Beading ornament for Christmas tree

Paper Petal Flowers tutorial

What you’ll need:

• Post-it notes (or other paper)
• Tape
• Scissors

Unique Flower card

Making cards for giving

Tutorial: Earth Day! Newspaper Flowers and more...

First off, gather your materials:
Newspaper
Paint and Brushes
Scissors
Pipecleaners (I didn`t think of it when we were making these but you could recycle twist ties to use instead of pipecleaners)
Thrifted Colourful Buttons
Scrap bits of green yarn or ribbon
Small branches or twigs
Empty cereal box or something similar for template making
Ability to draw 5 different sized circles or have objects to trace
Optional: Vase to display them in (we used rice for support for the branches)

crafts for christmas

Snowflake crochet

This flake was inspired while I was watching Pirates of the Caribbean for about the 19th time. I call it my Ship's Wheel Snowflake.

You may do whatever you'd like with snowflakes you make from this pattern, but you may not sell the pattern. Thanks, and enjoy!

Making Paper for Christmas and holiday

Making Paper for  Christmas and holiday

Flower basket

 
Flower basket

Making flower wedding glasses

Wedding glasses

Pom-Pom Tutorial

This is a tutorial for making pom-poms using your
fingers. This one is a small, two-finger pom-pom
(about 1" in diameter) but you can make bigger ones
by using more fingers. As far as yarn choice, thinner
and softer yarn will make a more pleasing pom-pom.

Heart to heart Pillows

Heart to heart Pillows

10 Printable Christmas Gift Tags and Labels

1. Printable Holiday Gift Tags

3 little mittens

The kids' Christmas ornaments are done.

I didn't look carefully at the sizes when I decided to make these as ornaments and very quickly figured out they'd be larger than I would want for the tree. I rethought the plan and instead of doing them in the traditional cross stitch size, used the pattern for petit point on linen going over one thread. The quarter will give you a better idea of size. (Done as recommended in the pattern, they would finish up around 3" by 4 1/2".) These are probably the last thing I will ever do in petit point. My eyes can't take it anymore.

This one is Trixie's. I picked the pattern with words to commemorate her learning to read this year.