I am participating in a EtsyFAST promo swap. The idea being that I make and send 50 promotional items and business cards to the organizer, and get 50 promotional items and business cards from the other participants, which I can include in my outgoing orders to help promote their shops, and of course, they'll be promoting mine. So I had to come up with something I could make a lot of, in a relatively short amount of time.


Here we have 25 sets of stitch markers, in varying sizes and styles.


4 bracelets, knit with some of my handspun yarn


And 21 crocheted flower pins, also made from my handspun and/or hand-dyed yarn.

Only now I feel like the stitch markers may be too limiting, since they are not useful for those who crochet...so maybe I should just do more flowers? I really have to mail them by Friday at the latest, if they are going to get to their destination on time. What do you think I should do?

My Halloween swap partner received her goodies, so I thought I'd post some pics.

This is the graveyard jewelry box:


and inside:


A foam skull mobile:


Spiderweb candle holder (purchased from a thrift store and painted to look all pretty and stuff):


Crocheted slippers (these actually ended up fitting the recipient, which I was worried about, because they seemed so small, but she wears a size 5):


The "zombie attack" hoodie:


And a stenciled Jack tote bag:


Have I mentioned lately that I love Halloween?

Clearly, I have been on a stuffed animal kick, but this may be the last of them for a while, as I have other things I need to work on.

The deer is for me, and has joined my other animals at work:



I recently received 2 books of patterns for crocheted animals, so of course, I needed to test it out. And someone on craftster saw a pic of the bunny which I received and asked if I could make her one. So here is my first amigurumi bunny...though probably not my last.


He is stylin' in his hat and scarf, huh? He needs a name before I send him off to his new home, and suggestions are welcome.

And a side view, so you can see his little tail:

I've received some cute things in the mail recently and thought I would share.

First off, I received a ton of fun stuff from my Knit/Crochet Goodie Bag partner:




Fun fabrics!


Yarn and kool-aid!


Crochet books and an amigurumi bunny.

And now, here is the bunny in his new home at my desk at work:


Clearly, I have a problem.



Other new stuffies include Tofu-kun and Armless Ninja (the silly white block of tofu on the left, with the ninja on top of him). I love their big eyes. So cute.

As promised, here is a picture of the ( finished afghan )