22 Jul 10+ Exciting Craft Gifts Stitchcraft Wants for the Holidays
As crafters, the Stitchcraft Marketing team is always thinking about and looking at fun new crafting products. We make our wishlists early and update them often in preparation for the holiday season. Our team knits, quilts, sews, sculpts, paints, and crochets, so we’re always on the lookout for incredible kits, notions, and new tools. Let’s dig into our choices for this year!
Classes
TomKat Stitchery – TomKat Stitchery is leading the handmade clothing revolution and we are here for it. We love TomKat Stitchery’s classes because they take sewists from the very beginning of their handmade clothing journey through some of the tougher wardrobe pieces. Once purchased, classes are yours to own forever, so you can continue to return to lessons when you need a refresher.
Patty Lyons – Patty Lyons is well known for her expert knitting classes—and lucky for knitters, her online on-demand class list is deep. Patty offers classes tied to her own sweater designs, so knitters can knit along and modify their sweater as needed. But she also offers techniques courses, like for customizing any sweater pattern, knitting brioche or cables, and blocking and finishing techniques.
Crafty Apparel + Home Goods
Camp Stitchwood Hexagon Bee T-Shirt – It’s a bee, but it’s also an incognito skein of yarn from Camp Stitchwood, which specializes in creating unique gear for fiber fans and crafters.
Small World Goods Denim Ohio Star Claw Clip – This adorable claw clip (shown above) showcases your love for the classic Ohio Star quilt pattern in an understated hair accessory. It’s perpetually sold out, so you know quilters love it.
Quilt Mugs – Mugs with quilt pattern designs are having a moment, and we love them every time we see them. Both Studio Katagami and Punctuation Ceramics offer gorgeous versions of the quilt mug—and again, they are always sold out, so you know they’re popular!
Silent Wave Indigo Sashiko-embellished Clothing – Silent Wave Indigo sells the most gorgeous sashiko-embellished denim clothing. We’re really eyeing the bottoms, specifically this skirt and these shorts. We also love that they offer online workshops, tools, and other supplies so you can recreate the looks on your own.
Thread and Sprout Clothing – We’ve featured Thread and Sprout in our yearly trend reviews because we’re so in love with their mindfully-made, patchwork-style, handmade clothing. They also sell patterns for sewists to create their own patchwork designs.
Books
DIY Embroidered Shoes and 3D Botanical Embroidery + Stumpwork – It’s difficult to choose between these two excellent MCreativeJ embroidery books. Embroidering our shoes feels like a great way to visibly mend an old pair of kicks or beautify a new pair of shoes. But, venturing into learning the stumpwork embroidery technique, which lends itself to creating embroidered items like pins, earrings, necklaces and more standalone pieces feels fresh and fun.
A Dictionary of Color Combinations – We’re always thinking about color at Stitchcraft, so having a handy pocket dictionary of color combinations sounds like a dream. This Japanese guide is derived from a 6-volume book published in the 1930s and has been used by designers in Japan for decades. It’s the perfect gift for all crafty people who love daydreaming about color combinations.
52 Weeks of Scrap Yarn – Laine Publishing’s 52 weeks series of pattern books are always great gifts for knitters. Each volume features 52 patterns from 50+ designers, published in both beautiful hardcover editions and digital downloads. In previous years, they’ve published volumes for socks, shawls, accessories, easy knits, and chunky knits. Now, they’re back with 52 Weeks of Scrap Yarn, perfect for knitters seeking patterns that use up yarn scraps and mini skeins.
The Gnomes of Grimblewoods – Sarah Schira has supplied a niche corner of the knitting community with an abundance of knit gnome patterns; at the time of this writing, there are approximately 40 gnome patterns in her oeuvre. Her book, The Gnomes of Grimblewood, offers a curated collection of 8 gnomes, each with distinguishing features, many of which can be mixed and matched and knit in various yarn weights. If you’ve considered joining the whimsical and always fun world of gnome knitting, this book provides the perfect entry point.
Kits
Stitched Stories Embroidery Kits – Beginner to advanced embroiderers alike will love the ease of Stitched Stories’ embroidery kits. Each design comes with a printed canvas (no need to transfer the design yourself), plus two needles, a bamboo hoop, a storage tin, and all the instructions and embroidery floss you’ll need to complete the design.
Socorro Society Mini Visible Mending Kit – Socorro Society has tons of great crafting supplies, patterns, and educational workshops to explore. We love their mini visible mending kit because it’s perfect for travel and has everything you need to practice your sashiko, boro, and other visible mending skills on the go.
PortGardnerCrafts Weaving Starter Kit – This kit is a fantastic option for those who want to start weaving but don’t know where to begin. The kit includes everything needed to make a small woven wall hanging, including a small wooden loom, weaving comb, tapestry needle, wooden dowel, roving, and warp string.
PunchyStuff Punch Needle Kits – Looking to get into punch needling? PunchyStuff has full punch needle kits for pillows, coasters, wall art, and more. Most kits are aimed at the beginner and include easy-to-follow instructions and stencils or templates to trace designs for multiple projects.
Tools and Supplies
Miniature Rhino Sashiko Grid Stencil – A simple grid forms the foundation of most sashiko patterns, and this grid stencil makes charting them a breeze. Miniature Rhino also sells great sashiko kits and mending supplies if you’re looking to start your visible mending journey.
Knitbrooks Crochet Hooks – Knitbrooks’ crochet hooks (above) might be the most beautiful crochet hooks we’ve ever seen. Handmade by a husband-and-wife team, Knitbrooks hooks feature dazzling designs using two to three different kinds of wood. This is like the Mont Blanc of crochet hooks!
Speedweve Mending Looms – Speedweve’s looms make mending so easy, and most of their looms come with instructions to create intricate patterns using multiple colors of thread. These looms are great for visible mending projects and repairing holes in denim, knitwear, socks, and more.
Color Fidget Enamel Pin / Needle Minder / Keychain – Symtmetry’s Color Fidget devices could technically fall under the “Fun Stuff” category, but it’s also a tool so we’re leaving it here. Spin it to find great color pairings *and* satisfy your need to fidget with something. We recommend the needle minder version for sewists, quilters, and embroiderers since it holds onto your needles!
Fun Stuff
Camp Stitchwood Badge Stickers – Camp Stitchwood’s Badge Stickers are a cute and affordable way to flaunt your love of crafting. These come in a variety of fun and funny designs that incite that collect-them-all attitude that harkens back to the days when you were a girl or boy scout trying to earn all the skills badges.
Colonial Patterns Iron-on Transfers – We love the iron-on transfer trend because it makes it so easy to stitch precise embroidery designs. Colonial Patterns has an expansive collection of iron-on transfers ranging from modern sashiko designs to simple embroidery and more advanced crewel embroidery motifs.
TanjasHandEmbroidery Blackwork Embroidery – This Etsy seller offers a large selection of beautiful cross-stitch-meets-Blackwork embroidery kits and designs, many of which are great for beginners to the craft. She also sells beautiful needle painting embroidery kits featuring flowers and animals, if color is more your style.
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