80 Handmade Gifts is your new, go-to guide for making handmade gifts anyone would love. A perfect reference to keep on hand for holidays, birthdays, and last-minute gifting opportunities year-round, including hostess, get well soon, thank you, or no-reason-at-all gifts.This collection includes many kid-friendly projects. Bond with your loved ones and teach the next generation to create, share, and inspire others.This collection of projects was curated with usefulness in mind: a gift that can be used regularly is the gift that keeps on giving. Choose a quick and easy project from a wide variety of disciplines including: knitting, crochet, sewing, paper crafts, cooking and more. You are sure to find the perfect gift!Each project includes step-by-step instructions, clear photographs plus variations, to help you make each gift a one-of-a-kind. As far back as I can remember, long before I was even a crafting professional, I have been creating one-of-a-kind gifts by hand. In addition to making sure that the gift would be useful, I was customizing ideas for a particular person to make sure that the gift had special or hidden meanings in the type of craft, color or content of materials. Creating a gift by hand displays your most heartfelt feelings and is almost magical. I have had a lifetime of opportunities to share my enthusiasm for creating through gifting, teaching, and empowering others to create, teach, gift and sell their own handmade creations. The focus of this collection is simple and quick handmade crafts. Many of the projects are kid-friendly for teaching our love of creating to family and empowering the next generation of crafters. There is a focus on quick gifts in relation to labor cost for those interested in selling their handmade items. This collection of projects was curated with usefulness in mind: a gift that can be used regularly is a gift that keeps on giving. While the most common purpose of handmade gifts is holidays, I think having a go-to reference of quick and easy crafts makes handmade gifting possible for so many other opportunities: appreciation of an act of kindness; pick-me-up for a friend; last minute invite to a party; or no reason at all. Learning is such a personal experience and each of us learns in a unique way. Please enjoy the written instructions, charts, schematics and the supplemental video tutorials on my website to enhance your experience. This entire book is printed in larger font to make reading it as simple and easy as possible. I am so excited to share 80 Handmade Gifts with you. I hope you enjoy creating and sharing this collection as much as I do! xoxo, Kristin Kristin Omdahl is the author of dozens of best-selling craft books; curator of gorgeous, thoughtful yarns and products; and producer of award-winning educational and inspirational videos. Join Kristin LIVE on the beach for her daily podcast! Kristin lives in Bonita Springs, Florida.