All the homemade Christmas people over here please, lets share our ideas :) - SECOND EDITION :)

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OLD THREAD

We were all on about pinterest, jars, and where we are up to in our christmas planning :)

Lets go...

P.S. I obviously meant 4mm / 0.4cm and not 0.4mm! Got it from here if you're planning on trying again AshaBoo
Sure yours is lovely though, would be nice to see a picture!

Afternoon :)

Have been busy making a dinosaur garland for my nephew - I am four dinosaurs in and about another 10 - 15 to go I think!

Had a taste of the christmas pudding brandy - very nice, quite subtle in fact.

Have started tome tree decorations and made a couple of babushka key rings - plus my niece loved the clips I made her for her birthday.

I will sort pictures, I promise. I don't want you to think I am lying and actually going mad in Boots on their 3 for 2 gifts and buying plastic tat

Right have added brown sugar scrub to my list to make. Cookie & brownie in a jar is my next job but can't decide on the best recipe. Am tempted to try it out first but then at this rate will be doing cookies & brownies for the next few weeks. Any favourite recipe that you use? My dd1 adores choc chip cookies but tbh I've not yet found a recipe that I'm happy with. Oh well off to google some more!

Cheers Bun nice linkey (will use that site) and your tree is adorable.

My felt was about 0.4mm

Will ask DH to upload a pic as I am a technophobe.

For those wanting to make Glam but thought they'd missed the boat in terms of fruit, Lakeland have strawberry conserve kits - tin of ready prepared fruit for only £1.99. That's a helluva lot cheaper than all the strawberries I picked at the local PYO farm!

I am making slow progress with my homemade bits and pieces but any progress is good, right?

I now have about 40 wax crayons in various shapes, sizes and colours. I need to do quite a few more as a large proportion of them are blue so I need to even the colours out. I'm planning to sell them in packs of 4 for £1 - does that sound reasonable?

I've just bought some thin wire (after the crap gardening wire I bought yesterday) to make some button hearts with the gazillion green buttons I have . I really hope I use them up and that they sell well at the fetes as I seem to be spending rather a lot on supplies .

I'm still a bit stuck on what to put in the buckets...so far I have...a pirate pencil or a Christmas pencil, mini notebook, pot of homemade playdough (haven't made it yet as not sure how long it will keep), animal cutter, glow stick...I think that's it. Anyone have any other ideas? Needs to be very cheap or very easy to make...I wonder if I could put in some of the homemade crayon shapes...

What about a couple of easy Christmas tree decorations? (pom-pom snowmen and the like) - take up a bit of space, dead easy to make and you could personalise them if they're for people you know...

I have finished my advent calendar - pic on profile. It looks fab and I'm really, really pleased with it.

Have been busy finishing off my stuffed hearts this morning - adding decorations and now have about 25 of them the buggers :o Hope to sell at least half, the rest I'll have in our house or give as part of Christmas hamper presents.

Also made a sweet little heart garland for us - using baker's twining (thanks to whoever suggested it!), and then red and white stuffed hearts hanging vertically down.

ooh, getting super excited about Christmas now! :) :)

Chutney? Tick
Christmas pud vodka? Tick
Blackberry vodka? Tick

Marmalade still to do. If I can find the pedal for my sewing machine I'll get some crayon rolls done too.

You lot are amazing - some fabby ideas!!

I put the pic of the car roll I made on my profile, if anyone wants to see it. I marked the pockets 3" wide, and reinforced the stitching a bit to take account of them having cars in rather than crayons! The cars I had fit in nicely - they're about dinky car sized things, for reference.

help why half way through making my door stop does my sewing machine keep unthreading the needle????

Your tension is wrong firework - what material are you working with?

Is it at the start of a new thread love? If you haven't pulled the top bobbin thread through long enough, when the needle goes down it pulls it through.

ruede your name doesn't link/let us see anything? (think you might still have it on private?)

I was about to say that flubba! try pulling both threads about 10cm clear and hold them both in your hand as you're guiding the fabric through.

If the thread is snapping then you need to play witht he tension alittle

RuDewakening you don't seem to have a profile and I really want to see your car roll up case, as I just made one too!

If anyone would be interested, I have a giveaway going on at my blog at the moment, if you comment you will be entered into a draw to win one of my little shoulder bags, in a colour of your choice, it would make a nice Christmas present for someone!

I have so many things I want to make for Christmas, this thread is so inspiring!

Overmy you've got some lovely things on there.

The thread isn't snapping it's just coming out for the needle for sone reason. I'll check the tension but had already done 7 lengths. The thicker the fabric the looser the tension or the other way round?

are you holding the thread as you guide the material through?

Thank you Firework, I hope you get your sewing machine problem sorted.

Addict - no I'm not should I?

Right, my profile should be public now could have sworn I'd changed it ages ago! So car roll is there, along with a collage I did for another xmas pressie :o

firework, just hold both threads and the fabric as you guide it through. it will stop the thread shooting back and unthreading!

ruede love your collage thingamy! Looks great. And lovely car roll too - much bigger than mine cos I'm a stingey cow and didn't want to use up too much material!

Have embarked upon mini-Christmas bunting now too :)

Have filled my advent calendar with 'things to do' during advent - was lovely making it together. Cannot wait for Christmas now!

Ooh flubba would you consider sharing a few ideas for 'things to do' during advent please?

RueDe - your car-roll is fab! I wonder if I could manage to make a couple for presents for 2 of my mindees - would you mind linking the tutorial for me please? I vaguely remember it from the old thread but it'd take me a week to find it.