This year has been particularly economically challenging for us so all my WIP this week relates to making Christmas on a shoestring!
Luckily, we sewists are blessed with a stash of beautiful scraps but it’s not always easy to think what to make for our non-sewing friends and relations, who probably won’t love love a needlecase or pincushion nearly as much as we would. So I decided to make a collection of jewellry rolls…
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| Here are my finishes so far. |
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| This is my favourite. |
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| Inside there are three zipped pockets – two are approx 9″ x 9″ and one is approx 9″ x 18″ so these could could equally be used for makeup, pens, notebooks etc… |
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| These two use up scraps to the bitter end! |
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| And these still in progress! |
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| I also have this finish, which didn’t use scraps. |
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| And some decorations made by re-purposing and old book… |
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| This one is never-to-be-repeated! I followed a tute and got horribly confused and ended up with this. It is my favourite but I have no idea how I did it! |
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| Finally, I sewed some birds.. |
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| And Hearts. |
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| And made some reusable fabric wrapping |
Here is a tute for the fabric bags and paper hearts
Janine @ Rainbow Hare
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M-R
What beautiful gifts, Janine! The recipients are very lucky!
mammafairy
wow, love those origami stars!
and the jewelry rolls will be loved!
Amy
beautiful gifts. I know about making gifts and staying on a budget. our family has decided to do handmade gifts this yr.. and it has been fun pulling from my stash and scrap bin.
LynCC
Very nice set of work here. THanks for sharing. I've picked up some good ideas. :)
Allison
the homemade pressies are looking great – there are some very lucky people on your gift giving list this year :)
Yay for happy mistakes! the ornaments you made look fabulous! I'd love it if you linked them up to my Christmas party over here: http://patchworkdream.blogspot.com/2012/11/deck-halls-with-us.html
happy sewing! :)
TheaM
that's a wonderful origami website! thanks for the link!
Patti
You are so ingenious Janine! Everything you do is so beautiful, even if you aren't sure how you did it! All your gifts will be so loved.
Deborah
Very fortunate people who receive one of these lovely gifts from you!
Mina
The jewely rolls look great! And I love the look of your paper stars
Catherine
I love the trade winds fabric-those jewellery rolls look stunning
benta atSLIKstitches
Some great ideas thre!
Mandy
Your fav jewellry roll is my fav too! Lovely! Looks terrific! Great job!
Caryl W
There are some lucky people that will receive these great gifts!
Beth
cute finishes!
Archie the wonder dog
Thanks for all your wonderful ideas!
Sarcastic Quilter
Great finishes. I love those jewelry rolls.
Gemma@prettybobbins
What great paper decorations! I think I'm going to have to try some origami ornaments :)
Valerie Reynolds
2012…what a great post to rejuvenate under our Tuesday Archive elephant theme….your elephants are so unique and made into the perfect jewelry rolls!