12 Days of Christmas - Day 12 Giveaway! (Jan. 5, 2022)

Sandra Cox

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for my Granddaughter was a Hungry Caterpillar Quilt and Matching Book for her Baby.

Martha

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I have made for someone was a doll dress for my Granddaughter.

Deborah

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone is a baby blanket for a new born. It was so appreciated.

Dawn McDermott-Failing

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made was a memory bear I made and donated to the Ronald McDonald House teddy bear auction. The RMHC was a big part of my life growing up as my sister was born with retinoblastoma and lost her eye to it. We spent many days at the RMH and the bear I made was a pirate bear, dressed to look like my sister the Halloween she had her eye removed (hence the pirate with a patch over it’s eye). My sister, aunt and I attended the banquet together that year and shared tears. Also my aunt outbid everyone so the bear is still in our family.

Joan T.

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone is a quilts, for my kids and grand kids.

Jacquie Corrigan

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I have made was a christening gown for my oldest grandchild.

Rosalie

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone is a dress I made for my husband’s niece when she was a baby.

Cynthia

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I have made was making a quilt for my daughter that included the helping hands of my mother who did not sew. She was my biggest fan and loudest critic. To this day I can not have a pucker in a doll’s sleeve, a plaid that does not match nor a seam that does not align that I do not think of her.

anita

January 05, 2022

the most meaningful gift I made for someone was a baby quilt. I gave them to all my employees when they had a baby and they all loved them. I am retired now and I am sure most of those babys have had babies of their own now

Tamara

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gifts I have made are quilts. Only those who are very special to me (each parent, and children) have received them. They are a (artistic) labor of love.

Patti

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gifts I’ve made is American Girl doll clothes for my 5 granddaughters!

Kathy m

January 05, 2022

Barbara W

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I’ve made and given is fleece blankets for my son and his family.

Linda Linzey

January 05, 2022

I think the most meaningful gifts I have ever made are all the cross stitch ornaments that have been made over the years. My mom loves Santa, so I have made her up to 10 of them. And the ones I made for my father like this year that talks off his military service.

Ruth

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I have made for someone is a cloth baby book about Noah’s Ark. Who knew it would be used by so many children?

Vicky Penoyer

January 05, 2022

The most significant gift I ever made was new curtains for my son’s RV. I purchased the fabric & the trim from Home Sew!

HELEN

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I ever made was flower girl dresses for two of my grand daughters.

Ellen

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gifts I have made were personalized TV pillows for my 4 kids. It was a pretty lean year for Christmas gifts and I used what was in my stash to finish the pillows with embroidery, appliquéing and iron on’s, depicting each child’s interests and talents. Those pillows survived long into adulthood for my kids, and I think a couple of them may still be around somewhere.

Jackie

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I’ve ever made anyone would be of the rag doll/ doll clothes variety. Maybe the dolls I made my children from my grandmother’s patterns. Maybe the tiny rag dolls I make as shoebox gifts. These are 4" tall of my own design and pretty well have to be sewn by hand. So there are warm thoughts and prayers sewn in. A child with only a pocket or a drawer to call her own would have room for one. Whoever you are, wherever you are you are loved.

Christie Bradley

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I’ve made was a plaster of Paris plaque in Bible school. It said Prayer Changes Rhings and I painted it to match my Mama’s bedroom. That same night, she got a phone call from the superintendent of schools saying that her prayer had been answered: she had been hired. When I gave it to her that Christmas and explained the coincidence she cherished thst little VBS placque.

Lynda Peterson

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift i made was swimsuits every year for my granddaughters. I have 14 granddaughters so it was no small effort.

Ann

January 05, 2022

“The most meaningful gift I made for someone is . . . a small drawing. I don’t feel that I can elaborate. Upon opening, it hit this person so hard that she shook and I had to leave the room. Years later I was told that she travels with it.

Amy

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone is a doll bunk bed.

Patricia Peterson

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I’ve made for someone was for a Christmas gift exchange for my doll club. The member who received the gift, a dress decorated with gingerbread men, had the perfect composition doll to wear it. She put the doll in a Christmas vignette displayed year round. I duplicated the dress for my own doll, but it didn’t turn out quite as nice.

Terri silva

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I have made is doll clothes for my granddaughters.

Debra

January 05, 2022

I most meaningful gift that I made was a memory quilt of a young 16 year old male who was killed in a car accident. It was given to his mother.

Laura Davis

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone is a letter-box for my mom to hold all of her old letters from my dad when he was overseas in the military. He has since passes away and I wanted her to have a nice keepsake box for all of his ’letters to home.

