Sew Advent Calendars: Count Down to Christmas with 20 Stylish Designs to Fill with Festive Treats

by Debbie Shore

Overview

Count down to Christmas with Debbie Shore. Sew unique, personalised advent calendars for your loved ones, and fill them with their favourite festive treats and handpicked goodies that they’ll really treasure. There are 20 designs included, from traditional flat-pocket calendars to hanging cones and festive pouches, for both adults and children alike, along with a treat-filled calendar for the family dog! The book contains all the techniques needed to make the calendars, and every project is shown clearly step-by-step, with helpful tips and advice throughout. Using Debbie’s friendly and easy-to-follow instructions, it’s time to get crafty and create a new festive family tradition!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781264973
Publisher:	Search Press
Publication date:	11/05/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	76 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Debbie's first book on making cushion covers was published by Search Press in December 2011 and went straight to number one in the Amazon bestseller charts. She has since published ten other best-selling titles: Sew Useful, Sew Bunting, Half Yard Heaven, Half Yard Home, Half Yard Gifts, Sew Brilliant Bags, Half Yard Christmas, Half Yard Kids, Half Yard Gifts and Love to Sew Quilted Covers and Cosies and Love to Sew Sewing Room Accessories, with three other books in production at the moment. In 2015, Half Yard Christmas won the silver award for Best New Craft Book in the International Craft Awards. In 2016, Half Yard Gifts was highly commended in the Best Home Sewing Book category in the Homemaker Book Awards.

Debbie hosts a sewing forum [www.shortcutstosewing.co.uk] with over 1800 members, where she answers their questions and introduces new sewers to each other. She has over 100 videos on You Tube [thimblelane channel] demonstrating sewing projects: the channel has over 90,000 subscribers and the total views now exceeds 10 million. Visit her new website: www.debbieshore.tv

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Sewing Essentials 8

Sewing know-how 12

Adding treats 15

Counting down 16

The Calendars 18

Triangle Pockets 18

12 Days of Christmas 22

Christmas Cottages 26

25 Steps to Christmas 30

Felt Pyramids 34

Twig Pouches 36

Lace Pocket Calendar 40

Pleated Pockets 44

Calendar Girl 48

Snowman Calendar 52

Quick Cones 56

Calendar Cubes 60

Advent Bunting 62

Treat Bags 66

Four-week Calendar 70

Santa Express 74

Snowball Calendar 80

Promise Tree 84

Canine Calendar 88

Hanging Mittens 92

Templates 95

Index 96