This is a round up of the gifts I made this year. It's not as many as in previous years - I had to cut back a bit or I'd have been holed up in my craft room all year! I started fairly early, October I think, and made a big pile of Christmas cards as well.
This little cloud mobile was easy to stitch up from felt. I made three of them, one for my nephew, one for Jonny's nephew and one for my goddaughter. The raindrops are scraps of cotton fabric.
The quote on the front was hand embroidered. It comes from quite a beautiful little poem by Langston Hughes:
APRIL RAIN SONG
Let the rain kiss youLet the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid dropsLet the rain sing you a lullabyThe rain makes still pools on the sidewalkThe rain makes running pools in the gutterThe rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at nightAnd I love the rain. 
These were presents for my workmates. They are coloured glass nail files, and I made a little sleeve for them from the green openweave ribbon.
Stitched a few beads at the bottom for added sparkle...
... and attached a flower and ribbon at the top. I was going to make one for myself to keep, but of course I never quite got round to that and I'm unlikely to do it in the future!
This wasn't made by me, but
for me (yay!) My mum made it - you might recall seeing a similar one in her garden in my first
Real Gardens post.
That's it for the round up this year. Did you give or receive anything handmade?
