22 Weeks Until Christmas! Are you working on or planning to give knit or crochet or sewn gifts this Christmas? I started my cotton kitchen dish cloths a few weeks ago; I have a big basket to fill and I take it with me to family gatherings and let people take what they need.
I don’t plan on participating in this Make-Along, but there were good links to gift ideas and patterns and stocking stuffer events (small projects), too. Enjoy!
Christmas Stocking Make-Along:
My SIL tells me she loves the fingerless mittems I make so I might have a basket of mittens - got a lot I started last year & all that needs to be done is put on the thumbs (knitted).
Also, an idea I’ve never ‘made good’ on is making tatted snowflakes. I have done needle tatting; however, the patterns I have are for shuttle tatting so there’s a pretty good learning curve to overcome. A friend of mine does crocheted snowflakes every year - picks a pattern & makes it for everyone - I have quite the collection many years later. She does a really good job with them.
The mittens are more likely than the snowflakes and even more likely to happen for Christmas giving is Blackberry Merlot & Jalapeno Pepper Jelly, perhaps some Salsa. These are the 3 most popular/requested items I make.
I knit some masks from Patons Stretch Socks yarn. They only stop dirtly luoks, but they are comfy and better fitting than cloth. Then I started making socks after I got tired of masks. Almost done with the third pair.
Also making an afghan for youngest married daughter in shades of silver, gray and black yarns in various textures, ribbon, eyelash and whatever.
I have a ribbon sweater on the needles also, but realized I needed to down size to 11’s but the afghan is on them, so gotta finish one before I restart the other.
Also have a a crochet top going. The kind where it’s all one motif that you crochet together as you go. I get bored after two or three, so I have it on the dressmaker dummy in the corner to remind me to do a couple now and then.