Tag: gifts
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Crochet Dolls
I made these as a leaving present for someone, to have a baby. I adapted the design from a teddy pattern, adding hair, necklace, and forming shoes. I was told she liked them. I enjoyed making them, using my creative side. .
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Crochet Noughts and Crosses!
I made this as a Christmas present for my nephew a couple of years. It started out as a 3 by 3 mat and turned it into noughts and crosses, I had fun adapted a flower design into the playing pieces, complete with a bag to hold everything. My nephew liked it. I also made…
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Crochet baskets
I made some little crochet baskets, decreasing sizes, so they form a nest of baskets. They look quite cute and are very pretty in variegated wool. They could hold jewellery or keys or similarly small items. I also made some larger baskets, in treble crochet, for displaying items. They are certainly easy to pack away…
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Easter and Mothers Day Gifts
For Mothers Day and Easter I am making crochet baskets and flowers. The flowers look very pretty and can be made in all colours and be put on brooches, hair slides and sewn onto clothes. The baskets are quite small, maybe the size of the palm of the hand, and can be made into little…
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Friendship bracelets as gifts
Why can they make such nice gifts? I ran a base teaching how to make them at a Jamboree last year. They can be made from just a few different knots, in a wide range of colours in a range of designs, quite quickly. Beads can be used too. I like making them, from embroidery…
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Christmas Decorations
I am going to World Scout Jamboree next year and so I need to fundraise (it may be fun, but not cheap). To raise some funds I am making mats and christmas tree decorations to sell at my church and after cub meetings. Using lovely glittery threads I can make some lovely shiny decorations, which…