♥ Handmade Christmas Gifts

As well as the Hello Kitty set & bear that I made for my cousins, I also made the majority of everyone else's. I didn't make anything for my sister, because she had declared earlier in the year that she hates (my) handmade stuff. I don't know, her loss I guess! I ended up buying her lots of cheap trinkets instead, but moving on... I made this lap quilt for my Mum with scraps of fabric I had.

 

My first proper quilt, & it's definitely not perfect, but she loved it! I don't have a quilting foot on my machine, so this took forever, haha, & instead of making life easier for myself & quilting from one end to the other in straight lines I decided to quilt each patch with a square. Not fun! I ended up finishing this the day before Christmas Eve. As you can see Button wanted to help me out with pics, but he's cute so I hope you don't mind :P

I made these matching initial cushions for my Granny & Grandad. They were another long project, popcorn stitch is another thing I'm sick of now, haha! You can't see, but they are red & white gingham on the back & have feather pillow inserts.

This was another gift for my Mum, I painted 3 illustrations of our little doggies, & then spent hours searching for & then eventually buying a frame that would fit all 3 of them. It's now hanging in the hallway, & Mum declared it her "favourite gift". Yay!

For every other adult couple in the family I made them 2 jars of jam & packaged them nicely. My jam was also the main present last year, & everyone seemed to like it, so I made 2 pots this year, strawberry again, & "jumbleberry", which was a blackberry, raspberry, blackcurrant & redcurrant mix. I also painted the design for the labels, (this isn't the best pic), of a badger holding a basket of fruit.

 

♥ Georgina