American Christmas Crafts and Foods

This is a very comprehensive book. It provides the ability to express your creativity in a variety of ways (with instructions, patterns and pictures). The sections are: Christmas - A Celebration of American Crafts, which includes doll and toy making with all the data needed; Beloved Christmas Traditions - more crafts and home decorations; Christmas Magic From Every day things which has items to make your house a themed display, along with festive holiday clothing which is simple to make; Christmas Joys for Children - stockings and baby toys too (which has a specific section which focuses on some ideas for a baby's First Christmas); Old-Country Customs which has food dishes and desserts. Throughout the book there are different themed Christmas decorations - some quite easy to make. The book is comprehensive in its offering of various options for different skill types there are plenty of easy handicrafts but also those geared to Knitting, Crocheting, Embroidery, and Needlepoints. The time to create some of these might be from 20 minutes to several hours with the exception of the quilt (which if you have a sewing machine wouldn't take more than 5-7 hours). What nice heirlooms to pass down to the next generation.