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Handmade Holiday: Progress Report
2009 @ 8:21 am
Okay, 6 4 days to go. How we all doing? The reality is that I only have three more days. We start the out-of-house celebration and cooking on Thursday–no more time to consider gifts! Thanks to a couple afternoons off, I’ve been able to make major headway on the handmade gifts. Too bad I can’t post photos till after! A bit of advice: projects that take under one hour are best. Trust me.
*Grocery Bag Dispensers. Tutorial by Kim Kight, posted on Dioramarama.com in Dec 2006. 7 complete, 3 to go. There are SO FAST.
*Rice Heat Therapy Bag.
I’ll be mixing it up a bit and doing some heat packs, some small “boo boo buddy” variety.Okay, this one is just not happening. I am hoping to get some boo boo buddies done for stocking stuffers.*One princess dress for dress-up. I just passed this one on to my mother, who volunteered to take it off my list. HOORAY!
*Two or three aprons. I’ve had most success with the full apron from Lotta Jansdotter’s book Simple Sewing. Okay, I did these three and they took FOREVER. Mostly, it was the strings… I recommend twill tape for faster results!
*One yoga mat bag. I love the one Carrieoke made a while back and plan to follow the same tutorial. Done! And pretty quick. I made some adjustments to the tutorial. The most notable was to tack the lining to the outside so it doesn’t pop out whenever you can your mat out.
*Machine Embroidered Coasters. Did you see my post? I made 4!
*Some sort of ornament.
Contenders thus far are 10-minute Santa or Martha’s latest snowflakes, which are like a fun science experiment.. Decided on freestanding lace snowflakes on the embroidery machine. They are turning out really pretty!*Knit ski mask. By Jenna Adorno and found on Knitty.com Done!
*Black skull cap is also done…
*many framed photos of the girls’ school photos
Easy! Thank you to Ikea for being attractive and reasonably priced.
See you after the holidays!
Comments
I love that Lotta apron pattern, but it is a bit time consuming. Twill tape for the strings is a great idea. I’ll have to try that one!
You put me to shame!
(both with your handmade gifts and ability to blog about them. lol)