A tutorial for making the hand embroidered fabric placemats that I made as a Christmas present last year.
Design Your Own Embroidery Patterns With GIMP for Free to Make Embroidered Gifts
Create your own custom hand embroidery designs easily for free using GIMP graphics programme.
Creating Your Own Makeshift Light Box
When you need to do a bit of tracing, a commercial light box can be pretty expensive. Here is a free makeshift alternative to commercial lightboxes (and to holding you pattern up against the window)!
Handmade Treat Bags and Gift Boxes
Fancy packaging doesn’t have to be expensive or hard. Make these fancy boxes to wrap your next handmade gifts and treats.
Handmade Gift Wrapping Ideas to Present Beautiful Handmade Gifts
Don’t spend a fortune on gift wrapping that goes to waste anyway. Here are some handmade gift wrapping ideas that are good for the budget and the environment. Gift wrap can be expensive and not all of it is recyclable. The good news is, you don’t need to buy gift wrap to give beautifully wrapped […]
Handmade Gift Ideas Part 4 – Food Gifts
Part 4 – Edible Gifts of the series on handmade Christmas gifts. I’m quite excited about some of the ideas in this one, I have a few more gift ideas in the bag.
Handmade Bath and Beauty Gift Ideas
Stuck for handmade Christmas ideas? This is part one of a series of articles on handmade gift ideas.