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DIY Gift Ideas

Category: <span>DIY Gift Ideas</span>

Show the love with creative handmade gifts. Your DIY gifts for Christmas, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Easter baskets, Teacher Appreciation and other occasions give a little of you along with your gift. And how special is that? (Someone, ahem, hangs ornaments made by preschool students 20+ years ago on her Christmas tree every year.)

Browse through our ideas, inspirations and projects for making handmade gifts. We have tutorials on making coasters, bags, jewelry and more in our collection of DIY give ideas.

Handmade Gift Ideas

Finished Needle Case

How to Make a Sewing Needle Case

Learn how to make a sewing needle case that can hold all of your hand sewing needles! Make a second needle case for your sewing machine needles! A perfect project...

Make an EPP Mug Rug - EPP Mug Rug with Snack 4

Make an English Paper Pieced Mug Rug

English Paper Piecing (EPP) is gaining traction as part of the slow stitch movement, but making a full-size EPP quilt is a long-term commitment. Thinking of an introduction to EPP,...

Finished project tote bag

Make Your Own Project Bag

I love to corral my project items into bags when they are works-in-progress so I can see all of my supplies without having to dig deep in a big bag...

Homemade Gift Ideas

Jessica Long Snowflake embroidery kit

Handmade Gift Guide

Handmade gifts - and gifts for hand makers - come from the heart. It's lovely to think about the recipient when putting our own hands to work on a unique...

Best tools for Hand Embroidery

Embroidery Gift Guide

Stitchers love to stitch, and they love to receive handmade gifts. We have put together an embroidery gift guide with projects, tools and supplies that are good for the embroiderers...

Kate Colleran Tannenbaum Trio

Quilt Gift Guide

We've rounded up some of our favorite quilt gift ideas -- whether you quilt the projects to give as gifts, or give a little joy to the favorite quilters in...

More DIY Gift Ideas

Two finished diy sleep masks

DIY Sleep Mask

Make your own DIY Sleep Mask with our free pattern. This is a perfect project to use up left over fabric and small pieces of batting. It's a quick and…
Sashiko coasters finished

How to Make Sashiko Coasters

Learn how to make Sashiko Coasters with this step-by-step tutorial. You can use any Sashiko stitches to make these coasters - perfect for trying out different stitches that you might…
Vintage linen zip bag with boxed bottom finished 1

Zippered Pouch Tutorial with Flat Bottom

I can't seem to have enough zippered pouches for all of the little things I want to keep organized! From my cosmetics to embroidery projects and English paper piecing, zippered…
Folded card wallet finished 4

How to Make a Card Holder Wallet

Make your own card holder wallet to keep just a few cards handy in your pocket, backpack or purse. Perfect for slipping in your license and a credit card so…
Mug Cozy finished 9

How to Make a Mug Cozy

Keep your hot beverage warm longer with a simple to make mug cozy. A perfect sewing project for beginners -- a quick and easy sewing project for a small gift.…
DIY Shoe bag finished shoe bag ready for shoes

DIY Shoe Bag

Shoe bags are perfect for travel, keeping dirty shoes away from your clean clothes. DIY shoe bag is a simple sewing project, making a drawstring bag the size to fit…
Cord Keeper Finished 5

DIY Cord Keeper

Do all of your electrical cords get tangles? Does your extra cord drawer look like a big pot of spaghetti? You need some cord keepers! This is a super easy…
oven mitt finished 1

How to Make an Oven Mitt | Free Downloadable Pattern

Make your own oven mitt with this FREE downloadable pattern and step-by-step directions. Perfect gifts for moms, dads and grads - you can make oven mitts in any fabric design.…
Mason Jar Pin Cushion finished-7

How to Make a Mason Jar Pin Cushion

One of my favorite notions is a Mason Jar Pin Cushion. The pin cushion holds my pins and needles and the jar holds some of my threads, buttons that need…

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