Since the day I was added to the Twas The Night group of presenters I have been compiling a list of the oh so many gifts one can make in an evening or less. I then chose several of the items that I will give as gifts this year. I've added links whenever possible, mostly to tutorials.
I decided to stick with a theme for this posting. What ties it together is that everything I made specifically for this hop is being made with 2 coordinating holiday fabrics with a little white thrown in where needed. I live near a Crate and Barrel outlet. They sell their fabric from past seasons at a really terrific rate of $5.97 per yard at about 54 inch wof. I picked up 2 yards of each fabric and got stitching.
But first I need to say thank you to both Madame Samm @ Sew We Quilt and Marlene @ Stitchin by the Lake for motivating us along this extra special hop. The big twist for this hop is that we made a gift to pass along to the person who followed us on the Hop. That means I got these wonderful gifts from Bea. She is another versatile quilter, stitcher and she gifted many of her quickie accomplishments to me.
One of the shots was taken outside in the very bright sun and the other inside. Sorry but they don't do the goodies justice
The sweet owl is actually an eye glass holder.next to a great little Christmas zip pouch and a pattern. Below is a hexie purse a mug rug(the other side is in the first picture) and a wonderful rag basket. Bottom row is a beautiful pin cushion and tiny paper piecing pattern with the tiny cardboard pieces to sew around, way cool, and that Hawaiian shirt with paw prints is actually a tissue holder. Thank you so much Bea.
On to my contributions for this hop.
First on my list was this oven mitt and potholder set. They took me just under 2 hours to put together. The trim on the mitt is done by machine while the binding on the potholder is finished by hand because I have yet to master finishing by machine. No pattern used.
Then on to Bowl Buddies. This set is reversible. It took me about 1 ½ hours to make the bowls and it takes about ½ hour to do the matching Trivet I made the set with Trivet as my gift for Barbara in seasonal fabric so she could get a little more use out it. Another 2 hour project.
I was asked again this year to make some gift bags for wine bottles. My nephew thinks I’m wonderful at this particular project. He likes to have holiday bags and theme neutral bags on hand, cause you never know. I made all 4 bags in under a half hour and all are made with French seams.
Same basic idea is a gift bag. Just a little bigger. This is the gift bag I used to wrap the gift I sent to Barbara.
I also made a card to match ( I would be so lost without my printer/copier). To make the card I photocopied the fabric and reduced the size. Another under a half hour project including the trimming and folding of the card stock for a set of 10.
How about the 10 Minute Table Runner. It took me an hour. Simple but festive.
Several of these goodies could fill a good size fabric gift basket. Ok, I really wasn't planning on making this big a basket. It is about twice the size I had going on in my head. The problem was that at the same time I was doing the math I was binge watching Doctor Who. I really can’t sew things that need concentration when watching that show. But it turned out to be a great size gift basket.
Next up are the hand towels that I had to make to fill in some of the space in the big basket. Picked the towels up at BBB with a coupon then trimmed and quilted them. They would do well, matched up with the set of pot holders. I didn't time these but I'm thinking about an hour.
And last but not least, have you seen this idea floating around blogland. It is my Christmas fabric backed with terry cloth for a beautiful yet functional, handy dandy drain for the counter. I've seen them around made from old blocks and scraps. I actually own a store purchased one with terry cloth on both sides.
This one was supposed to have matching pot holders but when i went to turn them rightside out I found that I had put the extra batting in the wrong order when making the stack. The terry cloth makes such a mess that i just threw them in the trash, just couldn't bring myself to ripping and ruining the fun I's been having. This was also about an hour in the making.
Now what can I do with all of the scraps……….cards, tags, ornaments, pin cushions, rice bags, coasters, dog toys .......
Please stop by and see what other quick gift ideas are awaiting you by visiting this weeks contributors to the Twas the Night Blog Hop.
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