Mandy's Magical Christmas: 10 Timeless Sewing Patterns for a Handmade Yule

By Mandy Shaw

Transform your home and create gorgeous gifts with the most gloriously festive decorations, wreaths, tags, and more from the redwork stitching expert.

Nobody does a handmade Christmas like Mandy Shaw! Learn how to decorate your home with unique and personal touches with this gorgeous collection of sewing patterns from the Queen of Christmas Craft. Featuring Mandy’s signature redwork designs and cute folk-inspired characters, this charming book brings Mandy’s best-loved Christmas projects together into one volume. With inspiring lifestyle photography, step-by-step instructions and full-size templates, you’ll learn to sew wreaths, garlands, pennants, hanging decorations and more, and bring some of Mandy’s sparkle to your own magical Christmas.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Jul 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781446379714

Mandy Shaw

Mandy Shaw runs Dandelion Designs, a craft design and kit company. Her work has featured on BBC2’s Leisure Hour and she has written for Popular Patchwork and Fabrications magazines. Shaw also appeared on Kirstie Allsopp’s Homemade Home (Channel 4). She is also the author of Quilt Yourself Gorgeous. She lives in East Sussex.

Book preview

Mandy's

Magical

Christmas

10 timeless sewing patterns for a handmade yule

Mandy Shaw

www.davidandcharles.com

Contents

Gingerbread House

Gingerbread Men

Christmas Wreath

Special Garland

Present Tags

Embroidered Lampshade

Robin Appliqué Lampshade

Mini Tree Bunting

Christmas Pennant

Robin Decorations

Working the Stitches

General Techniques

Templates

About the Author

Thanks

Suppliers

a touch of magic!

I absolutely love the build-up to Christmas, where I get to sew beautiful decorations to transform my home and gorgeous gifts for the people I love. This collection of gloriously Christmassy projects brings together the festive makes from my three books, Stitch with Love, Stitch at Home and Celebrate with a Stitch into a handy edition that you can whip out when you just feel the need for some festive sewing fun!

There are ten projects to choose from, including decorations, wreaths, bunting, tags and more and plenty of redwork stitching – my all-time favourite technique – which just works so perfectly for Christmas projects.

I’ve included a comprehensive guide to all the hand embroidery stitches you’ll need, as well as all the templates at full-size, so there’s nothing stopping you just tracing from the page and getting started today!

I hope you enjoy this collection and cherish the process of making your own magical Christmas.

Mandy xxx

Projects

Gingerbread House

The best bit about making this little gingerbread house is the decorating. You could go really mad with all the lovely festive buttons and ribbons you can buy. However, I have chosen a more subtle snow-and-ice inspired cream ric-rac braid and pearl button heart motif.

You will need

46cm × 30.5cm (18in × 12in) thick interfacing

46cm × 30.5cm (18in × 12in) thin cotton wadding

50cm (20in) of 106cm (42in) wide brown cotton fabric

25.5cm (10in) square fusible webbing

Red small dot, pink stripe and cream fabric offcuts

132cm (52in) cream narrow ric-rac

40.5cm (16in) cream wide ric-rac

18cm × 20cm (7in × 8in) cream felt

One skein cream embroidery thread

Fabric adhesive or tacking thread

Eight 1.3cm (¹⁄2in) pearl buttons

35 6mm (¹⁄4in) pearl buttons

Wooden kebab stick

Drinking straw

Two wooden beads*

Note: * choose beads to fit the end of the kebab stick.

Finished size: 15.5cm × 13cm × 15.5cm (6in × 5in × 6in) excluding chimney

Fast2Fuse – a thick, iron-on interfacing that is very easy to sew through – will save you time (see Suppliers).

Cut and prepare the house parts

1. From the interfacing and cotton wadding, cut the following: one base 15.5cm × 13cm (6in × 5in); two sides 15.5cm × 7.5cm (6in × 3in); and two roofs 10cm × 18cm (4in × 7in). Using the gable end template (see Templates), also cut two

Reviews for Mandy's Magical Christmas

[AC Morgavi · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A sweet little book for beginners and teens learning to sew.