Laura sustar

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I ever made was a swimsuit for my daughter for her swim team. I now have those skills for doll sewing

Renee B.

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I’ve made is impossible to come up with because I have made many gifts for years for family and friends. I always wanted to give special handmade gifts that I hoped were special to them. Also making charity quilts each year and fulfilling requests for the Giving Tree at church at Christmas. I try to remember to take a picture of gifts I make so I can remember, but I usually forget to do this until after the gift is wrapped up and gone! LOL

Sandra Bazydlo

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I’ve made is the hundreds of purses over the past six years for Sew Powerful and the girls of Lusaka. I don’t think I have ever made anything so important to me and to them.
Thank you again for allowing me to contribute my creations to such a wonderful cause.
God Bless you all!

Kassy

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone was face masks, a knitted hat and some art.

Sharon

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift that I have made for someone is a knitted striped scarf for my husband. It has a good length to it and he called it “Just right.”

Yvonne

January 05, 2022

When my boys were young I made them reading pillows that featured their favorite animals.
These were just pillows that they could prop up with when reading. They are all grown up now and still have them and share with their kids.

Teresa

January 05, 2022

I made warm caps for my Other-Mother who was going thru breast cancer radiation & was bald in winter.

Cathy

January 05, 2022

most meaningful gifts i have made are crochet afghans for friends and family to celebrate special events in their lives, weddings, graduations, births.

Abby Baxter

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone was books I made for my grandparents .
They told them things about themselves. They were really special and they loved them.

Melissa Travis

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I’ve made for someone is a crocheted afghan for my mother.

Denise Amrich

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone is a really nice bone shaped pillow for my husband. He loved a store bought one, and it was getting shabby and worn out, so I made him a clone of it and he loved it. I am about to make more, because that one got shabby, too. I have plans on making three or four of them. Handsewing something for someone that you know they love is an awesome thing to do.

Marilyn

January 05, 2022

I made bookmarks,eyeglass cases and purses for my mom and dad.
Marilyn

Janet

January 05, 2022

“The most meaningful gift I made for someone is a doll set for my niece that matched her outfit.

Crystal

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I’ve made someone is a set of table runner, placemats, and napkins for my mother, shortly before she passed away. I’ve made a number of gifts for people over the years (I’m 73) and they’ve always appreciated those gifts way more than “storebought”. I also liked making my mother new potholders and oven towels every year.

Heather

January 05, 2022

I made a quilt for my Mom out of my Dad’s blue jeans after he passed away in 2020.

Carol Ellis

January 05, 2022

I think the most meaningful gift I have made for anyone are the quilts I made for my daughter-in-law, her mother, and her sister out of their father/husband’s shirts. I was given the shirts over Christmas 2019 and gave them the finished quilts in 2020 on the 20th anniversary of his death. Each quilt was different, though made from the same shirts cut in 8" finished blocks. The mother’s quilt was all set on point. The sister’s was a straight 8×9 with a beautiful 3’ border of 1’ squares set on the diagonal. My daughter-in-law’s quilt was a running bond pattern of the 8" squares with a piano keys border. I had enough squares left over to make a queen size bed quilt with a Contrary Wife border made of 1" squares. This last one was given this summer for their cottage master bedroom bed. My dil’s sister said to me, " Now we have Daddy back home where he belongs."

Linda M.

January 05, 2022

I can’t pin point down to one gift that is memorable. I like to gift to people so I have made a lot of things as gifts over the years! Thanks!

Debra

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone is a quilt from my father’s shirts for my niece.
She had a wonderful relationship with my father and was heartbroken when he passed. When I gave it to her it was clear that she was thrilled and that made me very happy.

Beth P

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I have made someone is a smocked, heirloom dress. Gave it to a friend’s granddaughter.

candy

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone is Christmas outfits and pajamas for my 4 grandchildren every year.

Maxine

January 05, 2022

Oh dear! I am 78 and have been sewing since I was 8 years old on a treadle machine. My mother crocheted, but I sewed on the machine. I was a chubby and has to make all my own dresses and gowns for dances and proms. Made my own wedding hat.Sewed for sisters and nieces all along. Married an engineer and we moved to nine states and homes and i made window coverings for all those homes. continued to sew for myself and friends. Then sewed for my daughter and now for my grand daughters. Taught myself to crochet four years ago and now make Amigurumi and American doll clothes for them. They are all prescious!

Jane

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gifts I have made are dresses for my grandkids.

Lisa

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gifts I made/make for someone are the outfits I make for the 14" dolls for children who have long term stays in hospitals. The name of the organization through which I do this is Stitchin’ for Kids: https://www.stitchinforkids.org/

Shaphan

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I have made is still in the works. I’m making a full sized quilt (my first) for my sister.

