Homemade Christmas Gifts: Felt Needle Book

I made most of my

Christmas gifts this year.

Making your own gifts is budget friendly,

planet friendly, and from the heart.

If you read my earlier Christmas gift posts,

you will remember that we

have a lot of women

in my family who sew.

These are some of the same wonderful

women that I made those

scrappy bookmarks and

paint sample purse notebooks for.

I think needle books are so easy

to make and useful for the recipient.

A perfect gift for grandmas,

teachers, babysitters going off to college, etc.

This is a simple project

that you can make with your own

children, to keep or give as gifts.

Start with a few rectangles of felt,

with a contrasting color for the cover.

(We like to use recycled Eco-Felt

made from old plastic bottles!)

Fold them in half,

sew with a machine or by hand

along the "spine" of the needle book

and you're good to go!

You can decorate the cover

with felt and button flowers,

iron on patches,

felt applique....

the possibilities are endless!

I saw a really cute version of these

years ago in Family Fun Magazine --

they made felt alligator needle books!