My passion for repurposing old ripped jeans just has to be directed towards Christmas decorations – in particular, a DIY mini stocking advent calendar. Perfect for mini gifts, chocolates, Christmas activities (read on for a free downloadable list of activities for your own advent calendar). But be warned this project takes a little time – note …
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With the countdown to Christmas beginning now is the time to sew a few gifts for friends and family. Here’s a round up of my recent 12 Days Of DIY Christmas Gifts series. Sewing Gift Ideas Sashiko Cute Coin Purse This coin purse is the perfect size for coins, gift cards, small selection of makeup …
Today I am super excited to be hosting this DIY Felt Christmas Ornaments Kit post from Lisa of Cucicucioo Hey, there! My name’s Lisa and I’m the founder of Cucicucicoo: Eco Sewing & Crafting! I publish tutorials for creating beautiful and fun clothing and objects with respect for the environment. I love making something cool …
Welcome to the last of my DIY rustic Christmas decorations. These are inspired by bits of wood left over from various DIY projects. The wood off cuts are transformed into beautiful simple trees. It seems like a life time ago we were brainstorming DIY rustic upcycled decorations to make for a local craft fair, rather than …
It is no secret that I love working with old jeans it’s such a versatile fabric. Somehow over the years, I haven’t made any denim Christmas tree decorations… its time to fix that!! These denim Christmas tree decorations are easy to make. As I pack up my sewing room up this week I am particularly …
Welcome to my first recycled and rustic DIY Christmas decorations for this year. I love Christmas, the build up, the decor, celebrating time with loved ones. There’s always a but, I’m not so keen on the consumerism. The adverts persuading us Christmas will not be perfect without spending money. Here’s to making, reusing, using what you …
Today I am sharing with you a tutorial for making fabric pompoms – strung together they make beautiful garlands, they can be placed together to form a wreath or hang as baubles from a Christmas tree. I don’t know about you but time fly’s by and it’s almost Christmas!! I love this season but I’m …
Today we finished trimming up, adding lights to the pallet Christmas tree I created last year. I love the addition of lights, they add the missing sparkle:) If you would like to make a pallet Christmas tree the tutorial is here. However I neglected to share how to make the fabric handsewn Christmas decorations. So …
I’ve finally hit upon an idea for recycling cotton reels… upcycled Christmas decorations. I hate throwing cotton reels away, but generate quite a few over the course of the year. I have to admit I love this idea! You will need: cotton reels double-sided tape scraps of wool embroidery floss beads spray paint To make: …
Dare I confess we have become quite attached to the boxes of sweets available at this time of year?! Our excuse is that surely three mini bars of chocolate from a sweet tin is far less than a full normal size bar of chocolate.. but then we have a largish plastic box left. Time to …
What to do on a wet weather sleepover? We recently had our friends children to stay for 22 hrs, it rained and rained and rained. I decided on an impromptu theme “Christmas” with a variety of activities roughly fitting into the theme. The activities included making bath bombs, bird feeders, air clay snowmen, Christmas biscuits …
Today is challenge 8 of the #12DaysofChristmasDIYChallenges The challenge – Use up those old chip packets instead of throwing them away – and make some Christmas decorations. I had several ideas for this challenge, but failed to be organised re saving crisp packets in advance:( So here’s one crisp packet decoration! Wash your crisp packet and turn …