Swedish Christmas Crafts
This collection of Swedish Christmas crafts will appeal to crafters fond of the ever-popular Scandinavian design style. The projects are simple and uncomplicated, in keeping with the minimalist, functional, and low-cost principals of Scandinavian design. Lundberg does a nice job incorporating traditional crafts from her homeland of Sweden with modern options that will appeal to kids. Along with typical Christmas crafts of cards, ornaments, and tabletop decorations, Lundberg includes several ideas, such as the Advent candle holder and beaded-tree-candle holder, that invoke Old World traditions with a modern twist. She uses a variety of ready-made, easy-to-find supplies, such as felt, embroidery thread, glitter, paper, ribbon, buttons, and tape, and tips on how to simplify even these simple projects. Few of the projects are complicated, have more than four or five steps, or would take more than an afternoon or evening to finish. Crafters looking for fast, simple, and attractive crafts they can do quickly or with the whole family during the busy Christmas season will find several ideas here. --Jennifer Palmer