When your name is on a SIT name tag that looks like this, it’s a wonderful thing!

My gorgeous tag was made for me by the very talented Helen, who will be travelling all the way from Kununurra to join us.  I’m really looking forward to meeting her – Helen was one of the Around The Block online quilting bee members and had us all make Wonky Houses.  She took me right out of my comfort zone with that block and I really enjoyed stretching myself.  Thanks so much for the wonderful name tag Helen!

I made a name tag for Michelle.

Michelle is a wonderful crocheter and has led me to many fantastic patterns via Ravelry. She got me hooked on crocheting shawls, and has recently introduced me to a new yarn obsession – Wollmeise from Germany, which comes in the most intense and vibrant colours.  So a crocheted centrepiece seemed appropriate for her name tag.

The little letters came from Spotlight. You should have seen me deliberating on how to place them – with the first four letters of Michelle’s name going from left to right around the top, and then the dilemma of whether the next four letters should continue around clockwise, or whether they should start again from left to right and curve around the bottom. If you haven’t realised yet what an idiot I was spending time thinking about it, take another look at the name tag, and tell me which I chose to do.

Michelle was the first online blog friend I made that I subsequently met in real life – thanks Michelle for trusting that I wasn’t an axe murderer or something similar!  So I’m really looking forward to catching up with her again at SIT – and with meeting and re-meeting so many other people that I once only knew online.