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 Handmade Holiday Decorations

Here it is, still early in November, all of your client Christmas quilts are done, handmade gifts are made and the Holiday menu is planned. What are you going to do with your time?

I'll tell you. You are going to make your Christmas decorations! 

Among The Gum Trees is running a series of 9 free Christmas projects over 9 weeks leading up to Christmas
May Britt's Merry Christmas embroidered heart
Kim's Santa wall hanging
Amandajean's Christmas Tree skirt
Natalie's tutorial for a small Christmas Quilt
Sue's Tree House has a cross stitch Christmas Tree towel
Jacquie's Christmas Tree skirt tutorial
Sew4Home has a simple but cute tree skirt tutorial


Fill your tree with some of these Christmas ornaments:
Zakka Life has this simple Christmas ornament, it's not much on it's own but imagine it made with quilted silk fabric that has been edge stitched in metallic and using beads where the pieces are hand-stitched together
The Moebious Sock has instructions for mini ornaments
The Purl Bee has several ornament and decorating projects: Star Ornaments, Two Sided Felt Snowflakes and Bird Ornaments
Sew Artsy's felt tree ornaments
Retro Mama's stuffed bird ornaments
Linaloo's patchwork star ornament
Here's a cute Christmas "Hark" ornament cross stitch pattern
Not Quite Vintage has instructions for tiny ice skate ornaments
Here are some pretty mixed media circle art ornaments
Jo's snowflake Christmas ornaments

Forget traditional Christmas cards, you need to make Fabric Postcards:
Dawn's shaker snow globe postcard
I have two tutorials for Christmas Tree themed postcards, the silver tree and a mixed media tree. I have a couple more planned for later this month.

 

Vicki Welsh

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