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Lynn B
True Blue Farmgirl
113 Posts
Lynn
Derry
NH
USA
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 Posted - Sep 05 2006 : 2:02:42 PM
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Don't know if this is the perfect place for this post, but seemed like a pretty darn good spot! I received in the mail a letter for a kitchen towel exchange. The idea is that you receive a letter with two names on it. You send a kitchen towel to the name listed in the number one spot. You also receive a second letter with the two name spots emtpy. You then place the name in number 2 on your original letter in the number 1 spot and your name in the number 2 spot, make six copies and send this out to six people. In theory you should receive back 36 new towels from different people! I have done a recipe exchange like this and gotten some great recipes from it! I am writing to see if anyone would like me to include them in my mailing list to be involved with this. I think it sounds like so much fun!
Hey Libbie, maybe we can somehow make a future chapter project of kitchen towel exchanges! 
Lynn
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
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LJRphoto
True Blue Farmgirl
760 Posts
Laura
Hickory Corners
MI
USA
760 Posts |
Posted - Sep 05 2006 : 2:33:41 PM
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What about making it an embroidery project? Flour sack towels are great and inexpensive and it's easy to do an iron on transfer pattern. I've got a set of days of the week towels going now.
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." -E. B. White
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Libbie
Farmgirl Connection Cultivator
3579 Posts
Anne E.
Elsinore
Utah
USA
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Posted - Sep 05 2006 : 2:58:29 PM
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Lynn -- that sounds like a great idea!!! How fun to have a set of kitchen towels that are filled with farmgirl charm. I'm excited to see how this can work. Great suggestion!!!!
XOXO, Libbie
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Lynn B
True Blue Farmgirl
113 Posts
Lynn
Derry
NH
USA
113 Posts |
Posted - Sep 05 2006 : 3:27:55 PM
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Libbie, if you want I can email you the original letter and we can try to figure out a way to do it with chapters. Will have to tweak it a little, but if we put our heads together I'm sure we could figure it out!
Laura, doing the embroidery towels sounds like a great idea! Now, I just have to learn how to do it...
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
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Libbie
Farmgirl Connection Cultivator
3579 Posts
Anne E.
Elsinore
Utah
USA
3579 Posts |
Posted - Sep 05 2006 : 4:21:58 PM
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Sure! Let's have a look and see what we can come up with...
XOXO, Libbie
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brightmeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
2045 Posts
Brenda
Lucas
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Sep 05 2006 : 5:02:53 PM
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I got a dishtowel chain letter from my aunt a few years back. I thought it was a good idea, too, and followed through, but evidently the people I sent it to broke the chain, because I never got not even ONE dishtowel!
Since chain letters are questionable I would prefer to participate in a swap or exchange rather than a chain, since the chain always depends on finding more and more people to participate. Some people are sensitive to receiving chain letters, also.
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
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daffodil dreamer
True Blue Farmgirl
805 Posts
Jayne
Hamilton
Victoria
Australia
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Posted - Sep 05 2006 : 5:47:34 PM
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Hi all,
Over in the Stitching Room, there is currently an embroidered tea towel swap going on (it is under the topic 'Swaps'). Not sure if numbers are going to be limited or anything. Go and have a look anyone who is interested! I agree that a direct swap may be 'safer' than a chain - to make sure no one misses out.
Best wishes,
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sunshine
True Blue Farmgirl
4877 Posts
Wendy
Utah
USA
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Shirley
True Blue Farmgirl
734 Posts
Shirley
Olympia
Wa
USA
734 Posts |
Posted - Sep 05 2006 : 7:09:24 PM
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| I did a dishtowel one also and got not even one back either |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Sep 06 2006 : 9:53:51 PM
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oh chile' .. i got one of those letters asking us to send 'flip flops' .. and we'd get twenty ka-trillion pairs in return! i can't even wear flip flops (cuz of the thingie that goes between the toes .. a no-no for diabetics) .. so .. i bowed outta' that one.
a towel "SWAP" sounds fun though! xo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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LJRphoto
True Blue Farmgirl
760 Posts
Laura
Hickory Corners
MI
USA
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Posted - Sep 06 2006 : 10:07:50 PM
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I understand about the feelings on the chain letter thing. I sure was fantasizing about having a whole stack of dishtowels embroidered by women from all over the place though.
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." -E. B. White
http://www.betweenthecities.com/blog/ljr/
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sunshine
True Blue Farmgirl
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Wendy
Utah
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