement for this group is that you post to the blog regularly -- talk about what you're making, post pictures of the pattern, yarn, etc that you're using.......heck, share anything! Let us oooooh and ahhhhhh over it! :) You can also use the group for pattern questions, color suggestions, chit-chat about crafts or life in general....just have fun! And when you finish one project, feel free to start another one! :)

The only no-nos are: please no bad language.....use &*%$ instead. lol. And the usual politeness etiquette please. We all know how to behave. If you need to call someone an idiot for not liking alpaca.....please do so by email. :)

Hugs! Juli

The Un-Swap!!

Do you participate in a lot of crafting exchanges.....always making gorgeous things for others, but never quite getting around to making nice things for yourself??? Or do you always buy those fancy yarns to send out in swaps, but never splurge on yourself? And extra goodies.....lip gloss, handmade soaps, lotions, yarn, needles......how many boxes of really cool stuff have we sent out to others, but how many of us have actually pampered ourselves once in awhile??

Well......you ought to try the UNSWAP!!

In this exchange....you buy the neat yarn you've been eyeing, that one gorgeous pattern you've been thinking about, the needles/hooks you've been dying to try, the cool extra goodies......and you DONT SEND THEM TO ANYONE! You keep them yourself, share photos of your project and chit-chat about how much fun you're having.....and at the end, it's all YOURS baby! No postage. No late senders. No bad swappers. No stress.

All the fun -- and none of the calories....or...um.....problems, rather. :)

This group is about making friends and sharing about what you're making......and then, giving yourself the enjoyment of the finished product.

Sure.....it's really a KAL/CAL in diguise....but it feels more fun when it's called an "unswap.'' It's sort of like an Un-birthday!

As they sang in Alice in Wonderland (sort of) ..... A very merry unswap to you, to you.....a very merry unswap to you and you and you! :)

To join the Unswap, please email me at juliwyant [at] bellsouth [dot] net with the following information: Name, email address for group mail, blog address. You will be sent an invitation to join the swap blog so that you can post to the group site.

The first Un-swap is still in the planning stages.......as soon as we have a big enough group of members we start NOT swapping!! :)

This should be fun!