CREATIVE CHRISTMAS GIFTS PERFECT GIFTS TO MAKE AT HOME

If the thought of Christmas shopping fills you with dread, then Creative Christmas Gifts is the book for you. Here are more than forty exciting and enticing ideas for gifts you can make yourself in the comfort of your own home. Settle down to choose perfect, personalized presents for family, friends and colleagues, and those wearisome and often frustrating expeditions to the High Street will become a thing o the past.

In this imaginative collection of original creations, every kind of taste is catered for: the country garden romantic and the studious, the classically elegant and the unconventional, the practical and the gourmet. Included is a veritable feast of decorative gifts to adorn the home throughout the year or annually at the festive season, as well as a host of useful presents and creative ideas for gift cards and packaging. Many of the projects are specially designed to involve the whole family in their creation.

Just as family and friends will be delighted to receive their creative Christmas gifts, so will you find great enjoyment and satisfaction in mastering the craft techniques employed in their creation. From machine applique and patchwork, pressed flower arranging and stencilling, to dough-modelling, wood-working, cookery and lotion-making, Creative Christmas Gifts is sure to introduce you to some new and fascinating crafts, as well as enabling you to practise existing skills to great effect.