Stuck on Lace through this Handmade Holiday Season

This book is packed full of great info!

Singer® The Complete Photo Guide to Sewing - Revised and Updated Edition

1200 Full-Color How-To Photos

The Complete Photo Guide to Sewing – Revised and Updated Edition is the one reference every sewer needs. Its 352 pages and 1,200 photographs cover every aspect of fashion and décor sewing. Sections include choosing the right tools and notions, using conventional machines and sergers, fashion sewing, tailoring, and home décor projects. Included are step-by-step instructions for basic projects like pillows, tablecloths, and window treatments. Sewers from beginners to the skilled will turn to this book again and again.

The lifestyles editors of Creative Publishing international have created many trusted and timely classics on sewing, needle arts, and all kinds of crafts. All of our books are researched, written, and edited by professionals and artisans who have practiced and promoted their specialties for years.

So a while back I posted this project of a lace trim Christmas tree and I guess I have lace on the brain.

I don't think I ever knew how to sew or attach lace to fabric because I guess I was always crafting with it in unusual ways. But, wow, this is so cool! I didn't think it was so easy.

Visit SewingIdeas.com for helpful tips, products, and much more!

Now on to day 16 of our:

15 (Well now 16) days of Holiday Goodness Giveaways!

Simply leave your answer to each day's question in each day's comment section and we will randomly pick a winner of a book from each day's commenter. You can enter every day but you are only eligible to win 2 times! (You can go back and answer previous day's questions. We will be drawing the winners after the first of the year.)

16. What do you leave out for Santa?

My Answer: We leave the traditional milk and cookies. The cookies though are my Great-Grandmother's recipe. We think Santa is a very good buddies with my Dad and so being that my Dad LOVES his Grandmother's sugar cookies, Santa does too. They are in fact always gone Christmas morning.

Be sure to read the comments of others, maybe you can have a good laugh or get a great idea!

 

Comments

[Sherelyn Nichol]

This looks like another fine book that needs to be added to my collection. Thanks for reviewing the books for us.
My son is 36 and lives 800 miles away. When he was a child, we always left milk and cookies for Santa. Santa always had to leave some crumbs behind. And he never drank all his milk. Merry Christmas!

[wendy m.]

We've done the traditional cookies and milk, too, but we've also left carrots for the reindeer.

[Heather]

I dont leave anything out anymore... but lots of best wishes for a safe journey!!

As a child we used to leave things for the reindeers - carrots and a bucket of water!! Occassionally Santa would be left beer and bickies!

Have a fabulous day :)
Merry Christmas from Australia :)

[Josie]

Santa eats homemade cookies (whatever I've baked that year), milk and of course carrots for the reindeer.

[Gayle Richmond]

First, I would like to thank you for these past few weeks. You have really made me think and remember some very good things in my life. I think we get so caught up in the day to day living that we forget to reflect and enjoy the good times.

I haven't left out anything for Santa since my baby was 8 (almost 30 years ago.) When we did, we left out the ritual cookies and milk and of course the cookies were always gone the morning and the milk glass was half empty.

[Tamara]

I have very much enjoyed your thought-provoking questions this month. We do milk and cookies for Santa -- whatever Christmas cookies we have in the house. This year my daughter suggested carrots for the reindeer, which I thought was very creative and original, until I read the other comments posted here! LOL!

We usually also leave a note for Santa, giving him permission to help himself to the cookies and milk. And he always does!

[Casey]

Cookies and milk, always, but this year my son received some "reindeer food" from a friend at preschool. It was fancy stuff, made from candy corn, white and mint chips, and what looked like some bits of shredded wheat. Rudolph approved.

[Carrie]

Hmm, when I was kiddo we used to leave out our homemade sugar cookies with colored sprinkles and a glass of milk. Today I can't really do that because my dog would eat it. Including the milk. She's kind of a pig. But Santa loves her anyway (so do we) and she always gets presents, too.

[billie gordon]

No children in the house means no treats for Santa.

[Singer sewing machines]

The book will help someone like me who wants to just sew and sew.