Thought I would start a list for anyone who is interested in keeping each other motivated to get Christmas sewing done! My list isn't that huge, but I need to do it between work and end of year concerts I am sorting for school so I need to start early!
My list for November at the moment is.....
A felt advent calendar (found a great one last night! Just need to buy some wool felt)
Stockings for the kids - For both these and the calendar I am going with white, red and pale blue! Love that colour combo!! Think kikki-k's new Christmas colour theme!
Wheat bag gifts
Bags for friends
That is all for now! Anyone else wanna join me in a Christmas sew-up!!
Oooh yep! I went to Wagga last week and stocked up on fabric (bit over $100 later...and that was buying clearance fabric at no more than $8/metre! ).
Hoping to make all Christmas pressies this year (except for DD, she's already all set!).
Bags for the ladies, and a bunch of fabric flowers.
Phone/change holders for the men. They look pretty cool, felt on one side and printed cotton on the other and attach snaps to the corners so they snap together to form a little box.
Fabric fridge magnets for DD and a friend's little boy.
I think I worked out I have 7 bags to make, 5 phone/change holders, 3 lots of flowers (12 flowers in total), and a patchwork bookmark for my nan. Plus a Christmas pinny for DD. I don't know if I'm being a bit too ambitious, but it's not November yet so I'm going to give it a good go! Lol
I would really like to make this Advent Calendar that I found but I don't know if I'm clever enough!! Still deciding if I should give it a try. A rotary cutter would be very handy. What one did you find Tanstar?
Oh my gosh Heaven that is GORGEOUS!! Love it! I have a rotary cutter but Im not that good at it haha! The one I found was THIS one, with different colours, and I might use a patterned fabric applique for the numbers instead of hand embroidery. Being felt it doesn't fray either so I wouldn't have to worry about the edges!
SS that is a long list but if you start early you will be fine plus I find that making more of one of things is good because the first one is like a prototype and the rest are easy and go fast!
I have decided to do a red and white Christmas tree theme this year (bought some lovely red and white wrapping papers) and I bought a large red and white check fabric on the weekend that I plan to make some decorations with it.
Sounds awesome Dan!!! I've got some gorgeous material to make a dress for DD but I can't sit at the machine at the moment hoping to get it done in time for Christmas!!!!
How exciting Dan! They're such a crack up how they get an idea in their head and you have to run with it!
I am sure they will look great!
I have my triangles and ribbon all cut and ready to go! I ended up sewing 1 last night but dinner, kids bedtime etc got in the way! So maybe back to it today!
I started making the placemats yesterday and they look pretty good. I got halfway through and I'm hoping to get more done today. If I get time I will post one to FB and post the link here. I've also decided to make stockings for the kids too - I just have el-cheapo felt ones from Go-Lo and they look manky and cheap. But I won't be able to get the fabric for them till I am able to go to spotlight - my local fabric store has a limited range of Christmas fabric and I want something funky for the kids and less traditional.
Great thread I'm keeping it simple this year as hopefully we will be moving house over summer. The only project I have on the go ATM is a small cross stitch decoration for the tree... it's in my FB album. If I get it finished I'll start on anothery. Loving all these ideas though!
I am going to make a Santa Sack for DD aswell I have decided. Found a nice idea on the spotlight website.
And where do I find felt in Spotlight?? Can someone tell me! I was there yesterday and couldn't find it but couldn't be bothered asking coz there was a line at the counter.
I have seen small felt pieces in the craft section of Spotlight, but I don't know if that is the only felt they have or if they have it on rolls with all the other fabric? I was thinking last night that I might be better off making small sacks too instead of stockings. I thought if I put handles on the sacks like a bag, they will be able to carry their stuff around easier because my girls especially tend to carry all their christmas stuff around with them LOL
ETA - I'm just looking at the catalogue online now and they have it on fabric rolls, so it will be somewhere with all the other fabric.
Last edited by Trillian; November 3rd, 2010 at 09:17 AM.
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hoping to get it done in time for Christmas!!!!
I'm keeping it simple this year as hopefully we will be moving house over summer. The only project I have on the go ATM is a small cross stitch decoration for the tree... it's in my FB album. If I get it finished I'll start on anothery. Loving all these ideas though!
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