Secret Santa Gift
 

Our Share-a-Craft group has a Secret Santa each year, value between Aus.$10 and $15. I am finding it increasingly difficult to find something that is value for money. At the Adelaide Quilting and Craft Fair, I saw 120" tape measures, bought two, one for me and one for the Secret Santa. Of course you can't just give a tape measure as the gift, so I embroidered a cover for it, but this still didn't seem to satisfy me, so I made a Cross Stitch Pin Cushion to go with it. I might just have to make another Cross Stitch Pin Cushion for myself.

Fabulous SS gift and thank you for posting. I have a pattern for covering tape measures I have never used.

Both really pretty!

Beautiful SS gifts ~ you do beautiful embroidery and your SS should have been very pleased with the gift!

Very nice gifts.

Lovely, what a special gift. The stitching is so beautiful.

Very very nice.

Awesome!!!!!

Very special !!

Very pretty and useful.

Beautiful work.

Very pretty pair! Someone is very lucky!

That's a lovely gift!

Those are so precious!! LOVE them!

I love that covered tape measure and the pincushion. are you in the pincushion swap. January just opened, come join us, it's a lot of fun.

Really nice gifts! Great job!

The pin cushion is cute, I love the tape measure cover, beautiful!

and the picture behind the pincushion and tape measure. Is it a craft? If so where did you get it. It is beautiful!

I think these are so wonderful! They are so delicate, I would just display them, they are so delicate and beautiful!!!

Bothe are so very pretty! I bet your SS recipient will be very happy!

beautiful pieces.

Love them! So dainty. Where did you get the pattern for the tape measure cover?

That's a great Secret Santa gift for a quilter.

I would be thrilled to receive these gifts at my group's SS pick. They are both gorgeous!!

Thank you every one for your comments, they are greatly appreciated.

Jean-45, the item behind the pin cushion and tape measure is the gift bag that was used, but yes it would look very nice as a quilt or bag or table topper, oh no, another thing to add to the list.

Lynnie, Thank you for the suggestion, postage is an issue from Australia, and Australia Post has just announced massive losses, they are talking a 10cent increase on standard letter rate within Australia (it has never gone up this much in one hit), so it stands to reason that other items will be increased as well. I have a few great patterns for pin cushions but they are not a priority on my list at the moment.

Pete, The actual tape measure is 120"long so a bit bigger than the standard size, so just drew around the tape measure and added just a bit for the hand stitching, and the embroidery I did just from a picture in a magazine ad.

Would you be my SS??? Such beautiful work!

very nicely done!!!!

Very nicely done.

I want to be your secret pal. These are lovely!

Very nice gifts.

Love both. That rose is so sweet. Thank you for sharing those with us!

Very pretty gifts.

so pretty and elegant. Lucky lady :)

Great creative gift!

Lovely and I know just how much time it took to crossstitch, embroidery and make both of them plus the time spent in worrying if it would be enough. To me it was worth so much more than $15.00. I know the recipient had to have been thrilled.