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unusual Christmas packages

Chloe Findlay-Harder — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:47:29 +0000

My mom received a beautiful set of origami envelopes in the mail the other day and they inspired me I love taking origami patterns and reworking them in fabric. I’ve made envelopes from fabric before, but never for Christmas presents before. I always make candy & baking to give as gifts during the holidays, and I thought this one might work nicely as a gift bag.

I used this pattern and a 16 inch square of cotton fabric, ironed onto heavy weight fusible interfacing. I pinked the edges and ironed all the folds really well.

Here’s how it turned out:

I’m definitely going to make more, but next time I’ll use a second piece of fabric to line it. I think I’ll also zig-zag around the edges instead of just pinking them.

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unusual Christmas packages

Christmas gifts for the doll house fan

Chloe Findlay-Harder — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:00:47 +0000

My mom made a Christmas request for her spool-knitted & carved doll, Tottie Tomato. She asked for accessories or other things that she could use in photographs with Tottie.

I’ve been thinking about different things that I could make, embroidered pillows perhaps? Or even an eensy weensy little yo-yo quilt – but I decided on a machine embroidered doll house carpet.

It’s a great way to use up smaller scraps of fabric or to experiment with different embroidery stitches. I used long strips of fabric, machine embroidered onto a base of heavy-weight interfacing. Each strip of cloth has a different color of thread (I used my fun variegated rayon flosses) and a different stitch on it. I satin-stitched around the outsides and added a fringe on the short ends.

It took me about two hours to complete – and was definitely fun to do So for a gift for the little girl (or the young at heart) on your gift list, how about doll house accessories?

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Christmas gifts for the doll house fan

Advent calendars

Chloe Findlay-Harder — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:07:33 +0000

I loved Advent calendars when I was a child. My mom made beautiful hand-made ones for my brother & I – and of course, my parents then had to fill a pocket with a little goodie each morning

I’ve been looking for a free pattern online for an Advent calendar, and I’ve found a couple! Here’s a flat, tree-shaped Advent calendar from HobbyCraft:

Or how about this charming Advent stocking garland from JoAnns:

There’s also this lovely felt Advent calendar from HGTV:

There you go – enough easy Advent calendars to keep the kids in your life happy until Christmas!

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Advent calendars