Received from Donna & mailing today

Yesterday the mailman delivered my first "Fair and Square". Isn't it adorable? No Donna "Liberty for Ewe" is not cutsey - but very cute. I love it!!!! Thank you so very much for stitching this square for me.

After giving it a lot of thought I have decided to try for the Friendship Quilt and this very first square will always have a very special place on it.

My exchange partner Donna blogs as DaisyGirl at: http://daisygirlstitching.blogspot.com/

Last night I finished your square Donna and will be mailing it this afternoon. It was fun stitching for you and I can only hope that I interpreted your likes/dislikes correctly.

Hi Daisygirl & all F&S friends

After a long weekend at a convention it was such fun to come home last night and see who my exchange partner is. It's so nice to meet you Donna and I am looking forward to this fun stitching project.

You asked for some ideas and I am happy to give you some but PLEASE KNOW THAT I WILL LOVE ANYTHING YOU STITCH FOR ME. Just the thought of someone taking the time and effort is special enough.

So here are a few ideas - I love houses and house related things (think gardens, cats, etc), samplers, Quaker-designs. Designs by 'Just Nan', 'Blackbird Designs', 'Country Cottage Needleworks', 'The Prairie Schooler' and 'The Drawn Thread' are among my favorites. After seeing Annemarie's hint about a friendship quilt I think that is what I will be making. Imagine how wonderful this will look after I've exchanged with all of you. Like many other F&S exchangers I'm really not too keen on cartoons or cutsie things and very bright colors.

I hope this helps and can only add "If you enjoy making it I'm sure I'll love it!!"

Additional info

After reading Annemarie's post I realized there is something I prefer not to receive. Like Annemarie - please no Disney/cartoons. If my exchange partner has any questions I will of course be more than happy to answer them.

Also wanted to let you know that I will be out of town from May 30 through June 3. I don't want my you to feel I've dropped off the face of the earth the moment the partners are announced.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Hi, I'm Margaret

Just a few words to introduce myself to the 'Fair and Square' gang which I'm thrilled to be a part of. My name is Margaret and I have been stitching since I was about 20 and loved it from the first moment. Wednesday is always an important day in my week as that is when I get together with my stitching friends at our local LNS. They are a great bunch and we share not only our love of cross stitching but books, our lives and our ideas about the world in general.

Now is the moment that I'm supposed to let you in on what I would like my square to look like. I have thought about it long and hard, listed some likes and dislikes and then decided to basically leave it up to the stitcher. I am sure that anything any one of you makes will be lovely. Since I plan to make single items out of the squares theme should be no problem.