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Preparing home made gifts for Christmas


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So I’m well aware we are more than six months ahead before Christmas arrives. But it did make me think, if I want to give crochet gifts to a lot of people for Christmas including my friends and family, I am going to have to start now and crochet one a week to at least make enough gifts by Christmas.

So how do you work out a plan to craft for Christmas? 

First work out what you can make that doesn’t take too long? For me crocheting is what I will be gifting. A scarf takes too long and it’s summer at Christmas in Australia. So the best crochet item so far that I have made that doesn’t take too long to make is a crochet koala. Which I feel is a great Christmas gift being an Australian native animal. Plus it’s cute. 

So to make a plan, what you first need to do is work out what will take you less than five hours to make. 

Then work out how many friends and family you want to make this for? 

Work out how many weeks till Christmas. 

Can you produce one craft gift a week to meet your goal? Noting, it’s ok if you have a few weeks spare to accomodate sickness, trips away etc. If you have too many to make maybe push out your goal to next year’s Christmas. Or cut down and give one per family / couple rather than every person in the family. You don’t want to stress yourself out trying to craft gifts because that takes away the joy of crafting the gift. 

Work out the cost. For me a koala uses three different coloured yarn colours. However, to varying degrees does not use the whole yarn for one koala. So I could get quite a lot of materials out of one yarn. I would need grey the most. 

Yarn for me in Australia costs $2.50. So it’s not too expensive to create. Although it does add up and for 20 gifts that is $50 roughly. That is why you want to push out the crochet gift to one a week, so instead of paying $50 upfront you can pay over each week $2.50 which is less daunting. 

Last year, was my first year crocheting and I made big plans that my family and friends would get different crocheting plushies that I thought they would like. I started in May and finished in June. And no, I didn’t finish making the Christmas gifts, I gave up. Why? Because it was stressful for me to follow new patterns every time. That’s why this year, everyone gets a koala. One pattern. 

Also, I decided I was new at this and just wanted to focus on gifting to my family only and I focussed on that rather than spending every weekend crocheting and feeling stressed that it wouldn’t be good enough or finished in time. 

That’s why this year I have a plan. Because I still think a homemade gift is nicer to give and more personable, even if everyone gets the same thing. 

Plus, I can only get better and better at crocheting koalas the more I do. So win / win. 

Please comment below what you will be making as a Christmas craft gift for your family and friends? 

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