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I first saw these earring holders over at Handmade Mommy's blog. Her tutorial is here.

This is a great gift idea for using scraps of fabric. It involves no sewing. I made my first two following the tutorial exactly.

The next three I used foamcore and pins. A friend showed me how to do this. It makes a great difference in how nicely it stretches and stays in place.

Instead of the glass, use foamcore cut just slightly small than the glass in the frame. (I'm sure a local frame shop would help you with this.) The pins just slide in.

My daughter wants to make some for her friends for Christmas too.

Using a larger frame, you could have two or three rows of ribbon for hanging earrings on.

I have seen this done with screening attached to the frame, and over at

Trey and Lucy's with lace.

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These could be done up in Holiday fabric or just colors to match a kitchen. This tutorial can be found at Sew4home


This tutorial is from SewMamaSew

Both were easy and fun to make up. I also like the one from Pleasant home.

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This little bag could be a lunch bag for a co-worker, or a knitting bag for a friend. The pattern is free at All People Quilt 1/2 yard of exterior and lining makes this bag. I did use a fusable fleece lining.

The lining even has small pockets. Fun and fast to make up.

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The Pink Penguin, did a wonderful tutorial on making these fabric baskets. This one with the Christmas fabrics, is the size of the one in her tutorial.

I enjoyed it so much, that I played around with size and ended up with these other two. The top one will most likely go to a neighbor with popcorn, candy and movie gift certificate for Christmas.

I envision the other two with bath products or manicure items as a gifty for a friend. Would be cute with a small knitting project (a skein of sock yarn and size 2 needles). So many potentials.

My favorite size is the middle one. For this one, I cut fabric:

After piecing some fabric together I cut two 3.25" x 12", the onsnaburg, that I used for the base, was cut 8 x 12. The small handles are essentially the same size. It's a very fun way to use scraps.

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Eleven little gift card wallets sewn together and tucked into a page protector in my Early Bird Notebook. I like to gift video rental gift cards or gift cards to local book stores, as well as to coffee shops etc. Hope to get a few more projects made this next week.

I'm not making one of these this year, but here's a link for a recycled card basket.