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are you making any of your gifts?

my dad's going to get handknit socks, but probably not until janurary.

not sure i'm going to be making them myself, but have every intention of purchasing handmade gifts for the holidays!!

I think I am more of a facilitator of other people making homemade gifts. There is gonna be a lot of glass underneath the trees this year!
I actually am making 2 house numbers for my people (parents and friends) so I hope that they like them!

I think I may do tea towels. Some type of fancy needlepoint. I am horrible with hand stitching, so I am hoping to improve my skills with some of those easy Sublime Stitching patterns!

I made my 19 year old dd a pair of thermal knit jammies.

I purchased 4 oz. merino superwash sock yarn at Kimberlyr.com and traded soaps for beautiful knitted cable socks for my sister.

I purchased two skeins of http://www.threeirishgirls.com/catalog.php?item=156 and traded warming bags for teacher, family and husband gifting for labor of 2 pair of cable gloves.

I made my friend and pastor Souls Awakening cloth napkins.

I need to clear out the cut customs and finish finals week and I am hoping to do jammies for my two young sons also for x-mas.

People are getting cloth grocery bags from me, with embroidered pouches (Sublime Stitching patterns).

ohhhhh! I bought large amounts of fabric for cloth bags but never found the time to dive into them.
They would make great holiday gifts but I doubt I would have time to make any in time.

wow. i'm feeling a bit lazy with all of the glorious crafting going on!!

My oldest son is home from college, so he is coming over tomorrow to turn some wooden pens with me. I think I might talk him into making some for gifts for him to give for Christmas. I guess I won't charge him for the lessons I am giving him. It's a good bit of quality time for us together and that is enough of a present for me this year.

Opie wrote:My oldest son is home from college, so he is coming over tomorrow to turn some wooden pens with me. I think I might talk him into making some for gifts for him to give for Christmas. I guess I won't charge him for the lessons I am giving him. It's a good bit of quality time for us together and that is enough of a present for me this year.

oh my gosh Opie! I book marked your page as I have some family that would love something like this in the future.

I am in awwwhhhh of your talent and the lessons learned you share with your son. I thought it was the coolest thing as a child to spend time with my dad turning my ash baseball bat. Your product is very refined, projecting skill and technique. I think they are wonderful.

Enjoy your time togther.

Oddly, for me this year it's crocheted scarves. I found this amazing blue color yarn - that matches the gray/blue eyes of the two friends I'm making this for. I think I'm going to embroider white snowflakes on them too before they're done...

Thank you eapoosmama for the nice words. Unfortunately my son never showed up today so I guess he had to meet some friends he has not seen in a while. I still did get a chance to make some more pens. I recently bought a coffee tree burl that looks awesome when turned. I will get the magnifying glass and pen up on my site soon if you want to look at it.

About a year ago, when we went back to North Carolina to visit the parents, my brother-in-law gave me some wood from a plum tree that was on my wife's grandparents property before some developer bulldozed the farm and turned it into tract homes. I am going to make a pen out of that plum tree so she can have a piece of her grandparents with her wherever she goes.

My dad is probably getting the coolest gift of anyone I'm making him a book safe to hide his sweets. You know, you open up a book and after the first few pages there's a secret compartment...very old school spy-eqsue. I'm worried that I'll like it so much I'll want to keep it!

opie - what a wonderful gift!

maggie and inna [and everyone else] - please take pictures! i would love to see how everything turns out.