Oh and you have one of those friends or family members with a birthday so close to Christmas (or actually ON Christmas) that you'd hate to leave out one or the other?
I'm sure I'm missing a lot of ideas but here's the ones I can think of!
Here's a list of awesome gifts for crafters in your life:
- Any craft:
- Organizing boxes for craft supplies
- Labels for boxes
- Notebooks
- Magazine subscription (or e-magazine subscription) to their favourite magazine.
- Gift card or vouchers:
- Tickets to a craft exhibition or event
- Art or handcrafted item made locally or from a favourite artist.
- Baby-sitting time so if the crafter is a parent - they can actually craft! :)
- Seamstress (sewing):
- Voucher to fix or tweak sewing machine
- Or a gift card to the local fabric shop
- A new sewing machine or serger
- Thread
- Fabric
- Patterns or books filled with patterns
- Scissors
- Measuring tape
- Chalk or washable/fading marker
- Pattern paper (I hear this stuff is pretty expensive - so most people use baking paper or newspaper to trace patterns.)
- Pin cushion or magnet for pins
- Pins
- Seam ripper
- Pinking shears (they're the scissors with zig-zag edges to prevent fraying)
- Container for haberdashery
- Knitter:
- Needles
- Interchangeables
- Circular
- Straight sets
- Double-Pointed Needles (DPNs)
- There's different materials too!
- Bamboo
- Wood
- Plastic
- Metal
- Stainless steel
- Yarn
- Or a gift card to the LYS (local yarn shop)
- Patterns - printed and put in a binder or paper-free and e-mail them to him/her.
- Books - either full of patterns of techniques
- Knitting kit - something you could put together yourself (and also applies to a crocheter):
- Stitch markers
- Measuring tape
- Stitch holders (moreso for knitting than crocheting)
- Row counter
- Gauge and/or needle measuring tool
- Pouch for needles/hooks for travelling
- Pencil
- Notebook
- Small crochet hook for picking up dropped stitches
- Little toppers so stitches don't slide off the needles.
- Needle holders - come in a wide variety.
- Crocheter (Many gift ideas are applicable from the Knitter):
- Hooks
- Tunisian crochet hooks
- Double-ended Tunisian crochet hook
- Sets
- You could buy cheap metal ones and use polymer clay and bake creative handles for them.
- Patterns, books or technique books
- Yarn
- Gift card to a local yarn shop or online shop
- Drawing tools:
- Paints
- Cleaning products
- Sketch books
- Brushes
- Sponges
- Pastels
- Pens
- Paper
- Pencils
- Erasers
- Canvases
- Frames
- Markers
- Carrying case for portfolio work or finished pieces
- Carrying case for drawing utensils
- Refills (i.e. Copic Ciao Refills)
- Scrapbooker:
- Paper
- Scrapbook albums
- Plastic refill cover pages (these are used to protect the individual scrapbook pages - usually 12x12 inches (30cm x 30cm) )
- Inks
- Stamps
- Washi Tape or other decorative tapes
- Gloss paint
- Crackle Paint
- Embossing folders
- Stickers
- Rub-on Transfers
- Embellishments
- Hole punch of various shapes
- Embossing powder
- Embossing heater
- Glue
- Double-sided sticky tape/squares
- Pens, markers, water-colour pencils, pencils
- Die cuts
- Gift card
- Cosmetics Maker:
- Essential oils
- Silicone molds for soap shapes
- Jars with lids for lotions/body butter
- Little tins or tubes for lip balm/salves
- Digital scale for weighing ingredients
- Gift card to purchase other ingredients
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