Wow- have you checked out all of the amazing Christmas gift ideas on the web. There are free patterns and tutorials everywhere on how to make beautiful creative gifts. This might be a way for you to stretch your Christmas money and then use what is saved for some food storage :0)
Here are a few places to start looking for ideas- there will be many more as we get closer to the holiday!
Living Grace made the cute dish mat pictured above. She offers twelve tutorials of some very nice looking gifts here
Sew, Mama, Sew has a list of ideas for every day of the month- so, click on each day to see bunches of ideas! You can also check out her 2007 and 2008 lists as well.
Freda's Hive started a list of craft ideas for Christmas last January! See her list here.
The major magazines have craft projects galore. Here are a few Martha Stewart, Better Homes and Gardens, and Country Living.
Hopefully you can find a project among the list- if not just type in your request on your search space at the top of your screen- for example type in "free pattern for crochet snowflake"- you'll have tons of free patterns pop up- enjoy!
