10 Back to School DIYs – Craft Gossip

Back to school time has arrived and it’s time to get crafting! What better time than now to work on some organizational projects, like a homework station or school countdown calendar? Give your first day of school photos a little style with colorful printed grade signs and a cheerful school bus frame. We’ve also found some adorable personalized school supplies, like backpacks and notebooks, that your kids will love to carry to class. There’s also a complete set of DIY locker accessories with every necessity covered! And once you’re done crafting, you can even hide the new supplies in the Back to School sensory bin for little kids to discover.

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Craft Stick School Bus – Reading Confetti

Locker accessories – Sassy Style Redesign

School Countdown - Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

School Countdown by Becoming Martha – Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

DIY Portable homework station – Uncommon Designs

Back to School Custom Cinch Sacks – That’s What Che Said

First Day of School Signs Free Printables Pre-K – 12th – Nest of Posies

Felt Initial Notebook – Everything Etsy

{Dig Into Treasure Hunting} Back to School Learning Bins – JDaniel4’s Mom

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The other day I shared some cross stitch patterns with ornaments on them, so this time around I wanted to share cross stitch patterns that you can use as ornaments. It would be fun to do a whole tree in your craft room with cross stitch ornaments, or just add a few to your tree or give them as gifts.

These little quilt inspired cross stitch patterns from Flamingo Toes look like ornaments and fit in 3-inch hoops, which are perfect for hanging on the tree or using to decorate a gift. I love the pastel colors on these but you can use more traditional Christmas colors if you like.

This cute Christmas tree from Lagodargetoshop uses a single color and fits in a 4-inch hoop, but you could make it smaller if you wanted by trimming the last ornaments and gifts from the sides, or just stitch the tree without any other embellishments. Either way it’s a cute addition to your holiday tree.

Stitched Modern has a super cute collection of retro Christmas ornament cross stitch patterns from designer Gera. This is a printed pattern that will be shipped to you. Each pattern is about 40 by 56 stitches, or 2.9 by 4 inches/7.4 by 10 cm on 14 count fabric. To work the whole set you’ll need 20 colors of floss.

These snowflake ornaments from Our Little Handmade Home are each about 2.5 inches/6.4 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric, and they use a single color of floss. They are pretty in red but you could also do white on a blue or black background, or whatever suits your other Christmas tree decorations!

From the description it sounds like this set of vintage style cross stitch characters is presented as one large chart, but the photo from Sampler Antique Stitch shows each of them stitched up as their own little ornament, so it gets included here. You’ll find Santa and snowmen in different poses in this cute collection.

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