I'm all for exchanging something handmade, since I love to make things for people as well as receive handmade items, but my friends don't sew, so that's a bummer. At work we have an exchange, but that one I really don't like because the gifts are so generic & they always play that Chinese game where, if you like a gift someone has already opened, you can swap yours for hers. I always end up with crap (or the one gag gift in the lot), but I would never swap it for someone else's gift on principle alone; if I don't believe in it, I will not do it. Someone always ends up in tears, & yet they still play that "game." Go figure.