Ohh, this is one of my favourite Handmade Christmas items I’ve made this year…
Although it may look a little complicated to make (I didn’t make it seem easy by rushing through each step in the video! My bad!), I found myself on to making the next lil’ stocking with 10 minutes or so! Once I found my groove I was off producing, like a little factory!
Today’s little craft is a sweet little Hessian Bird Tree Ornament, the very same that I recently demonstrated at a Christmas Craft Night at my local Spotlight.
I forgot to mention yesterday, that the supply lists and instructions for each project will be in the description box of every video.
I hope that having them there will help you in making your own crafts at home!
This coming Friday, the 13th of December, I’ll be launching my little 12Days of Christmas Crafts series on my YouTube channel! Yay!
I’ll be uploading some fun and simple craft projects everyday of the 12 days leading up to Christmas.
In this little series, I chose a range of different crafts that contain the use of paper, fabrics, lots of hot glue and glitter, paint, natural resources and simple sewing machine work.
The level of these crafts range from simplistic kids crafts (with adult supervision of course!) up to some that are for the more experienced crafter/sewer.
In each video I’ve included easy step-by-step instructions along with where I found my inspiration! (Here’s lookin’ at you Pinterest!).
All of the videos are short’n’sweet and are visually informative.
So I hope you enjoy watching from Friday onwards (I’ll post each one on my blog as we go along) and create a menagerie of Christmas crafts this season!
I’ve been a bit quiet on the blog front over the past week…
But it’s been all for a good reason, honest!
I’ve come along so quickly in getting all of my Handmade Christmas goodies finished that I’ve taken up the chance to film a little Christmassy craft series on my YouTube channel. (Is it possible to feel dread and excitement over something in equal measure?).
I’ll be launching the series (fingers crossed!) Friday December 13th!
Oopsie! I’m not going to say to much more but be on the look out next week for a post fully introducing you to my radical festive idea which will include a nifty little highlights reel! (Ooooo-aahhh!)
I was inspired to get filming by my latest guilty pleasure purchase; a somewhat early Christmas present for myself (Why not?, I say!).
Canon EOS 600D
I’ve been self-training myself on all the in’s-and-out’s of this sweet little do-dad and I’m having SO much fun experimenting, exploring and creating with it!
Best purchase of the year in my opinion!!
Any-who, I shall be off.
I’ve got lots more filming and editing to do before I unveil my secret little project (which is not so much a secret anymore…darn it!).
Last Thursday eve I helped host a Christmas Craft Evening at my local Spotlight store. Together with staff and customers we had a very festive evening full of Christmas crafts, sweet treats and some lovely lady chats.
Here’s what we made!
Felt Bunting, Embroidered Homespun Ornaments, Scrappy Quilted Christmas Tree WallhangingHessian Birdy Ornament with hand stamped JOY message
The Christmas felt bunting along with the embroidered/sequinned homespun ornaments were the biggest hits as everyone was welcome to sit down, make and take what they had created.
Everyone did such a wonderful job – the amount of creativity that there is out there is just phenomenal!
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This week, like a moth to the flame, I found my way back to my Double Wrench Mini Block quilt and have finally started quilting it! Huzzah!
The quilt in it’s current state!
As usual, I’m feeling very impatient to get it finished so I can share the sweet success of completion with you all!
My itching fingers have also found their way back to my Yellow Sampler Embroidery, which has been an ongoing project since earlier this year.
I’m on the home stretch to finishing it that today I bought a second-hand frame for it, ready to be hung quietly somewhere in my house!
Over the next few weeks, as Christmas inches ever so closer, I’m planning on filming a few Christmassy | Quilty | Crafty videos that I hope to upload onto Youtube (it involves hexies!!)
I’ll too begin planning for my 2nd Annual Handmade Christmas – a pledge to make and give only handmade gifts and cards for Christmas.
(I made this pledge last year: you can read Part 1 and Part 2 here.)
So I shall say farewell! (As I quietly freak out to myself about how fast the Christmas Eve deadline is approaching! eek!)
Over the past week, I’ve been squirrelling away in my sewing room whilst humming to a few select christmas carols.
You may be asking, ‘Christmas carols already??’…
Why yes, it does seem that way – Christmas has definitely come to this quilter’s house very early this year! I usually start my christmas crafting in late November/early December, so it’s all feeling a little bit weird!
But there is a legit reason for this…
It’s all in preparation for a Christmas Craft Night I’ll be hostingpresentingrunningco-ordinating having fun at (!) this coming Thursday night at my local Spotlight store!
We’ve got lots of sweet crafty|sewy|quilty christmasy projects planned perfect for the kiddies to join in on as well as for those who are big kids at heart! (Me!!!)
Here’s a glimpse of my sewing room from this week – nothing has changed today, it’s still covered in bits of felt, ribbon, sequins, buttons, PVA glue and christmas fabrics…
I’m usually not this messy!
Meh, whatcha gonna do – this is what the space is used for I suppose!
Annnddd, here’s a small sneaky of some of the things we’ll be making!!
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