Stitched Gifts
Maureen Miller
How many of you are giving stitched gifts for Christmas this year? I'm
giving four petit point pictures, knitted socks, hat with ear flaps,
scarf & 4 pair gloves. I like to think the hand crafted gifts are more
appreciated than the store bought plastic imported goods. In fact I know
they are, for my generation anyway. But I'm curious to see how many
others give hand-made gifts?
Maureen
Dianne Lewandowski
In my personal experience, I only give out hand-made gifts if I know the
recipient will appreciate them. Many of us here have had very hurt
feelings when our gifts weren't appreciated (that's putting it mildly in
some cases). Some people are fussy about how they decorate their trees,
so even a seemingly innocuous ornament can be received with a prompt
snub. Others have distinct ideas about how they want to decorate their
house. So even if an embroidered picture took hundreds of hours, it may
not be received well if it doesn't match the decor or tastes of the
recipient. Still others have allergies, so a lovely pair of wool
mittens and gloves - which can take many hours to complete in fine and
expensive wool yarns - might not suit some.
If you can't stand the rejection, best not to give home made gifts.
Just my opinion. I've learned to bake bread as gifts. Never had a
disappointed recipient yet. :~)
Dianne
Mary
morning I wrapped, ribboned, and tagged 4 quilts for great nieces and
great nephews ages 3 to 7. They won't be excited about a quilt from
the great aunt they barely know, but their mothers are very excited.
The quilts are all 100% hand-stitched, in whole cloth technique, but
using large blocks and sashing. Each block has a different pattern.
The fabric is white, but the stitching is done in a strong color and
the sashing is another strong color, and each of the 4 quilts has
different colors. The quilts will fit a twin-size bed with dust
ruffle and are long enough for a pillow tuck, and may be put away
until the kids are in college or have their own homes, and that is
fine.
Cheryl Isaak
Miller" <heirloomsi...@hotmail.com> wrote:
There may or may not be a few beaded gifts and a scarf or two, but no cross
stitch/embroidery this year.
No time of late. But I do love to receive them and love when I have time to
make gifts for certain people.
Cheryl
Cheryl Isaak
Lewandowski" <dia...@heritageshoppe.com> wrote:
Or with cookies. I was paid the neighbor's son in chocolate chip cookies
once for baby sitting. (my that was a LONG time ago)
Cheryl
Cheryl Isaak
854c86c7-ccea-4394...@l13g2000yqb.googlegroups.com, "Mary"
<mlo...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Want to adopt me? LOL
Cheyrl
Lucille
"Cheryl Isaak" <chery...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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They paid you with the kid baked into a chocolate chip cookie. How did it
taste???? RD&H
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getting that. I gave Mark (my ex) a quilt I had started for him long
ago - never finished it because he hated the sewing machine out and I
didn't have anyplace to leave it set up. it isn't exactly as I
intended, but now he has it. Very masculine colors - gray fleece
backing - I figure with his current health issues I can afford to be
generous.
Otherwise, I don't give stitched gifts unless I know they will be
appreciated. Too many people think the only "good" stitching is done
by a machine.
linda
Cheryl Isaak
"Lucille" <lzo...@comcast.net> wrote:
Can you tell the sinus med leave me feeling "off"
I once paid the neighbor's kid off in cookies
Lucille
I'm sorry, I was just teasing.
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Fran
sure what to do with it. I told him he could do what he liked. He
mentioned a Frisbee, and I said if that's what he wanted, but that I
think it would make a very good one :)
He's going to frame it, I think.
Gillian Murray
> couldn't even spell her own name and figured she already tried Freds
> cherries - ach - no wait a minute, maybe that doesn't sound right
> either lol
Be nice, ladies. I just talkked to her, and she sounds like
shit..Probably explains the typing. LOL
Karen C - Calif
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> Just my opinion. I've learned to bake bread as gifts. Never had a
> disappointed recipient yet. :~)
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You haven't given any to me, have you? The shoemaker's children have no
shoes, and the baker's granddaughter doesn't like bread.
