As with last year, I absolutely love Christmas as it's a great opportunity to do lots of making so here are some of the projects I have made over the festive period:
With the help (in fact she did practically all of it) of my best friend Em, we made some sugar mice for the netball girlies and my lovely sister and brother-in-law. I'm not going to lie, they taste horrible - but don't they look sweet!! Next time, I'm going to try adding peppermint essence so that you can taste something other than pure sugar.
Fudge for Dad and my Grandparents. I haven't done this since last Christmas and they turned out ok but quite crumbly. I suppose it depends how you like it - I prefer it a little more chewy in the middle.
Christmas bunting to go above our beautiful inglenook fireplace in the cottage, I have since turned it around as I sewed the back with another, unchristmassy pattern however TIP: always check that by switching one Xmas image with another on one side, it doesn't effect the alternating pattern on the other - I just don't think I can live with the pattern having 2 of the same colours next to each other!
Christmas wreath. This time I simply used off cuts from the Christmas tree, added ivy and hawthorn berries from my foraging, cut and tied some cinnamon sticks with what I thought was pretty lace when I bought it (and turned out to be knicker elastic) and finished with a large lace bow in the middle.
In the window above you can see another craft experiment - making paper rosettes using nice Christmas craft paper. They didn't take long but they were forever pinging apart as the double sided sticky tape holding the circle closed just wasn't strong enough! I put a button with raffia threaded through in the centre on both sides.
Following a lovely crafty afternoon at a friend's with her doing cross stitch, I had created some handmade Christmas cards.
An attempt to make a new Christmas tree decoration back in November ended up with me making a GIANT sized snowman (which I disposed of with embarrassment), followed by a teeny Christmas tree so I adapted it to use as an invitation instead:
I found a really simple idea online for making a Christmassy table decoration - just gather some foliage and put it in a glass bowl with a candle in the middle! I went foraging in the garden to get a variety of green foliage to create different textures, I bought a candle to go in the middle then stuck the foliage around it adding some cinnamon sticks, dry orange slices and some cranberries (I couldn't find any berries anywhere!)
So now into January I'm starting to look ahead at what I will be crafting, here's what I have planned:
* Handmade gift for friend whose baby is due end of Jan (got it in mind just need to decided whether its going to be a boy or a girl!!)
* Quilt for nephew number 2 (due in May)
* 1st bday present for nephew number 1 and Goddaughter (got this in mind already - March & April respectively)
*project for new quilting class - king sized bed quilt for us
* draught excluders for cottage
* patchwork cushions
* learn to crochet - my granny has taught me the basics last week, I just need to practice now!
* t-shirt scrap material rug
* curtains for cottage
What a busy and exciting year I have ahead :-)
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