Charmed I'm sure

***SWAP AND GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED***

The Polaroid / I spy quilt I made with some of my charms from last years Japanese Charm Swap

I love Japanese Import fabrics.  I love teeeny tiny fairytale illustrations, sparkly nellies, the cutest of cutesie little animals,  mental bizarro creatures, text prints, vintage labels....  Love it all.  I love seeing what people make with them too.  Especially when fussy cutting the dinky prints.

MADE BY ALI @ VERY BERRY HANDMADE

These amazing wee booties were made by Ali who blogs at Very Berry Handmade.  Aren't they fabulous?!  Talk about getting the most from small bits of fabric, these are really beautiful.

But how do you get a good selection of prints to fussy cut?
Well let me talk you into buying some help you out....  What would you say to buying one metre, and exchanging it for a charm pack of 56 x 5" charms of lots and lots and lots of lovely prints?

Last year Cindy hosted a Japanese Charm Swap for UK & Ireland.  It was a stonking success!  This year, I'm having a go at hosting....  Anyone want to play?

**swap now full**
Giveaway now closed.

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Basic details - to participate you must have a flickr account and live in the UK or Ireland.  To sign up leave me a comment saying you'd like to SWAP!  Sign ups close on 25th August or when the swap is full.  We need 28, but if lots of people are interested we could go up to 56.  (and if we dont get 28 I'll go hide under the sofa for a few weeks...)
I would email the participants to invite them to join the all important Flickr Group.  You'd have from August 26th to September the 26th to SHOP, CHOP AND MAIL YOUR SWAP!

Now here's a good bit....

All participants will also recieve a discount code for 10% off at Celtic Fusion Fabrics!  *

Cool huh?  Celtic Fusion Fabrics is a great British on line fabric shop, that has a lovely selection of Japanese prints - Cosmo, Kokka, Lecien.  The service is always great and they do some lovely small bundles of 16ths and 8ths too.  

And if that wasnt cool enough, lovely Gwen from Celtic Fusion Fabrics is also providing us with a celebratory giveaway!  

11 Gorgeous Fat Quarters - thats 9 Fat Quarters of Kokka, and 2 co-ordinating Summersville!  

So, to recap - If you're interested, leave me a comment (and dont be a no reply blogger!)  Just say SWAP, or  GIVEAWAY, or BOTH!!!

One comment only please, you dont need to follow me, but if you want to go visit Gwen at the Celtic Fusion Fabrics blog to get updates on new stock, sales and promotions click here.   Gwen recently did a stunning post on how to wallpaper a wall with your favourite fabric!  Wow.  

Well, are you coming to play?  Huh?  Are you?  Huh?  Go on......   

****EDIT*******
ATTENTION ALL U.S. READERS!  Hop on over to Happier than a Bird Quilts as she has decided to host a Japanese Charm Swap just for you!

**** EDIT***  

SWAP NOW FULL!
GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED!

*  Swap fabrics can be bought from other shops - you dont HAVE to get your swap at Celtic Fusion Fabrics.  But the discount is really kind of them and they are a fab shop well worth a visit!!