Any 🎄 crafts started, and if so, what are you making?

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I’ve made a lot of woollen gnomes for a local children’s charity to sell and I will be making some Christmas wreaths for them too. Pictures of gnomes and one wreath I made last year.

aggie

Making cards , but they will cost to post !

Huh..me too !

I've just completed a small rug (Readicut wool shop) - started in the early 1970s as a bedside mat. It surfaced when we had to clear the understairs cupboard to give the electrician and plumber access to the meters. It's a yellow and green plaid pattern and it's now in front of the hearth in the front room, a perfect match for the green carpet and yellow walls. I'm very proud of it!

Grandmama

I've just completed a small rug (Readicut wool shop) - started in the early 1970s as a bedside mat. It surfaced when we had to clear the understairs cupboard to give the electrician and plumber access to the meters. It's a yellow and green plaid pattern and it's now in front of the hearth in the front room, a perfect match for the green carpet and yellow walls. I'm very proud of it!

That is lovely!

I made some bunting to enter into the Christmas 🎅 decoration category at our village show. There were no other entries! I won! 😂👑💎

I am marking a place so I can view all these lovely items

I made two roman blinds this week but I'm yet to put them up

lizzypopbottle

I made some bunting to enter into the Christmas 🎅 decoration category at our village show. There were no other entries! I won! 😂👑💎

Well done, I made yards and yards of Christmas bunting one year (it's gone around the world - not literally!) and I still love it.

HiMay

Christmas blanket, a kit from the knitting network- made over the summer

Ooh, lovely!!

I saw MadebyAnita's Christmas blanket pattern but it may be beyond my capabilities.

I collected the seedheads from the poppies and alliums this year. They are currently hanging upside-down in the shed while they finish drying. I'm looking forward to spraying them and incorporating them into our Christmas vases.

What a lot of lovely ideas. I’m still making my Dickensian Mice and have just looked out a Christmas panel I started quilting years ago - this is the year it gets finished!! I like the idea of that bunting to use up (some of) my yarn stash.

My Grandma used to make rugs from Readicut kits Grandmama she made us one when we got married in 1979 we had it for years. What a great under the stairs find, it looks great.

Gorgeous colour scheme.

When my sons were little, I crossed stitched each of them a stocking with a large Santa and their name. As they get married and have children, I cross stitch an ornament in the shape of a Christmas ball that hangs on their stocking with the new addition's name and a Christmas decoration. I am now starting on my 2nd grandson's stocking ball.

DamaskRose

What a lot of lovely ideas. I’m still making my Dickensian Mice and have just looked out a Christmas panel I started quilting years ago - this is the year it gets finished!! I like the idea of that bunting to use up (some of) my yarn stash.

Do please post a pic of your mice when they’re finished!

All your pics are lovely, I do like seeing what everyone’s made.

Re stockings, a few yrs ago dd asked whether I could knit some for Gdcs.
All the ‘proper’ patterns I found were far too complicated (pattern wise) for me, and/or knitted like ‘proper’ socks, on 4 needles.

Eventually I used a pattern in Jean Greenhowe’s Christmas Special booklet - it’s for a small ornamental one, but easy - knitted in one piece with a seam.

I just made it a lot bigger, double DK on IIRC 5 mm needles instead of single on 3mm, and IIRC more or less doubled the foot measurement and made it much longer.
A white fluffy top, and I stitched on some separately knitted decorations, e.g. a 🎄also from the JG booklet, plus a mini snowman or elf (ditto JG) hanging from the top.

I should have made them a lot bigger still though - they don’t hold half of what FC brings, so they have pillowcases too.

I just joined a women's crafting group yesterday and made two bead bracelets and a pair of earrings. They do a lot of sewing crafts, knitting and crochet but I hate sewing with a passion, so jewellery making it was

Saetana

I just joined a women's crafting group yesterday and made two bead bracelets and a pair of earrings. They do a lot of sewing crafts, knitting and crochet but I hate sewing with a passion, so jewellery making it was

We can do whatever we like at our group. Within reason!
Someone tried to teach us needle felting; I think I stabbed my fingers several times before I decided it wasn't for me 😁

It's not exclusively for women either but no men seem to have joined.

Callistemon21

Saetana

I just joined a women's crafting group yesterday and made two bead bracelets and a pair of earrings. They do a lot of sewing crafts, knitting and crochet but I hate sewing with a passion, so jewellery making it was

We can do whatever we like at our group. Within reason!
Someone tried to teach us needle felting; I think I stabbed my fingers several times before I decided it wasn't for me 😁

Oh god, I tried that at school - yeah its definitely a finger stabbing hazard

Saetana

Callistemon21

Saetana

I just joined a women's crafting group yesterday and made two bead bracelets and a pair of earrings. They do a lot of sewing crafts, knitting and crochet but I hate sewing with a passion, so jewellery making it was

We can do whatever we like at our group. Within reason!
Someone tried to teach us needle felting; I think I stabbed my fingers several times before I decided it wasn't for me 😁

Oh god, I tried that at school - yeah its definitely a finger stabbing hazard

I won the necklace we made between us 😃
DD loves it.

The group member who taught us was multi-talented!

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We grew corn on the cob this year and I just had to have a go at some corn dollies. Followed pictures on Pinterest 👍🏻

Well done everyone.
Loving all the pictures

Those are amazing, Jbpl!

Lovely pictures everyone.

Love cards ....I've done some in the past too but very simple.
Can you show us a photo of yours please Aggie?