Charms and atc's......

Today, I have been making fabric charms...I have a ton of them to do, since I signed up for several swaps on several groups.. I should be a pro at the end, but we will see..They are time consuming little buggers! I can make an atc super fast so I thought these would go fast too! WRONG! I am showing a picture of a group of red ones...For the swap on "Fabric atc's 1 to 1" I am making several kinds and sizes...they can be from 1" to 1.5"s. I also made some white and gold and some stuffed little word pillow ones like in the new issue of "Cloth Paper Scissors"..Man, I love that magazine! I used to buy about every quilting and scrap booking magazine I could find and hoard them....I was always going to make this project or that one! I think I have made two from this pile of magazines...Now I just buy "Quilting arts and "CPS"......I just adore them and I re look at them all the time. Tonight I am going to look through them for the article on using tyvek...I finally just figured out which mailer the post office uses that actually is tyvek....I thought I would play around with that..

The atc's are for trades....The sisters' one is for a group member using some of the stuff that she sent me...Her stuff was so fun, it was super easy to make! The other one is for a lottery. I lost my 56 year old best friend and mom five years ago to breast cancer so it is a tribute to her...I sure miss her and I hate mothers day now....Isn't that sad? The lottery theme 'cause it is in May has a "mother" theme. I am going to make one more for it...I actually am getting all caught up, so I guess it is time to go sign up for more stuff so I can whine and moan! haha....