some cotton cord, crocheted

paper and glue, pattern was found online

more complicated, 3 dimensional paper and glue

used corks, and knife and glue

a cork dog

Gnome, cork base, bead, material from socks, the white fluff on this one is store bought but could be just cotton balls or wool fluff

my old boss made these for everyone over 35 years ago. cut small blocks of wood and painted them with a little brush. He made a bunch at once

Local beeswax with red crayon coloring. I have a set of ornament molds for this, which I think they still sell, but the making of them is straight forward, they hold up well, and the smell is heavenly and inexpensive. If you break one, save it and remelt at some futire point if you need to remake some or make candles.

fired clay. We had access to kiln time many years ago, made by child with cookie cutters and rolled out clay. We have stars and trees.

sewn by a friend

Cut shells and glue, Bought from local person

more complicated, well to me it is, but my neighbor made ornaments a few years with a precision cutting tool

cut and painted thin plywood from the same neighbor

Just combed wool and some thread, this one is getting quite old, I probably need to remake a new one and use this for doll stuffing, but maybe not this year, she has alot of good memories. You can make smaller ones for tree ornaments, my smaller ones wore out but are easy enough to be made by children

wool roving wrapped around wire frame, very easy and satisfying. Again, these animals have been around a great number of years, they used to be more identifiable as sheep and a cow

scraps. a cone cut out of an index card with a staple or glue holding the head in place, the head a bit of t shirt or other knit around some wool, tied at neck with thread. fabric scraps, glue, thread. A spray painted walnut shell for a cradle

These are done with store bought modeling wax, it is beeswax based, so nice to hold and mess around with. You could probably make this, I would say use the mix that people say to use for beeswax wraps, so beeswax with pine resin or something to make it a bit more maleable.

more modeling wax, a couple squirrles have survived, and one blue fish or dolphin

This years gifts. My inspiration was thinking about how to have non plastic non made in china laundry baskets. A few years ago when I had the bright idea I bought a large spool of made in Rhode Island cotton sashing ( clothes line) . I finally decided to try the project this year for christmas gifts. Sewn with a wide zig zag stitch with random thread colors I picked up lurid polyester threads from our sewing co-op re-use area that I didnt think people would want to use or would match for real sewing. Dont know to what use my family members will actually put them to. Maybe laundry transport. They are big enough

Last year I did pretty much free gifts. I had plywood scraps around from barn rebuild. The corn hole game was fun to cut out, woodworking plans are on Lowes web site for free, I painted with random excess paint and sewed up the beanbags with scrap fabric. For one family member, I gave 2 kitchen chairs, they were free, I take them aprt in the usual fail area of the legs and repair the dowels and reglue, sand, primer, cut our new seat bottoms from the excess plywood scraps, this family member had one they had done farmhouse style with a particular fabric and paint, so I gave the bones ready to go, they wer thrilled.

Sometimes I give ornaments, or home made soap or homemade jams or...

This one was fun, but not totally cheap, and you have to get the blanket factory scraps, so access and money. But, likely other fabrics could be used. Still less expesnive by alot than a pendelton blanket.

This is a good thing to remember is an easy and nice looking option if faced in teh future with worn blankets. The can be repurposed in differnt ways to one "new" blanket, and in strips like this is one way