I love making a gift basket for the silent auction at the Arts and Crafts Mission Market at my church every November, which this year will benefit the Downtown Daycare Center here in Wichita, KS. This time I decided on a music theme.
- First, I made an embroidered pillow and a music-note-fabric half apron with fabric flower a-la-mode. (Click here for the apron tutorial from Jona of Stop Staring & Start Sewing).
- Next, I added a framed music saying (which you can get here for FREE from the lovelyn Darilyn of TheHighNotedotNet) and a package of vintage music Christmas tree confetti from Darilyn’s Etsy shop.
- I finished if off with a blank journal and coffee cup cozy for idea-gathering and a small vintage hymnal.
Click here for gift baskets from the past few years. It’s my secret ambition to go into the gift basket business someday! (Dave, you didn’t see that, right???) ♥
PILLOWS A-LA-MODE 
That is so creative! What a great basket to donate.
Thank you, Virginia! 🙂
Love the pillow! And the basket theme! And the community service!
Thank you, Laura! 🙂
I love the music pillow! Adorable. And I would fully support a gift basket business!! 😉
Thank you, Danielle . . . you’re such a sweetie! 🙂
That’s fantastic! I love making gift baskets myself, coming up with creative themes like this. Great job!
Thank you, Lindy! And I agree . . . coming up with the theme and ideas is one of the best parts! 🙂
I love the embroidered music notes!! What embroidery machine do you recommend?
Thank you, Anna! I’ve never used machine embroidery . . . but I’d like to try it sometime! I do love to hand embroider. My grandmother taught me when I was around 10 years old . . . and it’s SO relaxing! 🙂
Oh I love it all! And I wish I could bid on it at the auction — it would be a perfect gift for my son’s piano teacher!
That is so sweet of you! And I used to be a piano teacher, so I applaud your idea of a gift! 🙂 Maybe you can put something like this together, too!
So cute Katherine!
Thank you so much, Tamika! 🙂
What a great basket to donate, full of wonderful items 🙂
Thank you, Izabel! 🙂
Love gift baskets! It’s so fun having a theme–maybe it’s the teacher in us. 🙂
I think you’re exactly right, Anny! 🙂
I love a themed gift basket! And coming from a music-lovin’ family, this post is giving me all sorts of gift ideas for Christmas this year…thanks for the inspiration!
Thank you, Lauren! If I remember right, your dad plays piano??? I used to teach piano lessons, and it seems like we had a conversation about that one time. 🙂
All your projects are so elegant and beautiful!! Awesome! Hugz Lisa and Bear
Lisa, that is just the sweetest thing to say! Thank you! Hugs back, Katherine
That is really pretty. I am working on several gift baskets for my coworkers
Thank you! And I can’t wait to see your gift baskets! 🙂
I’m excited. Ive got so many ideas, just have to decide on a few.
You have such great ideas and are so creative!
What a lovely thing to say, Christina . . . thank you! 🙂
loved it too…music works with lots of things…and especially this lovely basket!
Thank you, Marilyn! And I agree . . . music is important to EVERYONE! 🙂
Gift baskets make the best presents. You would be good at that and they are becoming more and popular even here. I love the musical pillow!
Thank you for the encouragement, Sharon! And would you believe that I embroidered that pillow front over TWO years ago and just now got around to making it into a pillow? But the timing was perfect for this project! 🙂
this is such a great idea.. very creative.. love the musical pillow.. 😀
Thank you so much! The pillow was fun and a perfect fit for this basket I had on hand. 🙂
Looks really lovely, anyone would be happy to receive this basket of goodies.
Thank you, Sharron! I just love baskets, so filling them with treasures is frosting on the cake! 🙂
I love the pillow. I play the piano and it would brighten my day.
Thank you, Anna! I used to teach piano lessons, so anything with a music theme makes me smile, too! 🙂
this is so awesome! thanks for including The Highnote!
You’re very welcome, Darilyn! And thank YOU for the inspiring items to add to my gift basket! P.S. I gave some packages of your vintage tree confetti to my cousins who came for a visit this past weekend, too, and they loved them! They’re all very crafty, so it will be fun to see how they use them! 🙂
LOVELY ideas, beautifully executed!
xx del
Thank you . . . what a kind thing to say! 🙂
You would be the perfect person to create gift baskets. You are very talented, and have great taste, which in our experience, is a fairly unusual combo!
That is such a lovely thing to say! Thank you! My husband just wishes I’d figure out what I want to do when I grow up! 🙂
lovely basket to donate Katherine, love the music theme; very pretty
oh! this basket would make a wonderful Christmas gift too 🙂
Thank you, Ingrid! The arts/crafts market is right before Thanksgiving, so I think a lot of people do their Christmas shopping there! 🙂
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