Pine Cone Tree

Today I am linking up with three other blogs to share some of my Homemade Christmas ideas. I hope to link with these fine ladies every Thursday throughout this holiday season. First, I am linking up with Sara of The Fifth Street Palace and The Fifth Street Academy. Sara has become one of my new [...]

Felt Mailbox and Letters

I made this felt mailbox set this past weekend for my middle son for Christmas. I used the mailbox tutorial I found at Giver’s Log. I did not have to go out and buy any materials for this project, so I was able to frugally make this set. I even had the purse magnet set [...]

Homemade Christmas 2009

I will be posting more and more homemade Christmas gifts as the time draws closer to Christmas. I thought I would post what I have made so far, and then update this list weekly. I guess I have accomplished more than I thought I had. There are still many projects waiting in the wings. Some [...]

Toddler Backpack and Pants for Me

I am so happy with the way this toddler backpack turned out. It is going to be a Christmas present for my littlest guy. I used a cotton woven fabric for the outside. I followed the tutorial from Blueprints. The tutorial is really easy to understand and the backpack went together quickly. There is no [...]

Pillow and Crocheted Hat and Scarf

I decided to use more of the leftover fleece from these previous posts to make a pillow for my daughter’s bed. It is fairly large and was truly one of those projects where I was totally winging it. I machine appliqued her initial to the fabric before sewing everything together. The pillow is made of [...]

Fleece Skirts

I didn’t really mean to take a week away from blogging here, but that is what happened. I have been posting regularly on my other blog if you want to see some of the preschool activities we have been doing at Pocketful of Posies. Last week I posted about a few things I stitched up [...]

Crocheted Hat and Scarf

I started this hat and scarf set a few weeks ago and finally finished it this past weekend. It will be a Christmas present for my daughter. She loves pink and thought the yarn was so soft when she saw me crocheting with it. The yarn came from a friend who gave me three small [...]

Canning Jar Pin Cushion

Our weather has started to feel like Fall the past few days. With that change in temperature I have felt the need to get crafting for Christmas. I found this tutorial recently and thought I would give it a try yesterday afternoon. I ran into a problem when I realized that the lid wouldn’t actually [...]

Recent Sewing

I just realized that I took over a week off from blogging. (not that anyone even noticed) It wasn’t really a conscious break at first, but by Wednesday I just decided to wait until today to post again. I have enjoyed having my whole family home now that school is out. However, I have had [...]

Mini I-Spy Quilt

A couple of months ago I was in a swap on DSD’s. We were each to send 30 identical 6 1/2″ squares of fabric and we would get back 30 different squares of fabric (including one of the ones we sent). I think I just made that sound more confusing than it actually was. Anyway, [...]