Yes, it is almost February and I still have some Christmas notes to make. I am proud to say that we have managed to take down the Christmas tree and lights though, so that's something. I wanted to post on the hostess gifts I made this year for Christmas. The idea was that these would be accompanied with a plate of cookies, however I was lucky just to get a couple of these to their intended owner. The cookies were one step to far. I have high hopes for next year though!
I made some tea towels with Christmas designs. They were fairly simple designs which just used an outline stitch and a few french knots here and there. But they came out pretty and I think you could jazz them up however you wanted with trim or beads or what have you.
The first designs were free patterns from The Floss Box. This is a great embroidery/craft blog at any time, but she has great design ideas for Christmas. I put three ornaments on each tea towel and tried to mix up the patterns with each towel:
A couple close ups of the ornaments:
I also did a couple of Christmas trees designs as well. This is from the always awesome Badbirds blog. Again, this blog is great at any time of year for people who love to embroider. She usually has a free pattern every month and they are fun and quirky and like nothing you'll find on any other site. The Christmas tree pattern is lovely:
So that's the last of my Christmas crafts. I'm reminded again this year that if I want to get things done in time for Christmas - I need to get started sometime in June! I've book marked a ton of great patterns and ideas from other bloggers in preparation for some really organized crafting for 2010. We'll see how it goes!
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