{"id":3851,"date":"2011-12-14T23:14:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T04:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2011-12-14T23:14:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T04:14:29","slug":"cold-hands-warm-hearts-swap-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/cold-hands-warm-hearts-swap-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Hands, Warm Hearts Swap 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/6514066733\/\" title=\"CHWH 2011 swap! by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7164\/6514066733_bf32f00f48.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"CHWH 2011 swap!\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I participated in a swap, last month! I heard about CHWH about a week after it closed, last year. This year, I was kind of on top of things and signed up pretty much immediately after it was posted. I am so glad I did. I had fun creating a package for my partner, <a href=\"http:\/\/oliviadeerambles.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia.Dee<\/a>, and was so happy when I got mine! <\/p>\n<p>Not only did she send me gloves (touch screen ones! right on time for the new tablet my husband bought. ssssshhh! don&#8217;t tell my 6 year old) , she sent me YARN, and pens for my KIDDOS! How thoughtful, no?? They are over the mooooon with them! They were pretty thrilled when I pulled them out of the box. Usually, the stuff that comes in the mail is for&#8230;well, ME. And so being able to grab something out of the box was a major YAY for them. THANK YOU, Olivia!<\/p>\n<p>I sent&#8211;<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/6423527147\/\" title=\"332.365: the surprise ball by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6110\/6423527147_91a44fd8de.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"332.365: the surprise ball\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A SURPRISE BALL! It was my first. I had been wanting to make one for foreverrrr and so when I started keeping track of things to send to her, I somehow realized a ball would be totally awesome to make. Check her <a href=\"http:\/\/oliviadeerambles.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/cold-hands-warm-hearts-good-knits.html\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> if you want to see what was in the very center! I&#8217;ll give you a hint: I knit it. I&#8217;ll share details of that project soon! They were my Thanksgiving project (last minute, I KNOW! I&#8217;m a procrastinator sometimes) and so fun and easy to make!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandyalamode.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/chwhswap-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"chwhswap\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandyalamode.com\/\">Sandy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muchlove-illy.blogspot.com\/\">Ilene<\/a> for organizing such a wonderful swap. I will most definitely try my best to participate again next year. And thank you again to my swap partner, <a href=\"http:\/\/oliviadeerambles.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia<\/a>! It was a pleasure meeting you via snail mail. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7164\/6514066733_bf32f00f48.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"CHWH 2011 swap!\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I participated in a swap, last month! I heard about CHWH about a week after it closed, last year. This year, I was kind of on top of things and signed up pretty much immediately after it was posted. I am so glad I did. I had fun creating a package for my partner, Olivia.Dee, and was so happy when I got mine! <\/p>\n<p>Not only [Read More&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,4],"tags":[166,236,167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3860,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions\/3860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}