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Showing posts with label Xmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Xmas. Show all posts

Friday, 11 December 2015

11 Xmas Gift Tutes For Last Minute Hand Makes


Stuck for last minute gift ideas but want something handmade and personal?


Click through to each of the 11 tutes below - they're all easy makes you can make in anything from an hour to a day.




Have a happy handmade Christmas :D




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Friday, 6 December 2013

Are You Hanging Up A Stocking On Your Wall?

 
Are you hanging up a stocking on your wall
Are you hoping that the snow will start to fall
Do you ride on down the hillside
On a buggy you have made
When you land upon your head
And you've been 'Slade'

Suddenly it's 1973, I'm 10 and loving this great new Christmas song by the band Slade (click here if you'd like to hear it!).
 I'm still loving it 40 years later and I'm going to be bold and suggest that some of the best Christmas songs ever came out of the UK back in the 70s and 80s, far too many to list here but an appropriate opening to a post about my very first Christmas Stocking.

At work here in Manhattan, we Manhattan LQS Staffers are having a Christmas Stocking competition.  I haven't made a stocking before but knew immediately it had to be something incredibly appropriate to me, the one British member of the team.

I adapted an Elf Stocking pattern available here on Sew4Home, adding batting and a few other changes and used a Timeless Treasures panel of the Union flag (needs must as, unfortunately, this panel is designed incorrectly with all the white sections the same width - this is a pet hate of mine when I see quilted/crafty variations of my country's flag across the internet and also when I see the white sections created to different widths but upside down!!!).


Do you think any of the customers will guess it's mine?


My favourite Christmas song is actually Fairytale of New York (1987) by The Pogues and featuring Kirsty MacColl, if you haven't heard it you've missed a treat so here's a video link and also a link to the lyrics which might come in handy for those struggling to understand the Irish accent!


Have you hung your stocking yet and what's your all-time favourite Christmas song?


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