Cheryl R.

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone was a wedding dress and all the accessories for a bride like embellishments for her shoes, a full set of hair and regular jewelry to go with her dress, the bouquet and garter, as well as the bootineers for her groom and his son. And as an actual wedding gift I cross stitched them a big, beautiful wedding sampler. She was my best friend at the time and they didn’t have much money, and I wanted her to have a wedding of her choice, that ticked all her boxes….her and her new groom were thrilled.

Elaine

January 05, 2022

“The most meaningful gift I made for someone is a quilt that I made for my mom on her last birthday.

Jeanette

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gifts I made were 2 new complete 18" doll wardrobes for 2 of my granddaughters, including doll quilts and shoes thanks to Pixie Fair patterns and instructions. Thanks, Cinnamon, Designers, and Company!

Maureen

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I have made is a whole trunk full of doll clothes and accessories for each of my 8 granddaughters.

Lynn Zukowski

January 05, 2022

“The most meaningful gift I made for someone is a personalized diaper bag for each of my grand daughters. I have an embroidery machine, so was able to include their names, birthdates etc. I included applique embroidery and created my own bag pattern to accommodate all the babies needs and supplies. and it makes me even more happy when I see the bags being used all the time.”

Mary

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made are things I have made for my grandchildren, such as clothing, pillowcases, aprons and other items. I have made wedding dresses for my daughters, as well as many doll clothes I have made for others through the years. I continue to sew for others, I find fulfillment in creating things that others can enjoy.

Rachel

January 05, 2022

A single sock. I was learning to knit, and it was my first sock. I gave it to my mom, who recently had her leg amputated and now only needed one sock. She loved it!

Lynn

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gifts I have made include dresses for Christmas Shoe Boxes and crochet baby hats for a local charity.

Beth

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone is something blue bracelet for bestie’s wedding.

Kathy

January 05, 2022

This is a hard question! I think the most meaningful gift was the Christmas gifts I would make with the neighborhood children. We would make a sewn gift for each of their teachers (a tote bag or a zippered pouch) and we would make a pillow case to donate to pediatric hospital patients. Each of the children learned to sewn on the those days. I would prep the fabrics and they would choose the colors and use the serger and the conventional machine.

Debra Hamilton

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made was wedding dresses for my granddaughters’ American Girl dolls. I used fabric left over from my wedding dress that I made in 1974.

Barb

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone is the pajamas I made for kids every Christmas and now make for my grandkids because my kids told them I made them and everyone wants grandma’s homemade pj’s.

Cindy

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone is a scrapbook for my mom that showed her best moments as a mother with each of her girls.

Linda

January 05, 2022

So many choices. But made a 3 piece wool suit for my husband. Unfortunately he was only able to wear it once in San Francisco as warmer weather not conducive to wool in Sacramento area.

Deb B

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone is a painting I did for my dad in high school.

Diane Mettam

January 05, 2022

HomeSew is my go-to site for thread, trims, tools, and goodies!

Carolyn

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I’ve made some one is an apron that I made for my mother to harmonize with her dining room wallpaper. Since she died of cancer, I continue to wear it on Thanksgiving.

Lisa

January 05, 2022

A photo quilt for my mother’s 90th birthday. It was fun finding all of the photos and putting it together for her. She proudly displayed it for all to see until she passed. It not is on display in my home and will be passed down to my grandchildren so they can learn of the heritage through the photos.

Mary Becker

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone is a suitcase of doll clothes patterns purchased from your site. I heard there was a little girl who was given an old Americn Doll, but with no clothes. The suitcase was full of fancy dresses, everyday clothes, school clothes. I’m told the girl was delighted. I foudn the girl had no shoes for the doll, so now I have to make those shoes.

Carla

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I gave someone was a pair of dolls that looked like my best friend and I

Laurel

January 05, 2022

A Quilt that I made for my sister in law for Christmas. She was redecorating her bedroom, and I made it peach and green to match. She played “Santa” that year, so was last to open her presents. (Great Gram/Gram/Gramp/3 kids and spouses/6 grands…took us 2 hours that year!). By the time she finally opened it, I was all but throwing up from stress…..She immediately started shaking and sobbing. The BEST received gift I have ever given.

Doreen

January 05, 2022

My grandma was in a nursing home and didn’t need a lot. I used a large Styrofoam ball to make a head with what looked like a face and put dollar bills around curlers and attached them to the head. Money so she could get her hair done. She loved it and didn’t take it apart for a while so she could show it off.

Julia E Erben

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gifts I ever made were Christmas ornaments for my family that used vintage jewelry from our mother.

