While it may seem difficult to believe, the holidays are right around the corner. Usually people tend to fall into two camps this time of year. They either love the holidays and are singing Christmas songs in the middle of October, or they keep a bah humbug attitude until the 24th of December. Whatever your take on this time of year is, we've rounded up eight super festive books that will put even the grinchiest of Grinches in the holiday spirit! Put on your Santa hat and make this holiday season the best yet!
Trim The Tree: Christmas Ornaments To Stitch, 55 Handmade Designs
This book features a wide variety of 55 designs that range from traditional to whimsical. You'll find fun projects that appeal to the very young to the young at heart. You'll even find projects to make for your beloved pets!
Many of the ornaments are easy to make and can be made in an hour or two using general sewing and craft supplies. These festive projects are especially wonderful for using up your ever-growing stash of scraps!
Handmade Christmas Cheer: Festive Holiday Projects to Embroider, Applique, and Quilt
With this unique collection of holiday patterns, best-selling author Pat Wys highlights the handmade touch. Enjoy many creative moments as you adorn festive projects with hand-stitched embroidery, beading, and cotton or wool appliqué.
- Choose from 16 projects that honor tradition - with a touch of whimsy!
- Create stockings, bed and table linens, coasters, place mats, a quilt, and a tree skirt, and more!
- Mix and match delightful embroidery designs to enhance your projects!
Simply Modern Christmas: Fresh Quilting Patterns for the Holidays
You'll love these crisp, eye-catching quilts that rooted in tradition but with a refreshingly updated style! In a departure from her much-admired floral patterns, Cindy Lammon demonstrates her range with pretty pieced quilts, stockings, a tree skirt, and much more - all composed of simple shapes!
- Select from 14 cheery projects that lend themselves to both modern and traditional fabrics
- Enjoy these quilt patterns year-round; patterns can be used to produce stunning quilts for any season!
- Find easy, confidence-building designs for beginning and intermediate quilters and sewists!
WE LOVE TO CRAFT—CHRISTMAS: Fun Stuff for Kids - 17 Handmade Fabric & Paper Projects
Have yourself a merry handmade Christmas! This books includes tips and tricks for successful sewing and crafting.
This year, give your family and besties something they can't find at the mall! This book will teach you how to make 17 of the cutest things you’ve ever seen. All you need is paper or fabric! You’ll learn how to make barrettes, pillows, ornaments—you name it. You’ll even learn how to make Christmas stockings for everyone in your family! Tips on sewing and picking fabric will make you the best gift-giver ever!
Crazy Quilt Christmas Stockings: Make 7 Holiday Stockings
Learn to master the art of crazy quilting while creating beautiful gifts and festive decorations!
Crazy quilting is a specific kind of patchwork (piecing). Irregularly shaped pieces of fabric are sewn together into a collage of textures and colors to create stunning, artistic looking quilts. The style was popular in Colonial times when women sought to make use of every bit of fabric, recycling clothing to patch worn-out coverlets. In Victorian times the trend became more extravagant when women sewed bits of fancy fabrics - silk, velvet, and satin - into blocks, then into coverlets. The seams were decoratively embroidered; the whole piece was sometimes embellished with beads, lace, ribbon and buttons. This book teaches today's seamstress how to make 7 holiday stockings using traditional crazy quilt techniques! The finished projects make lovely gifts and are sure to be cherished for many holiday seasons to come.
Christmas Patchwork Loves Embroidery: Hand Stitches, Holiday Projects
- Gail explains it all: which needles to use, how to choose thread, how to mark the designs on fabric, how to make each stitch, and more!
- Featuring 17 festive designs to bedeck gift tags, pillows, wall hangings, Christmas stockings, table runners, a bag, and much more!
- Enjoy a satisfying and relaxing way to decorate your home for the holidays - or create one-of-a-kind gifts from the heart!
Christmas Is Coming: Applique Quilt Patterns to Celebrate the Season
Brighten your holidays with a timeless collection of 13 cheery projects! In her distinctively beautiful style, Cheryl Almgren Taylor presents a festive follow-up to her popular book 'Deck the Halls'.
- Spruce up your home with pieced and fusible-applique projects such as table runners, wall hangings, a bed runner, pillow, and Christmas-card holder!
- Create holiday motifs ranging from a delightful children's Christmas pageant to stockings, poinsettias, candy canes, ornaments, and more!
- Find exciting ideas for gift giving, including special gifts with elegance and sparkle!
Busy quilters can find time to create heartwarming and beautiful quilts because each one is made simple and fun, one block at a time! Piece together cozy, festive quilts with a charming, vintage feel. You will want to curl up in front of an open fire with chestnuts and one of these lovely, Christmas-themed quilts!
For added convenience, this leaflet includes a CD with vintage holiday images that can be printed on an inkjet printer and transferred onto your quilts!
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