Home-made

If you're a crafty sort of person, you may know about this site already. Purl Bee is an America-based site that posts up free patterns for clothes, including baby clothes, patterns for quilts and toys and things. Check out all the patterns on the right hand side of the site, pretty much all would make good presents, or will at least stop you going out to spend a fortune on something everyone else has. For time-poor new mums and dads, there are some easy clothes patterns for a new baby. There are also some fabulous homewares patterns, like these stripy knitted rugs.