Handmade Ornament

DIY home projects, decorating ideas and handmade touches for every room.

Tie a four-inch spiral of cotton half hitches around each intact handle of a summer market tote.

Weave a two-color paper panel and mount it on a taped cardstock sleeve sized for 4-by-6-inch postcards.

Print a pea-pod pattern with two homemade foam stamps, then staple the printed cardstock around a garden notebook.

Sew a lined cotton envelope with a fold-over flap and wraparound twill tie for a picnic set of three utensils.

Use white crayon and pink and green watercolor to make six tent-fold place cards with watermelon wedges.

Paint six wooden pot markers and tie on rounded, replaceable plastic tags for spring plant names.

Braid cotton T-shirt strips and hand-stitch them into a flat spiral mat for cool picnic serving pieces.

Shape three rings of pink crepe-paper petals around a fringed center and a rolled green paper stem.

Sew a single cotton strip into a small tote organizer with a tuck-in flap and no zipper or button.

Roll and cut three round air-dry clay hangings, each imprinted with a different scrap of textured fabric.