Fifteenth day of December

Very easy idea to decorate your home is to sew something from a fabric that is especially designed for some purpose. I bought this bench cloth for sauna from a local fabric shop. They sell the similar fabric. The width is the exact for the sauna bench. You just buy as long as you wish it to be and then sew the side edges. The same idea is easy to use for a table cloth too. Just buy a fabric designed for a table cloth. Remember ask them to cut it to the size you want. If you need to make two buy them in two pieces. At fabric shop they have better possibilities to cut big fabrics than many people have at home.

Fourteenth day of December

I designed and knit this easy seat cover and warmer from 100% woollen loose end  yarns. If you knit one make sure it will be big enough for your purposes. Then wash it in a washing machine with 40-60 Celsius degrees. The cover shrinks approximately 40% and felts too so it will be thicker and warmer.

Thirteenth day of December St.Lucia (free chart)

It is St.Lucia Day and I designed for you a small cross stitch chart with the theme. Notice the shades of the chart are not real -I for example pictured the white shade as light blue- because I wanted the chart to be easy to read. Just follow the chart key made for DMC threads to code the real shades of the color symbols.

Have fun and remember the copyrights! To get familiar with the copy rights see Free charts site.

Twelfth day of December

Easy way to make some Christmas decoration is to cut snowflakes out of the paper. You can use white copy paper. It is interesting to try out some other colored papers too. These paper snowflakes look pretty in the window, but also at walls or doors. You can also hang them from a thin yarn to the ceiling so that they seem to levitate in the air. This kind of craft making is easy to do with children too. Just fold the paper and show them how to cut it.

Eleventh day of December

Simply Sparkling Christmas Beading by Dorothy Wood is a book full of ideas to make bead works. If you are not interested don't skip this book. See it through at your library to find out few interesting ideas to make bead projects. I like especially about the snowflakes and the Christmas cards. For sure I will try them out!