Punched out Font by Tobias Summer: a 3d pixel font you print and assemble for personal use. It would make a fun garland or party banner.

The Threadknits contest at Threadless encourges you to bend your knitting or crocheting skills to re-imagining one of their T-shirt designs into crochet/knitting.

The Easy Christmas Craft Guide at Instructables probably has something to keep the kids busy over winter break.

You could probably pick up a few yummy treats as well in the Homemade Holidays Food contest.


Show off your Gingerbread creation in the Gingerbread Slideshow Contest, also at Instructables. In this entry, they blow them up on New Year's Eve! More Gingerbread house fun at Crafster as well as endless inspiration in the holidays and occassions:Winter holidays forum.


Making a retro silver tinsel tree with Threadbanger's DecoritYourself.

Last year's favorite make-it-to-suit gift is the fingertip mitts from Savvy Seams. These easy to whip up micro-mitts are the PERFECT office gift as everyone has scorched their fingers on bowls or cups coming out of the microwave. You can make them in any fabric to match the office or tastes of the person.


Another super quick gift for any girl/lady is the Buttercup Bag from Made by Rae. Shown is the Samia bag I made last year for my friend Debbie. This little bag zips together in an hour, only requires basic sewing skills and uses just TWO fat quarters. This version is free for personal use. If you want to make these to sell, you need this version. I've got two of these for sale right now if you want to take a look.