Christmas embroidery and sewing

As always I left it way too late to start making gifts for people, having started ‘thinking’ about Christmas fabric back in October I think!! I have gone a bit bah humbug about Christmas lately (particularly in current Covid times), and don’t like going and buying random gifts from the shops for people that they may or may not like. I like to put some love into what we give people now. It may not always seem like much, but home made gifts take a lot of time and care.

This year I found some nice Christmas coasters.

I have NEVER broken as many needles on the embroidery machine in my life!! Each coaster should stitch out in about 40 minutes, but with colour changes, and trimming the fabric parts each took about an hour! I can’t remember how many I made now, I think it was 20!

In the meantime, my husband was wood-working and machining wooden pens on his lathe!

I also found a nice Christmas Tree to make. I wanted to try this as it involved multiple hoopings, and I wanted to see how that worked. As always the instructions for all of these designs by Kreative Kiwi were absolutely fantastic, and easy to follow.

My husband then also found an easy, impressive make, on-line. Basically 2 9″ semi-circles sewn together. The way you then fold them makes them look like a Christmas Tree:

https://www.instructables.com/Christmas-Tree-Napkins/