With less than two months left until Christmas, I’ve started thinking about some quick and easy gifts I can make.

These fabulous Scrappy Bookmarks definitely fit that bill. Terrie has put together a great tutorial with lots of photos.

If you need a refresher course, be sure to check out Nadine’s video tutorial on edge stitching Inchies. It’ll come in handy for doing the edges of the bookmarks too.

In honour of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Connecting Threads has available a free tutorial to make paper-pieced Pink Ribbon Pins.

Help raise awareness by sewing this simple quilted ribbon for your family, co-workers, and friends. Two sizes are available: large pin is 3″ x 4″ and the small pin 2 1/4″ x 3″.

Kaaren from the The Painted Quilt teaches us how to make these gorgeous fabric pumpkins in her Pumpkin Tutorial – Crazy Quilt Style!.

You’ll start with 6.5″ blocks, stack them, whack them, stitch them, then trim blocks to 4.5″. You’ll stitch the 4.5″ blocks together, make a tube, gather and stuff.

A great tutorial with lots of detailed photos.

Here’s a very quick and easy tutorial to make a spooky trick or treat bag for your little ones to use this Halloween. You’ll need 18 charms, 1/2 yard of fabric for the lining and 2 1/2 yards of black nylon webbing for the handles (or make your own).

I wish I had time to make new trick or treat bags for my nieces this year, but unfortunately I don’t. I’ll see about picking up some Halloween fabric on sale after though to make them for next year. Hopefully we can convince Lucy into letting Baby Alice use her little bag. It will also be Alice’s first birthday, born last Halloween.

I’m actually going to be spending Halloween with the girls… my first Halloween with little ones since my sister was a kid. Very excited. Lucy is going to be a Princess in her “pretty blue cinderella dress”. Do you have little ones? What are they dressing up as?

Phyllis Dobbs has designed this super cute tutorial just in time for Halloween. It uses felt and can be made into a trick or treat bag or a wall hanging.

Get the full-sized pattern and instructions here: Halloween pumpkin and cat felt treat bag or wall hanging

It was my mom’s birthday earlier this week. I sent her this beaded Friendship Bag:

I also made her a tote bag from a Moda Bake Shop Tutorial:

Close up of the stitching:

Free-motion stitching on the back: