Christmas 2023

Forgot these - found them in my pics! Three bowls from my daughter's wedding last April. Set them with Christmas ornaments, surrounded them with beads and coloured gravel and added the lights and tinsel.

I put up two trees, one for the kids with disney character and toy based ornaments, The other one has a lot of glass ornaments and ornaments I've had for a long time, bought some of them from England, it has pink lights and is topped with a pink star wearing a gold crown. The man

Christmas card has arrived safely, footsore and weary, 😩 all the way from America.🇺🇸 And with a great selection of stamps which probably cost! I collect stamps to send to charities, and had decided to take a pic of these and couldn't find them!🤔 I had binned them!🤪 A quick shufty through the

Here is the fairy I made today for my little Christmas tree Wooden bead for head and cotton fabric , arms are a pipe cleaner and I added mini acorn beads to hair and fairy is holding a couple , her undershirt is voile but you can't see that

I had a day out in Canterbury , and bought a Christmas bauble kit, and started making these bauble, they have wooden 3 D inserts that you make up and put in side. The wooden inserts can be painted or glittered what ever you want to do even the outside bauble can be painted. I made up the little

Ooops the Christmas decorations are slowly starting to appear 😁

This section is for completed crafts that were made for the Christmas 2023 period. If you want to show Christmas crafts from other years, or work in progress please post them in their designated area in the forum, yarn and fabric or paper craft etc. Leave this section clear for new makes. Thank you

20 Christmas Stockings made for Chloe and Sarah's Tree. I've never been so organised. x 😂

Big thank you to the Secret Santa (Linda) for my present.  There is a very clever small sewing box which I can have on my desk which opens out and has all the sewing bits and pieces you need.  Also the most gorgeous pair of fingerless fingerless gloves which I absolutely love.  I get very cold hands

I took Alia and Aurin to the mall and we saw this massive Christmas tree that you could stand under for photo opportunities. Getting them both to look at the camera at the same time proved a little difficult though.🤣

Getting there - complete with this year's deccies from Forum Friends! And nice smelly stuff underneath!

My card came this morning , and the second one of Christmas plus a beautiful hand knitted snowman I shall put on the tree when I put it up on the fourteenth of December. Thank you so much Tracey. Xx

This is my Christmas challenge as posted by Liz, I updated an old cushion and made it more Christmassy. For more information on how I did this check the Challenge post in groups. The first picture is the original cushion before I upgraded it.

I am still waiting to hear back from a couple of people about the greetings swap. Check the main post about the greetings swap that is pinned to the top of the Christmas 23 category in the forum, to see if your name has been added to the list, note there are two lists one for secret santa and one

I have finished my bag and love it.  I'm thoroughly enjoying appliqué.  

Chloe and Sarah asked for knitted Candy Canes and Christmas Stockings for their Christmas Tree this year. Thought I'd show you the 20 Candy Canes mum has made. She really enjoyed making them too. It's so lovely making things that you know are going to be used. x

Our penguins are continuing to grow in popularity, we had some worried people thinking we weren't doing it this year until a neighbour showed me the facebook post and I was able to put their minds at rest. I was across the street because that was the only way i could fit in the whole house and displ

This is the best year yet for flowers. I love these flowers. So pretty. x

Two makes so far:

I've received a Greetings Swap from Linda, also include the most gorgeous sewing machine zipper pull 😀🎄 Thank you xxxx 😀

Had a happy morning making Christmas cards, it makes a nice change from sewing. Table is covered in paper, glitter, card, glitter card, glue and feathers etc. I'm now covered in glitter 😀

I wanted as many people as possible to see this message so I'm posting it here even though it's not the right place for it, I'll delete it once I get enough responses. I have this idea forming for a greetings swap that can run alongside the secret santa. I would like as many of our members as

Okay so its far too early for me to put up the Christmas decorations. However at the weekend I set up a Hot Chocolate Station and as we progress through the next few weeks it will start to look more Christmasy each week.  The squirty cream is kept in the fridge, I've just added it to the photo so