Liza

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I have made for someone was personalized Christmas ornaments and stockings.

Lynn Acheson

January 05, 2022

“The most meaningful gift I made for someone is a paper pieced nativity scene, for a wedding gift. The couple asked me to make them something. This gift will come out each year at Christmas and will hopefully be a fond memory of me, long after I have gone.

Linda

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone is – Oh dear I have made many meaningful gifts over may 45 years of sewing that it is hard to pick just one. I did have one of my coworkers that her son still had the beat stuffed animal that I made for our peds unit.

Alice K

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gifts that I made were preemie size clothes for the tiny babies in NICU’s. One Mom had triplets at 29 weeks. After the babies passed through a very critical stage she was encouraged to bring clothing and learn how to dress them with all of their hook ups. Who New that doll patterns could be modified for such tiny babies! The Mom left the outfits with the NICU when she brought the “awesome threesome” home.

Marichu

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gifts I’ve made were memory bears.

Kathleen Rowley

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made was a weighted blanket for my Austic Grandson Dylan. It was such a delight to be able to help in some way with his disability. He is such a delightful child ,thankful.

Leslie Loren

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I have ever made was Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls for my mother-in-law. The pair was always on her bed then passed on to me. I passed them on to my granddaughter with an embroidered “history”.

Karen

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made was a doll wardrobe for all my granddaughters.

Mary Brock

January 05, 2022

A king size wedding quilt for my granddaughter. We lost my daughter when she was 10 yrs old so it was one of those times when we were missing my daughter deeply and making the quilt was very calming.

Theresa Norris

January 05, 2022

I made a quilt for a granddaughter.

Teri

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made is a quilt for my son.

Joanne

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I’ve ever made id burial gowns for infants from wedding gowns. My mother in law gave me me her wedding gown over 70 yrs old but I have not completed those yet.

Bonny

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift that I made is an apron for my 2yo granddaughter to match the style of her big sister and mom. I couldn’t find a pattern in her size so I had to modify it to fit.

Jeannie

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone is a personalized quilt. Before my dad passed, I made him a quilt with pictures of all his kids and grandkids. This year I helped my daughter make a quilt for her father-in-law using his dad’s shirts (his dad passed away earlier this year).

Patricia

January 05, 2022

At the moment the gift I made that comes to mind was a Christmas stocking for my sister. After my parents passed away I was cleaning out the house and found an old lace tablecloth. I took it home and had hoped to put it on my own dining room table. But unfortunately there was a large stain in the center. So I bought some red velveteen and made a Christmas stocking using the old lace tablecloth! It came out very pretty with kind of a Victorian look to it!

Pam H

January 05, 2022

“The most meaningful gift I made for someone is several hundred masks for friends, families and employees.

Ann M

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I have ever made was a canopy for my niece’s wedding ceremony.

Susi

January 05, 2022

the most meaningful gift I made was dresses for my goddaughter’s scarecrow doll..

Sandra

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone is I just don’t know. I hope my gifts bring blessings.

Christine

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone is a pillow for my 91 year old mother for Christmas in the pattern she really enjoys.

Diane

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gifts I have given are the hardanger doilies I’ve made for my piano students when they graduate from high school. They involve many hours to make and it is a gift from my heart.

Lorraine MacLeod

January 05, 2022

I have made so many meaningful gifts, but I’m sure nothing would compare to the joy my mother felt each time she wore one of the many dresses that I made for her! She found it difficult to buy clothes that fit, and so I kept her well dressed for may years until she passed away.

Lorraine MacLeod

January 05, 2022

I have made so many meaningful gifts, but I’m sure nothing would compare to the joy my mother felt each time she wore one of the many dresses that I made for her! She found it difficult to buy clothes that fit, and so I kept her well dressed for may years until she passed away.

Helen

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I have given was two doll outfits that I made for the Church’s Fall Festival this year. It was very satisfiying doing this and will do it again and again!

Pam

January 05, 2022

I forgot one of the most memorable! I made my mother’s wedding gown and veil when she remarried late in life. It was so very special to do this for her.

Monique

January 05, 2022

The most meaningful gift I made for someone is the Barbie-sized leather jacket and handbag for my godmother. She had visited me earlier in the year, and I took her to a high-end department store. She wanted the $2000 leather jacket (of course, much too expensive for either one of us) and we laughed ourselves silly over an $800 tote bag. She reminded me several times how she expected me to give her the leather coat for Christmas. So I sewed her a doll-sized jacket and tote and pinned them to tissue paper, placed store price tags with the prices we had seen, and placed them in the department store’s box large enough to hold the jacket. She absolutely loved it! I think it was her favorite present from me.