If you love making fabric flowers, here's a way to use them in a beautiful piece of holiday decor. This candle wrapper fancies up even old, scratched-up candles, and it can be easily removed from one candle and placed on another.
Click on the 'Check it out' button below for a free, step-by-step tutorial teaching you how to make one!
Clover Kanzashi Maker Giveaway
Enter to win your own set of Kanzashi Makers (includes all three styles) from Clover. To win the giveaway, leave a comment below about what you're most excited about making for the holiday season. We will draw a winner (via Random.org) this Friday, November 25, 2011.
UPDATE: The winner of the giveaway is Maureen Mcgraw! Congratulations Maureen and thank you to all those who participated!
Diane Gilleland founded CraftyPod.com back in 2005. Since then, it's grown into a blog, a podcast, occasional videos, eBooks and online classes about making stuff. Her first craft book, Kanzashi In Bloom, was published by Watson-Guptill. These days, she's obsessed with crochet, English paper piecing plastic canvas.
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I'm moving in January, so this holiday season is being spent making things to add personal touches to the home I'm moving into. :)
I knitted all the pieces for a sweater for my husband about three years and this year I'm bound and determined to sew them together and finish it as a Christmas gift!
Love this idea !!My well water is undrinkable so I KEEP A BOTTLE OF BOTTLED WATER om the vanity in the bath room. This will be a great and easy way to jazz the bottle up as well as to decorate all of the plain candles in my house.
I am most excited to complete a crochet puppy plush duo for a co-worker, they are coming out so cute! It is nice to try a completely new pattern for a project that is going to go to two little ones for holiday gifts. I'm also enjoying taking some time to make notes for myself on Ravelry so I learn from my mistakes, or so I hope. ;)
Oh wait, maybe they will need pretty collars decorated with flowers when they go off to their new homes!
I'm looking forward to making some simple ornaments (scanning tutorials now) with my girls to keep and to give as gifts. Maybe I should make kanzashi!
I've used Kanzashi Makers to make single flowers, but I'm pumped about linking them together to form a candle wrap. I just have to find the right fabric!
I'm hoping to make everyone a little treat bag with various goodies in it, like candles, soaps, homemade candy etc.
It's hard to say what I'm most excited about, as i tend to go a little overboard on the handmade decor. However, being back in my home state of Virginia usually gets me in the spirit for natural gifts: grapevine wreaths, dried flower centerpieces, and lots of reindeer sculptures made from dried willow branches. I also have started a new handmade tradition in my family, suggesting only handmade gifts be exchanged on Christmas day. It's more meaningful, and since cookies and pies are handmade, its a little sweeter.
I've been making some Christmas items with yo-yo's (on a clover yo yo maker!)
Looking forward to creating some charm bracelets for my daughter and daughters in law. Just got the hang of metal stamping, but always like trying new things.
Cookies are my favorite things to make for the Christmas season. It's what I usually give as gifts.
We moved last year, and last Christmas was a slap-together mishmash. I'd like this coming Christmas to have a more cohesive theme and not just 'looks kinda like Christmas' feel.