The Great Big Stitched Postcard Swap is a quarterly global swap of stitched postcard love, where people across the world make a postcard-sized piece of art using any materials they like. The only rules are that it needs to include some kind of stitching, and it needs to fit with that quarter’s swap theme.
Every participant is allocated a swap partner to post their creation to, and then they receive some creative goodness (in the form of another handmade postcard) from someone else somewhere in the world.
It is free to enter (participants just pay for the cost of making and posting their postcard) – and it is a whole lot of fun! You can see what was created in previous swaps below. If you want to be notified of the next one, please sign up for DWYL news.
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Past swap themes:
Great Big Stitched Postcard Swap (5): DISCOVER
Our biggest swap yet, the ‘Discover’ theme saw 250+ people all over the world stitching tiny pieces of postcard art and sharing it with new friends in different countries. You can see a sample of what was created below (more here!) Thank you to everyone who joined in and made this so much fun.
Brenda Anderson (USA)
Kirsty Rankin (UK)
Great Big Stitched Postcard Swap (4): BLOOM
The 4th Great Big Stitched Postcard Swap has finished – and what a wonder it was! Here is a snapshot of the gorgeousness created and sent between 180 people in 20 countries with the theme ‘BLOOM’! See the Flickr group for more inspiring mail art!
Thank you so much to everyone who poured such creativity, imagination and love into your postcards, and brought a smile to someone else somewhere else in the world!
Great Big Stitched Postcard Swap (3): ‘LOVE’
Great Big Stitched Postcard Swap (2): ‘HOME’
Great Big Stitched Postcard Swap (1) ‘TIME’
