The Ultimate Sewing Christmas Gift Guide
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Ding, Dong! With only 6 weeks to go, it’s almost Christmas! What better way to get into the festive spirit than by making a sewing Christmas gift list for loved ones or yourself. We’ve put together The Ultimate Sewing Christmas Gift Guide with everything from haberdashery and jewellery to subscriptions and gift vouchers. We certainly wouldn’t be disappointed if Father Christmas put this bundle of presents under our tree.
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Subscriptions
1. Fabric clubs for baby quilts and Colour of the Month bundles by The Village Haberdashery. Options include Baby quilt selections for girls and boys with designer prints and you can also add matching solids. There is also a colour-of-the-month club to help build up your stash in 5 or 10 fat quarter packs. Ships worldwide. Prices range from £20.75 – £87.75 + P&P per month.
2. Monthly sewing boxes by Sew Hayley Jane. Options include Mini at £20 per month with 1 metres of fabric, fat quarters and haberdashery, Medium at £35 per month including 2.5 metres of dressmaking fabric, 4 fat quarters and haberdashery items or the Luxury box for £65 per month including 3.5m of dressmaking fabric, 5 fat quarters, independent dressmaking pattern and haberdashery. No minimum sign up.
3. Dream Wardrobe subscription by Fabric Godmother. Available for 3, 6 or 12 months at £39 per month. First receive a free style consultation with the Fabric Godmother and then for each month you sign up, receive a pattern from an indie pattern company with enough fabric to make it.
Homewares and storage
4. Jane Foster storage buckets from Elephant in My Handbag. Store all your sewing bits and pieces in these buckets, available in cat, fox or lion designs. £25 each.
5. Lampshade kit from Create Escape. Available in two sizes: 20cm (£11) or 30cm (£14). Kits contains all the components but you will need 0.5m of fabric.
6. English Paper Piecing Cushion Kit from The New Craft House. Available in three different colour ways at £24 each. The kit includes everything you need to make your own English Paper Pieced cushion cover.
Quilting and Crafts
7. Little Stacks of Fun from FabricHQ. For just £7 receive 5 randomly selected pieces of fabric measuring approximately 25cm by 40cm in one of 8 different colour ways.
8. Robert Kaufman Jingle Panel from Fabric Punk. This fun panel makes a bright Christmas stocking, great project to do with children. Priced at £12 per stocking.
9. Crossroads quilt bundle by Purl Soho. The bundle includes all the fabric, batting and thread you need to make a beautiful grid design quilt measuring 51 x 60 inches. Priced at $93 (USA delivery only).
10. Neon-Pop fabric bundle by Cloth and Candy. Receive a curated bundle of four fat quarter neon and metallic prints, measuring approximately 55cm by 50cm. Priced at £13.50.
11. Liberty print Floral Square patches by Alice Caroline available from Liberty London. Perfect for patching and making accessories. £9.95 per pack.
12. Mini Cloth stack Lotta Jansdotter Hemma by Celtic Fusion Fabrics. You Choose which fabrics you would like for your mono cloth stack. Priced at £13.20 for 8 pieces, each measuring 55cm x 22cm (fat eight).
Sewing and dressmaking kits
13. Railroad Denim Tote bag kit by The Draper’s Daughter. Make your very own tote bag with this compete kit including instructions, fabric and webbing tape. £25 per kit.
14. Cleo Dungaree dress kit by Tilly and the Buttons. Limited edition complete kits containing everything you need to make the new dungaree dress pattern. Available in 3 colour ways for both needlecord and denim! £39 per kit.
15. Bra making kit by The New Craft House. Available in five colour ways at £32 per kit, you’ve everything you need to make a Madalynne Simplicity 8228 soft cup bra.
Dressmaking
16. Named Clothing sewing patternsavailable at Dragonfly Fabrics. Have you been swooning over the new Evolution collection of patterns? Perfect gift for the more experienced sewist. Priced at £14.90 each (paper pattern).
17. Exclusive BOLT collection fabric range from Girl Charlee. Now featuring 28 signature new designs, these cotton spandex knit fabrics are available in coordinating colour stories. Priced per metre.
18 – Liberty Art Fabricsavailable from Abakhan. Priced from just £9.95 per metre, there are lawns, craft cottons, cords, twills and silks available.
Haberdashery
19. Tula Hardwareavailable from The Crafty Mastermind. The range includes shears, seam ripper, snips, straight scissors and micro tip scissors. Priced £14.99 – £40.99.
