My Secret Valentine Exchange Gift, #2018SVE

This will be my final instalment for the 2018 Secret Valentine Exchange. I received my present on Friday and was very excited to learn my parcel had travelled over the Atlantic ocean from Chicago.

My SVE buddy Celia Perez is a very talented published writer and librarian. Her hand-made gift to me was influenced by reading Richard B Sewall's award winning biography The life of Emily Dickinson. She created some really fun zine-style stickers with Emily's face and fun quotes written underneath.  She asked me to share photos of where Emily ends up when she leaves the house. There is even a hashtag #emilydickinsonleavesthehouse

Other gifts I received were a fab needle-felted heart brooch and a hand-sewn flower badge. As well as some yummy chocolate covered orange and caramel marshmallows and some loose tea leaves! What a fabulous end to the week and a big thanks to Celia for her creativity and to Ute and Sanae for organising another amazing SVE!

Emily D hanging out in East London!

#2018 Secret Valentine Exchange Reveal

I can reveal that my 2018 Secret Valentine is Kate who is known as @missfoxlove on Instagram. Kate contacted me yesterday that she succumbed to opening her Secret Valentine gift early so I can safely show you the gifts I made without spoiling the surprize!

As you know from my previous SVE post Kate loves red, pink, blue and silver colours and has a thing for foxes, pineapples, flowers and clouds imagery.
I raided my stash fabrics and found a number of cottons that would be perfect to make a zippered pouch or two in bright pink, a Japanese cherry blossom floral and a Cloud 9 'crane' fabric for the lining. (Yes, I am on a zippered pouch roll right now!)

The first pouch was made using the Noodlehead zippered pouch pattern and the second one was free-styled just as a simple pouch without a gusset. I also included some little gifts of some notebooks, rainbow bobbin cases pack (from Tiger) and some Graze nuts, chocolate and cherries wrapped in cloud wrapping paper!
Prepare for lots of photos!

A big shout out to the gorgeous Sanae and Ute who have organised this fantastic crafty sharing of love around the world! I am looking to #2019SVE already!

Check out lots of other cool crafty blogs at #handmademonday organised by Julia of Sum of their Stories.

Secret Valentine Exchange 2018 Sneak Peak

My #2018SVE partner loves these colours:

Her favourite fabric textures are cottons, silks, velvets, glittery, fluffy and shiny:

Her favourite images and icons are:

In keeping with the spirit of the exchange I checked my fabric stash to see if I had anything that would fit the brief and here is what I had:

I only needed to buy two zips to make the Secret Valentine gifts which I was pretty happy about. Here is a sneaky peak of the items I made which will be in the post tomorrow!

I will let you know about the gifts I made in a blogpost after the 14th February.

Secret Valentine's Exchange 2018

For the third year in a row I have signed up to take part in the Secret Valentine's Exchange (#2018SVE) organised by the lovely Sanae and Ute. It is such a unique way to celebrate Valentine's Day by making something for somebody and receiving a hand-made gift back.
If you want to take part yourself follow this link and read about how to sign up. The deadline for entries is Wednesday 10th January.

Read about my previous lovely experiences of Secret Valentine Exchange here #2016SVE and here #2017SVE.