Love to Craft – Gift Ideas For Mom

This week is all about craft inspiration for gifts to give to your Mom.

Receiving something handmade on Mother’s Day is always a delight.

My kids have often secreted themselves away before Mother’s Day, to make a crafty project for me.

Their handmade cards and little sewing or knitted projects bring a smile to my face.

In this week’s craft inspiration I’ve found some fab projects that would make beautiful gifts for Mom.

Some of the crafty ideas tie in with this year’s Earth Day Theme of Reduce Plastic Pollution.

Plus some other super handmade gifts to try.

Some of the gift ideas shared can be made in a few hours and are so easy to do!

Hope you find some inspiration to go handmade for Mom this year.

Enjoy!

Knit and Crochet Patterns To Help Our Earth

I found some lovely craft ideas to tie in with this year’s Earth Day.

Ally at Lionbrand Studios has shared 12 patterns that help to Reduce Plastic Pollution.

Any of these patterns would make gorgeous knitted and crocheted gifts for Mom.

DIY Linen Bread Bag

Chris at Attainable Sustainable has an easy to follow sewing tutorial for making a Linen Bread bag.

Following on from this year’s Earth Day Theme, Linen Bread Bags are a fab way to store bread, and they are reusable 🙂

Moms would love to receive this as a gift.

Reusable Fabric Bowl Covers

You can see a pattern developing in the gift ideas for Mom can’t you 🙂

Make Mom some reusable Fabric Bowl covers and she will love the extra space in her kitchen drawer, that’s been taken up by plastic wrap.

Make a Sharpie Flower Pot

Upcycle an old flower pot in a few simple steps and with just some paint, a paintbrush and a Sharpie Marker!

Kellie at Nest Of Posies has a super quick tutorial to follow.

Finger Knit Rope Trivet

These look fabulously stylish 🙂

An excellent finger knitting project to give as a handmade gift to Mom.

Anne Weil has a tutorial to step you through how to make one.

Flashdance Chair Socks/Legwarmers

Socks/legwarmers for the bottom of chair legs instead of those felt ones that invariably fall off!

And the idea inspired by one of my of my favorite movies, Flashdance.

Back in the 80s legwarmers were so cool 🙂

The Mom at Simply Notable shares her try at Adventure Gurl’s knitting pattern for protecting the floors from the bottom of your chairs.

Mother’s Day Quilled Paper Art

A stunning design that would make a beautiful card or wall art for Mom.

Emily Dawe takes you on a paper quilling journey in her fantastic tutorial on The Paperchase Journal.

Another great gift idea for Mom would be Emily’s Marbled Paper.

Check out that tutorial here.

DIY Pom Pom Baskets

Use these fun pom poms by Jillian at Hello Splendid and add them to a basket.

You could use leftover embroidery thread or even yarn for this crafty project.

Your Mom would love to receive this as a gift to store whatever she liked 🙂

All Moms Need One Of These

Heating pads are so soothing and also work for warming up your bed on those colder nights.

Use materials that your Mom would love.

Follow Sara from Alice and Lois’ sewing tutorial to make one.

Watermelon Dishcloth Crochet Pattern

Using this dish cloth would make washing dishes just that little bit more fun.

Cinta at My Poppet shares her free crochet pattern for this watermelon dishcloth.

A relatively quick project to make for Mother’s Day.

Editor’s note: Our readers have said, in their free time, they love going back over previous editions of our roundups.
– So we’ve kept the crafty goodness below from this time last year.

Knit Up A Cozy Blanket for Mom

In amongst these lovely handmade Mother’s Day Gift ideas from Crafsty, I found this gorgeous pattern.

Cozy and snug merino yarn is used to make a treasured blanket.

Quick and Straightforward Crochet Bath Scrubbie

With great step by step instructions and helpful pictures, these crochet bath scrubbies would make a wonderful Mother’s Day Gift.

Make and Take have some other easy to follow crochet patterns too.

Latitude Lattice Quilt

Faith at Fresh Lemons Modern Quilts has created this beautiful quilt using From the Blue Chair’s Tutorial.

It’s a lovely design and looks easy to do 🙂

Learn the Basics and Beyond of Cross Stitch

Has Mom always wanted to learn Cross Stitch.

Be guided by an expert on the basics of Cross Stitch by Craftsy Instructor Jeanette Douglas.

A mighty fine cross stitcher, Jeanette steps you through the basics in the online course.

Self-paced and easy to follow.

Carrot Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

This would make a decadent treat for Mom on Mother’s Day.

All the deliciousness expected from Carrot Cake but in a cookie!!

Check out Two Sisters Crafting’s recipe

Quick and Easy Succulent Gift

Looking to create a simple and effective gift for Mom?

This lovely succulents idea by Ribbons and Glue is perfect.

Check out the tutorial 🙂

Hope you found our Love to Craft – Gift Ideas for Mom post helpful and inspiring  ?

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Yours in Craftiness

Jodie ?