Ready for a Handmade Holiday Season?

by Tsh on October 28, 2008

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Photo by Jessica Jones

Sewing For Christmas

On November 4, Simple Mom is showcasing the sewing submissions for Holidays by Hand, a six-part festival promoting your crafted talent celebrating the holidays.  If you’d like to be linked here, please submit me your stuff!

It can be anything related to sewing for the holidays – whether you’re making a gift, creating a tree skirt, or whipping up some shopping bags, we’d love to showcase your talent. Nothing is too simple or too complicated.

Please post your creations on your blog and email me the link by November 3.

Other categories are:

Paper Crafts, November 11

Ribbons and Thread, November 18

Knitting, November 25

  • hosted by Laura at One of Three
  • contact Laura at lauraruthhealy(at)gmail(dot)com by November 24 with your knitting project

Quilting, December 2

Food, December 9

  • hosted by Ann at Vintage Mommy and One Bag Nation
  • contact Ann at lilyolil(at)comcast(dot)net to submit your recipes or food project ideas

Let’s encourage frugality, ingenuity, and self-sustainability this Christmas season – and I’m looking forward to seeing what you create.

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1 Kelly from Almost Frugal October 28, 2008 at 4:42 pm

My entry is going live tomorrow- simple, frugal and green… stay tuned to find out! Thanks again for participating.

Kelly from Almost Frugal’s last blog post…How to Look Fabulous, Frugally: Part One

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2 jodi @ bpr October 28, 2008 at 7:41 pm

love this idea – thanks for hosting! :)

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3 Vintage Mommy October 28, 2008 at 10:52 pm

Looking forward to blogging together – love the sweet photo!

Vintage Mommy’s last blog post…Holidays by Hand: Good Ideas from Around the Blogosphere

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4 Sarah H. October 28, 2008 at 11:06 pm

Sounds like a great series! I can’t wait to see everyone’s ideas.

Sarah H.’s last blog post…Organize My Wardrobe: Clothes Clutter Control Part 2

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5 Alana @ Gray Matters October 28, 2008 at 11:10 pm

Thanks for the motivation – I’m inspired to sew my very first thing EVER!

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6 Christi October 28, 2008 at 11:33 pm

Too bad – my craft doesn’t fit into any of those categories! But I’ll still be checking out the other submissions.

Great idea!

Christi’s last blog post…and the winner is…

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7 Nikki October 29, 2008 at 2:59 am

Perfect. We’ve decided to make this Christmas more about handmade gifts instead of random purchases that no one actually uses anyway. I could really use some great ideas, so I will be following this closely!

Nikki’s last blog post…Crouching Fairies, Hidden R2D2

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8 deb October 29, 2008 at 1:54 pm

What a fabulous site. Just found you through Nesting Place. I’m a new mama to twins and have a home based business so anything to simplify I’m ALL about! I just subscribed to your site. Look forward to seeing more. warmly, Deb

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9 threeundertwo October 31, 2008 at 5:40 am

This is great! I definitely am doing a lot of crafting for the holidays.

I adore those stockings! Absolutely adore them!

threeundertwo’s last blog post…Finished for Friday: Halloween edition!

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