This part of the swap is always exciting for me. I love getting the packages in the post with 'Stitchscape Swap' written on the front, there's a little thrill and a small dance as I rip open the seal to see what loveliness lies within (depending on who I'm with there will also be an investigative show and tell), but one of the best bits is the first time I get all of the cards out together and lay them down for their big photoshoot.
In this collection we have several cutting flower allotments, a couple of individually plucked fruits/veggies, a scarecrow, birds-eye-view layouts of an allotment and little sheds or greenhouses. It fully covers what an allotment means. The only thing missing is the gentleman with a kerchief on his head sitting in a camping chair with a newspaper and radio 2 on in the background.
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So the above is what a random colour generator app I found online thinks are the strongest and most dominant overall palette colours. Would you automatically associated those colours with an allotment? How interesting! I would disagree on one point as I think there is more of a dark emerald green in there but I suppose it's all relative really.
I've just tested a different palette picker website and it has a range of different palettes that do also include green. If you're interested the pictured palette was generated through Image Color Picker, but I've also found this Coolors one which gives you options that's quite fun - could come in handy for some projects.
Sandra's one below is very interesting. If you look at it closely, the lighter patches are printed music sheets which have been used as the base for her planting beds. I had initially thought that she'd painted or coloured in the fabric and deliberately left plain material behind but, as with all of these pieces, there are often so many layers you have to look beyond what you see at first glance and in this case she appears to have used the fabric pattern to her advantage.
It took a while for these cards to be swapped round as the deadline was around a bank holiday and it always scuppers up the post. I'm not convinced that we actually get a delivery every day, possibly we have an alternative day route?
When I swap them round I consult my spreadsheet of names which has a chart showing who has been given cards from whom in this year's swap so that I don't duplicate them with someone they already have had artwork from. It's a case of starting with the first person on the screen and picking up cards from the pile until I get a card from someone they haven't had, writing it into the spreadsheet and plopping the card on the envelope. Usually it works out well although I do have to do a bit of jiggery-pokery nearer to the end of the list.
Sometimes I'll take photographs to share on the Facebook page to show the members that I am about to send them their cards back and this month it turned out that they all play a little game of 'Guess the Envelope' to see if they can guess whose card they're getting. Those that have slightly different shaped or coloured envelopes get it easy of course. I wonder if this month I'll get some slightly more varied self addressed envelopes through!
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