Top 20 DIY Holiday Gift Tutorials: 2025 Edition
Are you looking for a thoughtful and handmade gift for this holiday season? Today, we bring you our top 20 DIY holiday gift tutorials of the year! This list is packed with sewn projects that can all be finished by Christmas.
The first 10 tutorials are from The Cutting Table, our digital mini magazine subscription. The second 10 tutorials are our most popular, quick sewing projects from the blog. Many of these projects went viral in 2025 — they're so popular that anyone on your list will be delighted.
And if you are looking for all of our free holiday tutorials, you can find them all in the Holiday section of the Blog.
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The Best Holiday Gift Tutorials from The Cutting Table
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- 3 New sewing or crafting tutorials
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- Exclusive discounts from sewing and crafting shops we love
- 1 Newsletter with links to everything new that month
Keep reading to see our most popular tutorials of 2025 and start making your holiday gifts today!
Trending patterns!
Our most popular tutorial of the year! This viral project took Instagram by storm, and we loved seeing so many creative quilters put their spin on this fast and easy project.
These sweet little coin purses are for more than just coins. Make them as teacher gifts, guild swaps, hosting gifts, or for family and friends. They're also wonderful for kids — it's the perfect bite-sized project for anyone on your holiday list!
You'll be the star baker with our quilt block cookie recipe that you can arrange to make a star quilt! This recipe is courtesy of our Lead Creative Contributor, Kim Vogelsang, who shares a deeply treasured family recipe with all of our readers in our first-ever quilty recipe.
If you're making a gift for someone who loves to cook, this casserole carrier is sure to get heavy use. And best of all — maybe the chef in your life will make a casserole and carry it over to your house!
These mini oven mitts are great for any baker or cook. They're adorable, plus because they're small, they don't take up much storage space. They even look great hanging from a hook near the oven.
If you have a friend with a green thumb on your list, this handmade gardening apron is a winner. Give it along with a beautiful book about gardening, some tools, or even some seeds!
Here's a great handmade gift for kids! If you know a kid who spends time with a tablet, try making this fabric tablet stand using fabric featuring their favorite color, animal, or character. This stand is perfect for readers, too!
These braided headbands are cute and quick. Perfect for hard-to-shop for kids, tweens, and teens using fabric in their favorite colors. Try making a keychain using this tutorial too!
Here's the ultimate gift for a reader — quilted bookmarks that look like plants! They're so cute both in and out of a book. Gift these bookmarks with a treasured edition of The Secret Garden or other books about plants.
Make a handmade gift that can be used all year long! This sunglasses case has a clever way of staying closed and snapping open — but you'll have to read the tutorial to find out more! These fit standard-sized sunglasses, but can be easily adjusted to fit large sunglasses.
The Best FREE Giftable Tutorials
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The popular tutorials below can all be made before Christmas.
One of our favorite projects each year is our annual ornament tutorial. This year, our ornament is faster and easier than ever! Learn how to make both a pieced and wholecloth version of this simple star ornament that packs a beautiful punch.
New this year! We've turned our 2025 Botanical Block of the Month (quilt pattern available to subscribers of The Cutting Table) into adorable miniature wood quilt blocks. Make your tree more quilty with these ornaments that you can paint in any colors you'd like. Read the blog post for our festive holiday paint colors!
Another viral tutorial this year are these simple felt baskets. Each can be made in about 15 minutes! They are sized to nest into each other and they make a great set. Use these as thread catchers or to hold small sewing tools like binding clips, spools of thread, or pins.
Pickleball has quickly become one of the most popular ways to get exercise. Everyone knows someone who plays! Treat the pickleball fan in your life to a homemade bag made just for them. They'll show off your work to everyone on the court!
Make a tablet case with a twist — a block from the Tiny Pinwheels quilt pattern! This project might look complicated, but it's much easier than it seems and can be made in a weekend. Pair it with a matching fabric tablet stand (tutorial shown earlier in this article) for a stunning gift set!
This hanging scrap basket is the perfect gift for a quilt guild swap! Keep it next to a sewing machine, and it's the perfect place to put all your thread and fabric scraps without needing to take endless trips to the trash can. And because it's adorable, it will make your trash look cute too!
Use the Triangle Jitters quilt pattern to make a matching throw and doll quilt as a gift! Any doll-loving kid would be thrilled to have a new quilt that matches their doll's quilt.
And if you don't have enough time to make both before Christmas, start by making the doll quilt and then make the matching throw quilt as a birthday surprise next year!
Beat the chills with this stylish scarf that uses the Fronds quilt pattern. Adding pom poms to the edges makes this scarf even cuter!
Last but not least, learn how to wrap all your handmade gifts with our fabric gift wrap tutorial! This tutorial walks you through all the steps to use fabric for wrapping five types of gifts, including how to use fabric to wrap a quilt.
What Handmade Gifts Are You Making This Holiday Season?
With three weekends until Christmas, you have plenty of time to make any of the projects in this post! Which will you make and give this holiday season? Be sure to share your photos on Instagram and tag @suzyquilts so we can share and celebrate your creations!
