@susieoregon the garland is beautiful! And all the color changes! With the singular blue! I see the one with just a trim of peach on yellow, as well. And little baby acorns! Squee! Really great work, SO!
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Oh, wow! The leaf garland from @susieoregon and the sewing machine cover you made are both absolutely lovely!!! Being able to tuck the cover under the machine to use the pockets while sewing is wonderfully clever, and I love all the color changes worked into the crocheted leaves. 
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I got a surprise from @edel!
Happy mail unexpected but greatly appreciated! To be honest, I think she was cleaning out her house since she was moving and wanted to destash…ha ha ha…I don’t mind at all…so many goodies and I was having serious jealousy vibes over her hand printed Valentines…I love using the prints to make notebook covers…I have ideas already for them!
Thanks!
And look at these ATCS for my collection! One would have done it, but she sent 4!
Tea with cake…lol…I have been watching a lot of Brit Box and Acorn TV…this struck me as just so funny!
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Wow! So many goodies! What a treat to find in your mailbox! Also…happy birthday!! 
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What a special surprise! Happy birthday! 
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Happy Birthday! I didn’t know, so that was a happy accident.
Not destashing yet, that will come when I get all my craftroom properly packed. But one house contents will be fully moved, as of an hours time. Happy days!
Just have to pack the other one now. 
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What a fun thing to find in your mail! Happy birthday to you!!!
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Look what arrived. @AIMR bought me some fabric on Etsy, that I completely love (and is impossible to find any more) I was so excited to open this. And then I found even more vintagey fabric, 
and one of her wonderful crocheted hearts. Plus a sewing thing (whatever it’s called!)
Thank you so much XXX
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It is aptly named Purple Thang! lol
I swear everyone in the world had those sheets…I keep finding pieces of it in boxes as I unpack…I got all I could of the mushroom fabric…I hope somewhere it still exists…it is fun and fabulous…I know you will have a heart section in your home always, so any time I can, I will send a heart…
Happy Mail!
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I love seeing that you got your mushroom fabric. That original thread still makes me so happy. 
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I remember your hunt for this fabric! I love you have more, now!!
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You guys! This wasn’t even a personal swap, @Magpie just made and sent me the linen smock-frock of my dreams, out of nowhere!
Mother-of-pearl buttons. {Swoon}
I didn’t know anything about this until she sent me a message this morning saying it was scheduled for delivery today! It is so well made and full of loving care. And with Spring coming on strong this week, it’s perfect timing (though really, there is no season when I wouldn’t wear this. In fact I expect to wear it more days than not).
Huge thanks and hugs, you rock my world!
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wow…and pockets! It looks wonderful on you and yes, it was made with love!
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OMG. All the feels. It looks fantastic on you. What a thoughtful and generous gift.
Yay for spring!
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Ha ha, I started this for the Secret Santa swap, you listed the Verity Hope Smock as your “favorite article of clothing on the planet” and who could resist that? I just happened to have purchased the linen for another project I decided against, it was hot laundered and just sitting there waiting for your project. and I actually finished sewing it together at the end of November but got stymied by the hand bound button holes, they were really intimidating! I think it took more than a month before I could even bring myself to cut the slit for them, then another age before I got the nerve to hand bind. Thank you EVER so much to @thanate for encouraging me behind the scenes, she really bolstered my confidence and nerve chatting with me about the foibles of patterns and general stitchery.
Those buttons, how I love them. I have a jar of vintage shell buttons in all shapes and sizes. I’ve been making an effort to Use The Good Stuff so even the small pocket buttons are shell :).
I’m excited to see the fit on you, it looks GREAT! I didn’t know how it was going to hang as it’s so loose and you asked for “large” but I made the small! I tried the pattern out with a different fabric first and wasn’t in love with how it fit on my body or my Judy so there is some ease taken at the side seams where the binding is. I hand stitched the reverse so it would be a nice tight little roll and not splay out like can sometimes happen with binding on underarm seams. You look so wonderful it in, totally worth every stitch.
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It blows me away that YOU (queen of all-craft) were fretting, unbeknownst to me, over something for me. The whole universe conspires on our behalf, it seems!
It totally would have been fine to go buttonless, and I never would have known–But being you, you knew there was something magic about pairing these gorgeous buttons with a rustic style. I wish you hadn’t stressed, but your vision paid off!
It was no exaggeration, this really is my favorite garment on the planet (at least, of the garments I can get away with wearing in normal life), and it was the missing piece for my wardrobe! I have such a sense of aesthetic completeness wearing this right now, even though I’m just wearing it on top of the same old pajamas/loungewear in which I’ve spent the whole pandemic. 
I feel heartened to start my gardening projects!
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That’s so cute!!! Looks good on you @calluna 
What an awesome surprise from @Magpie!
Now you have me wondering if I could pull off the smock look 
I’ve given up all things skirty and dressy but the smock is so cute and I love that it is worn with pants! lol You’ve both given me something to think about now
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Wow…I’d say it looks like it was made for you, but it literally WAS!
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