Planning hand embroidered Christmas gifts 🎁📃


Planning Christmas gifts

Hi, Reader,

How are you?

I feel slightly overwhelmed by Black Friday offers, ads, and emails. There's so much pressure to buy everything and anything like there's no tomorrow!

Instead of asking you to buy anything, I want to encourage you to make things with your hands!

Time is precious, so plan your gifts ahead. Download my free Christmas gift-making planner > (Christmas gift making planner.pdf) and start brainstorming the gifts you could embroider this year!

Read these articles for gift ideas and festive pattern inspiration:

Some digital tools that can help with planning, project management, and gift-giving:

Embroidery Planner

This planner is designed to help you manage your hand embroidery projects.
It will help you to keep the track of time... Read more

Printable Care Instructions

These Printable Care Instructions are the perfect way to share care instructions with your customers or gift receivers,... Read more

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Basic embroidery stitches

18 basic hand embroidery stitches to start stitching like a pro. Video tutorial + Free sampler download.

See you next week!

Tatjana

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