20. Starter Kitby Wear Lemonade. An irresistible celebratory kit containing scissors, tailor’s chalk, embroidery buckle, pins, ribbon, tape and more! Ships worldwide. €49 per kit.
21. Thread snipsby Ernest Wright & Son. Hard-wearing professional quality thread snips with straight sprung blades. Priced at £27.50.
Social Enterprises
22. Garments by Community Clothing. Community clothing is “a manufacturing co-operative with the aim to make excellent quality affordable clothes for men and women, to create jobs for skilled works and restore pride in Britain’s textile communities.” Garments include men’s and women’s jackets, jeans and knitwear. Prices range from £10 to £129 per item.
23. Yellow Prison Calendar Tea Cosyavailable at Fine Cell Work. Fortnum & Mason award winning tea cosy stitched by prisoners. Just one example of a range of products available through this charity, which trains prisoners in skilled creative needlework, undertaken in their cells. £49 per tea cosy.
24. Fabricsavailable at Offset Warehouse. This social enterprise offers a range of unique hand-picked eco-fabrics and haberdashery. Priced per metre.
Books
25. How to Print Fabricby Zeena Shah. “In this beautiful and practical project book, Zeena shows you how to create contemporary textiles though 20 easy-to-master techniques, each accompanied by a simple sewing project to put your prints on display straight away.” Published by David and Charles, October 2015. £14.99 from author.
26. Pattern Magic 3by Tomoko Nakamichi. “All the measurements and scaling information you need to start pattern making is included. As throughout the series, all the patterns are based on a basic block, supplied in the book. Thorough step-by-step instructions and diagrams will ensure that your own patterns translate beautifully to your choice of garment, while photographs of the finished garments will inspire you to create your own designs.” Published by Laurence King, February 2016. Price £16.56 Amazon UK.
27. No Patterns Needed by Rosie Martin. “If you want to sew your own clothes but are put off by the idea of cutting out pattern pieces covered with dotted lines and symbols, this is the book for you. Using Rosie Martin’s innovative method, you begin with nothing but a rectangle, circle or triangle of fabric and some basic body measurements. Next, follow the detailed step-by-step photographs and diagrams to complete your garment. You’ll need a sewing machine, but no special equipment or expensive fabrics. With plenty of variations suggested for each garment, there’s lots of room for your own creative touches, too.” Published by Laurence King, July 2016. Price £15.56 Amazon UK.
Jewellery
28. Clare Hillerby Ruler Earstuds from Beyond Measure. “Created by Manchester based jewellery, Clare Hillerby, these unusual earstuds are created from old wooden school rulers. Each stud consists of a piece of ruler, mounted onto an oxidised silver with a tiny silver tube rivet. The patina of the ruler and the hand made finish creates a piece of jewellry that is totally unique! Pairs are not matching but have been cut from the same ruler. Each stud measures approx 12mm across.” Priced at £34 for the pair.
29. Sewing Machine necklaceby Tatty Divine. “Get your craft on with the Sewing Machine Necklace. Laser cut in bright red and cream acrylic, this vintage sewing machine is detailed with hand-inking and strung with real wire thread!” Priced at £75.
30. Leather Wrist Ruler from Beyond Measure. “The Wrist Ruler is a useful and stylish leather wristband, beautifully etched with accurate measurements along its length, both in inches and cm. It fastens simply with a metal stud. It makes an ideal gift for those practical and crafty people in your life. The Wrist Ruler measures 17″ or 43 cm and is designed to be wrapped twice around the wrist.” Available in two colour ways at £20 each.
Gift Vouchers
31. Gift vouchers available from Sew Over It for classes or to spend in the online fabric, pattern and haberdashery shop. E-vouchers available from £25 to £205.
32. Gift vouchers available from Fabrics Galorefor the online fabric shop. Available in £25, £50, £75 and £100 vouchers.
33. The Dressmaker’s Ball, Leicester on Friday 12th May 2017. Take your sewing buddy to an evening of drinks and dancing! Tickets available at £48 each.
Stationary
34. Maker’s Workbook by Creative Industries. “Maker’s Workbook is a beautiful sewing journal thoughtfully designed for keeping safe the essential details of your makes.” £12.50 per planner.
35. Sewing Plannerby Colette. “Organize and prioritize your sewing queue for a unique me-made wardrobe!” $28 per planner.
36. Ruler washi tapefrom The Village Haberdashery. Who doesn’t want to wrap everything in tape measure tape!? £2.75 per roll.
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