Making my friend a gift...a good thing?

[Slartibartfast]

"Homemade AND TACKY" is fine if you're seven.  Homemade from an adult can be great IF it's tasteful, useful, beautiful, or some combination of the three.  I mean, if I got a "homemade" crayon picture drawn by my DH (who has no artistic talent), it might be sweet or romantic, but I would hope that wasn't the only thing he got me for Christmas.  A "homemade" crayon picture from a three-year-old would be a perfectly adequate present, though.  Same as if my DH made me cookies for my birthday but burned them all, it would be a sweet idea, but a bit lacking.  If my niece made me cookies, it would be a wonderful present, even if there were a little burnt.

[RuneGuardian]

Sorry to drag this back up, but I just wanted to update. I gave my friend his gift and he fell right in love with it. He never put it down from the moment he unwrapped it  . He knows I'm sort of a novice at sewing (the one he received was the second one I've made), and he was pleasantly surprised at how well I got it to look like the reference image; I was too. If I ever get my hands on a digital camera, I'll take a picture of it and post it here.

Thank you all again for the input.

[MissBrit]

I LOVE the idea of homemade gifts. I make a special homemade card every birthday and christmas for one of my friends because she loves them much more than store bought. I like it because I can bring up some of our little inside jokes. Most of my friends like homemade gifts. I just have one friend who doesn't think they are practical enough. Then again, she hasn't really appreciated many of the store bought gifts I have given her either so what's new?