From Australia via NYC

Claire, of Sweet Birdy Love, recently spent an amazing month in New York City - seeing the sights, taking fun photos, and leaving little bits of yarny love wherever she went. (Hop over to her blog to read her fun NYC posts.) She also did a bit of making while there, and decided to send a hand-made souvenir to 2 of her lucky readers. Into a hat went the names of all who had commented on her trip posts - and out of the hat came my name!

Today I received Claire's package. The return address was Australia...

...but the postmark read NYC. (I've never received a package from either place, so both are exciting for me.)

And inside was....

A pile o'goodies

First, a beautiful hand-embroidered needle case, featuring this gorgeous New York pigeon:

Notice the tiny birdseed :)

On the back of the case is a lovely feather:

Next, a cheerful card, which could have been WAS drawn by Claire (how talented is she!?!):

Then a show-stopping tea towel from Anthropologie....

And finally, two of Claire's yarny hearts, just like the ones she used to decorate the Big Apple.

(This is good timing - I've been thinking of doing some local yarn bombing. A little heart is just the ticket, if I can bear to give one away.)

Did I mention that the tea-towel is trimmed with rickrack? (In fact it's so lovely, I want to wear it. I'm thinking of turning it into a hostess apron.)

Thanks so much, Claire, for these lovely souvenirs of your trip to NYC.

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