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Christmas on a Budget

Christmas on a Budget, Embroidery, Gift Ideas, Sewing Tutorials

10 DIY Christmas Ornaments To Sew and Embroider

Add that touch of handmade charm to your tree this year. Make one or more of these easy DIY Christmas Ornaments.  There are 10 different ornaments to choose from. All you’ll need are some basic sewing or embroidery skills. Some ornaments are a combination of both.  Each tutorial has complete step-by-step instructions with lots of photos. They’re especially perfect for…

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Christmas on a Budget, Sewing

7 Easy Sewing Projects for a Greener Christmas

This year, perhaps more than ever, many of us are looking for ways to transition to a more sustainable lifestyle. We’ve all read headlines about the amount of waste that is generated world-wide over the holiday season. So with the holidays fast approaching, I thought I’d share with you some easy sewing projects for a greener Christmas. The great thing…

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Budget Savers, Christmas on a Budget, Gift Ideas, Quilting, Sewing

More Quilt As You Go Stockings

Quilt As You Go (aka QAYG) stockings are a great way to use up all the Christmas fabric scraps you have leftover from other holiday sewing projects. Each of the stockings in this post were made using my Quilt As You Go Stocking Tutorial. It has complete step-by-step instructions with lots of photos so even if you’ve never quilted before…

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Budget Savers, Christmas on a Budget, Gift Ideas, Quilting, Sewing, Sewing Tutorials

Quilt As You Go Christmas Stocking Tutorial

For the past several years, this Quilt As You Go Christmas Stocking Tutorial has been one of my most popular posts. It was one of the tutorials in my monthly Christmas on a Budget series back in 2011. The photos were taken at night so they were a little darker than I would have liked and while it did the…

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Christmas on a Budget, Gift Ideas, Handmade Homemade Holidays

Handmade Homemade Holidays – December Update

Do any of these sound familiar? You start the year with the intention to hand make gifts for some or all those on your gift list. Then two weeks before Christmas you only have some of those gifts made. Maybe even none of the gifts? So you spend those two weeks frantically making gifts for as many on your list…

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Christmas on a Budget

DIY Christmas Gnome Wreath

Have you seen the gnomes of all sorts cropping up everywhere? They’re all the rage in Christmas decor, inside and out. And is it any wonder… they’re just so much fun that you just can’t help but smile! You can find stuffed gnomes, gnomes appliqued onto pillows, big gnomes, little gnomes and everything in between gnomes. There are even tomato…

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Christmas on a Budget, Gift Ideas

How to DIY Your Christmas – 50+ Awesome Ideas

Hello and Welcome! I’m so glad you dropped by. My goal in everything I post is to help you create a home by hand. And that includes helping you have the handmade, homemade Christmas you’ve always dreamed of. In fact, just this past August, we launched a brand new membership called Handmade Homemade Holidays: Your Guide to a Debt Free,…

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