Crochets for christmas....

Hi Zelmarq! I did prepare my Christmas list and it is still waiting for some funding so I can get to go shopping. haha.. But this time, I am very, very careful on how to budget everything and will just buy practical and inexpensive gifts for everyone in the list. I sure hope I know how to crochet because anyone would love to receive those. Good luck to your crocheting and I hope you can finish it all before New Year. Take care and have a nice day. :)

Hello Zelmarq. I guess that you will be kept very busy making the crochets for Christmas for your friends and relatives. You are so nice a friend and family member to them all. I get to know this from what you are doing right now. I hope that you will also have a good rest without working too hard for the nice gifts being prepared for them. Take care and may you succeed in making as many crochets as you can in the sohrtest possible time so that you can finish you mission before Christmas. Have a good day, dear friend.

Right now I am concentrating on Birthdays, which occur before Christmas. I really am somewhat clueless. If just the right thing comes along, I will get it, usually at a discount. I have some ideas for things to make, and I am trying to figure out how to get busy and get it done. I think your crochet bags are excellent ideas, perhaps you can work on them while watching television or something. I do not have much time for handwork right now, but would love to. Good job, being resourceful and economical.

I understand about the money being tight. I am making a lot of gifts myself. I made a couple of scarfs, and I am going to try making some beauty products. I collected some bottles which I am going to decorate and filled with baths salts.

I like your crochet bags Zelmarq. I'm sure they'll be very much appreciated. I'm on a tight budget this year too so I've already made a few crocheted gifts. I've completed a shawl (pic attached) for my grandmother and a scarf for my niece. I've also been working on a photo album slideshow for my mother in law. Last year I started a Christmas album for my brother in law since he lost all his photos after his house flooded twice. I was able to find 20 years of family christmas photos and gave him an actual scrapbook and made a computer disk of all the digital photos I could find or scan. This year I added on to the first 20 years with some photos that are special to my mother in law and I'm turning it into a DVD so she can watch it on TV whenever she wants.:)

Get some yarn when it goes on sale at Wal Mart or your local craft store. Make scarves for everyone. You can make one in less than a day and people love them. I did that a couple years ago and everyone loved them. I had other relatives wanting me to make them one. You can also make hats to match. Most people love it when you make them something. It is so much more personal.

Hey Zelmarq, I love crocheting alot and I crochet more around christmas time then all year long because as you say money is tight and a lot of gifts to get. So like you I dig into the yarns and threads I have and make multiple items for family and friends. Hats,mittens,scarves,booties,placemats, coasters,dollies, throws,purses,pillow dolls,doll clothes,blankets,pillows,throw pillows,hair accessories,sweaters and other things. I try to also find good deals on yarns and threads at yard sales or rummage bins at stores. I love that bag by the way. Do you crochet by pattern or by your own design? I usually follow patterns unless I get inspired. I seriously do love that bag..do you have a pattern for it or know where I can get a pattern like it? I htink crocheting is something that needs to be passed on to the next generation of children if not it might become extinct after awhile, because nowdays everyone just rather go to a store spend a few minutes choosing something or grab on the go. It takes us longer then that to choose a pattern and the colors..lol I hope it is something that will last for a long time to come. Well, Happy Crocheting.

well..........good luck to you.wish i knew how to crochet.its the most ideal and inexpensive gift.

Everyone I know loves when I give them crocheted items! I have to make 2 stockings for my husbands kids - he'd like them all to look the same. They only take a day or so to do, but I'm running out of time!!!

I have the same problem with lack of money to buy Christmas presents. I have to buy presents for 30 people, as my hubbys family is large. Your idea of making crochet bags is great. Many people appreciate homemade gifts. I know it is time consuming for you, but it is better than wasting your life hanging around bars. Probably you can listen to music whilst doing this crochet. Good Luck to you. I might make homemade cookies for some people for Christmas gifts.

Wow, you know how to crochet a bag? Actually when I was in my high school years I studied how to make a crochet and after many years I have forgotten it because I have not practice it. Now, I want to make crochet things too. I want to make stuff out of crochet. Can you give me an advice where to get patterns and somehow learn back how to do it? I am very much interested to learn now.

Christmas is the only time of the year that i really get to splurge on gifts. The dearer the person is to me the more effort and sometimes cost i would be spending on the gift. It's not the cost really that matters but the thought and effort that I put into in looking for gifts that they would really like and that would really be useful for them. What you are doing is actually very good and I even envy you for such creativity and ability to make gifts. The effort and love that you would be stitching into each thread will surely be appreciated and warm the hearts of the people who will be receiving them. enjoy!

Until the last few years, I would make gifts for 15 to 20 people every year. They didn't want store-bought from me, they wanted handmade! I will be making some hand-stitched journals and photo albums... paper is CHEAP, and books are a nice gift for everyone. You can use your thread to stitch them, as well! I will make the covers beautiful with collage or bits of special fabric. You could crochet the covers, slide in the book board, and stitch the covers to the first and last signatures, or make a spine piece for the edge. http://www.altered-book.com/coptic-binding.html To finish them, make a bookmark of fine crochet, maybe using beads. That would make it perfect and very special!

I think that is a fabulous idea, Zelmarq! I love to get handmade gifts from friends and family. It definately shows that a lot of effort went into the gift. I hope everyone on your list appreciates the gift you are giving!

I love to make things for people for Christmas! I am going to be meeting my future mother in law at Christmas this year and am very nervous about it. The one thing that she could come up with as a possible Christmas gift that she might like was slippers, so I searched high and low until I found a pair that I liked enough to bother making. I would love to show you the photo, but I don't know if I can attach it to my answer or not. I'll try though. I also make scarves and bags, and even sweaters to give as gifts and there's nothing at all wrong with that. I think such gifts mean a lot more than something that you simply went out and bought.