Home Made Christmas Presents - Yes or No?

[L00b]

As some of the threads in the knitting group illustrate, some people really do have minimal appreciation of how much skill, time, effort and money can go in to crafting something hand-made (just to clear it up: having someone hand knit you a Christmas jumper is not a quick or cheap alternative to buying one...)

Amen to that, Hecate - my Mrs has been knitting jumpers/pashminas/etc. for many of our family/friends since at least October. Some she has knitted from angora wool, which is really expensive, as it turns out. She's finishing the last jumper at the moment (intricate Xmas thingy with multiple colours, reindeers and whatnot), going to be a close call with the dates.

 

I have made paintings for family and friends, am doing a couple this year. Always highly personal (i) because I generally have very little personal time available to do any of that, and (ii) because I always paint it for the recipient, using the recipient's family as subject-matter (difficult to explain, as quite an abstract style, but each recipient knows the painting is 'their family').

[llamatron]

I make as many gifts as I can-which is not that many:

dvds

cds

photos

photos turned into paintings (although not with me painting them-that would be ****e)

 

I have also made a couple of gift bags out of old jeans-they look great, I was impressed with my sewing but took a ridiculous amount of time

 

They have always gone down really well-at least to my face!

 

If anyone made me a gift it would be gratefully received-it takes soooo much effort and time.

 

The worst christmas presents are cheap plastic stocking fillers-straight to the charity shop after christmas they go-usually unopened...and mugs, as a child you don't want a mug and by the time you are an adult you have 20 christmases of gift mugs in your cupboard! bah humbug!

 

The best present has to be homemade wine! Wish I knew how to do it/had room!