Welcome to CRAFT’s season of gift guides! We’ll be bringing you a new guide every weekday to make your holiday gift search a little easier. Mixed in with topical guides this season you’ll find gifts to make at all different levels. First up: hardcore handmade! Get started early on these gifts that take forever to make but pack a seriously impressive punch. That special someone will flip out over these projects that celebrate the labor of love. Have you slaved away on a craft project as a gift for someone special? Post it up in the comments. And if you can’t wait to browse our team’s collective gift brain, check out our gift guides in 2010 and 2009.
Cassie in Georgia knitted an entire level of Super Mario as a scarf for her beau!
Build this electric guitar from the easy-to-follow instructions for a gift that’ll be cherished because you made it yourself.
Andrew Salomone wants nothing more than to see Mr. Bill Cosby in this sweater made just for him on an electronic knitting machine.
Carrie Fritsche makes it easy to recreate her 9-foot TARDIS blanket with a free pattern on Ravelry. Her sister is the lucky recipient of this cozy Dr. Who tribute.
Got a space geek to please this xmas? Take a queue from Rachel Hobson and create a portrait of your babe’s favorite interplanetary body, in this case the lusciously-textured surface of Earth’s moon.
Beer doesn’t take more than a few days’ labor, but there’s a lot of waiting. Get started now if you want to give the gift of homebrew! Maker Shed carries kits for an IPA or Tripel, and we covered brewing start to finish on Make: Live.
Delicately pieced by a friend, this Flickr user received an exquisite handmade Artoo-Detoo quilt as a gift.
Is paper more your speed? Spend hours with a ruler and blade making a popup paper sculpture like Tauba Auerbach.
Oh, so a popup’s too basic? Try making your own version of Ji Qi’s computational popup book with conductive traces activating lights and sounds as you activate the book’s tabs and flaps.
In the Maker Shed:
Want more? Stop by the Make Shed. We’ve got all sorts of great holiday gift ideas: Arduino & Arduino accessories, electronic kits, science kits, smart stuff for kids, back issues of MAKE & CRAFT, box sets, books, robots, kits from Japan and more.
Holiday Shipping Deadlines in December:
December 14 Last Day to place orders shipped via USPS
December 19th Last Day to place orders shipped via 3-Day freight
December 20th Last Day to place orders shipped via 2-Day freight
December 22nd Last Day to place orders shipped via priority overnight Saturday delivery
Note: We guarantee delivery by Christmas when ordering by the above deadlines, except for USPS, where we simply cannot guarantee. However, we feel reasonably certain based on experience that orders placed on that day will be delivered by Christmas via USPS.
And of course, Gift Certificates and MAKE subscriptions are always available – even on Christmas Day!
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