Jinx Minx
"Maureen Miller" <heirloomsi...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I'm giving crocheted potholders for Christmas this year. I'm a little
behind schedule at the moment, but if I can get through all of them I'll add
towel toppers as well. In past years I've given handmade scarves. I have
very rarely given crosstitched items as gifts. In the rare occasions I
have, they've been smaller personalized "custom" items that I absolutely
knew would be a hit (e.g. to other stitchy friends).
Jinx
Nancy
wrote:
If I ever get the bookmarks done (Cheryl's Celtic Knot) they'll
be gifted as well as an ornament I did for DM to give a good
friend of hers. My problem is everyone loves the gifts so
much, bookmarks, mouse pads, hand towels, they want to
"frame" them instead of using them. Sigh....
Nancy
Dawne Peterson
"Mary" wrote .
> For me it really depends on the intended recipient. However, this
> morning I wrapped, ribboned, and tagged 4 quilts for great nieces and
> great nephews ages 3 to 7. They won't be excited about a quilt from
> the great aunt they barely know, but their mothers are very excited.
They will likely cherish the quilts when they are older. My late ex-MIL
made a quilt for my son when he was quite young. At 8, this was not a gift
a boy would appreciate, so we agreed she would give it to him on a special
date, like his graduation. She told him that she had made a quilt, and he
would get it when he was a grown up. While my son was still in highschool,
this lovely woman died.
You know, he didn't forget. He asked his stepmother to look out the quilt
from among his grandmother's things. Stepmother found various quilts, but
they were ordinary use-up-the-old-clothes quilts. He persisted, and got
"his" quilt--mostly blue and a pattern of boats, recognizable right away as
a boy's quilt.
He appreciated a just for him thing, knowing she had been thinking about him
the whole time she made it.
Dawne
Liz from Humbug
wrote:
This year, the only stitched items are small felt Christmas trees
(ornaments) for my friends at work. Other than the one in black, for
our Gothic team leader, I don't make them with any particular person
in mind. I make a few more than what I'm going to need and then let
them choose - or not. I rarely stitch something for anyone I don't
know well enough to know that it will be appreciated. Only once have I
been really disappointed. A wedding tabletopper ended up being
stuffed back into the box on the day of the wedding and then was
scorched later when used as a pot holder by DH's brother.
Occasionally I will stitch something for each of my three sisters but
not every year.
Liz from Humbug
Walker Family
crazy quilts, one in shades of brown and turquoise and one in jewel
tones. The third quilt is pieced with fabric showing Europe where my
youngest daughter honeymooned.
The doll clothes are for charity, my granddaughter and niece. They
are the American girl doll size - 18 inch dolls. That's been a fun
time - I've even made gold jackets, fairy outfits and ballet outfits
in both sewn and crocheted varieties.
Other crafting - acrylic painting of a fox for my oldest daughter and
a purse created from the cover of an old Reader's Digest condensed
with co-ordinating fabric liner. The pattern used a hot glue gun but
I'd stitch more of it next time. She teaches literature and I'd like
to find an old Shakespeare or Poe to make next time. I also scrapbook
and have made my niece and nephew pages since their birth, mostly of
outings that we did with them. They are 10 and 11 so now they include
pages on sports, band concerts, etc. Moni
Joan E.
> Lol I was going to let that go, but in the next post I saw she
> couldn't even spell her own name and figured she already tried Freds
> cherries - ach - no wait a minute, maybe that doesn't sound right
> either lol
SHEENA!!!!!!!!!!!! LOLOLOL!!!!
I often give hand-stitched gifts to at least a few people but not this
year. I've been working on my nativity (for me) and the up-coming
grandchild's blanket.
Hmmm. Baked gifts might be just the thing this year!
Joan
Kalmia
Not me. I got shot down a few years ago when I handed out ndlpt
ornaments and got nary a thank you from most recips. I guess they
wanted to know I'd spent real MONEY on some junk.
Unless the recip does ndlpt herself, I won't gift in that manner.
Right now, no plans for any needle gifts.