Merry Christmas, friends!! We had a lovely celebration yesterday - morning Mass with my parents, a small gathering at our house, our traditional Christmas Snack Table, and lots of delightful family time (including a walk in the late afternoon warmish weather!) I hope you and your family enjoyed a beautiful day of merriment and joy to celebrate the birth of our Savior!!
Anyway... Christmas Day is done, so that means I finally get to show you what I had been working on for gifts! This year I had been working on a few crochet afghans, so I ended up giving fewer (but bigger) handmade gifts than usual.
Over a year ago I started making afghans for my older boys. The girls each have a quilt that I made them, so I making blankets for the boys was a priority. They chose the color scheme themselves and then I did the "design" and work.
Aaron chose red, orange, and yellow. So here's what I came up with....
Oh wait - please understand that it's super hard to take pictures of blankets that are spread out on the ground. If I was suspended from the ceiling I could get an ok shot perspective-wise, but as it it, standing on my tip-toes on my coffee table or couch, you get a picture that makes it look like all the blankets I make are trapezoids. They are not. It just looks like they are :)
So, here's Aaron's blanket...
Dominic chose blue and green...
We had to check Aaron's blood a gazillion times last night but it helped ease the pain and annoyance of late-night arm wrestling with a sleeping child to see him snuggled up like this :)
James didn't really have a say as to what his blanket looked like...
I suspected that this would happen, but James definitely did not want a new blanket in his crib last night. You know how babies get used to the things they have in their beds night after night... well, it's going to take a warming up period before James is ok with adding this to his "comfort things" :)
The last afghan I gave was to my parents. It's a granny rectangle that I started back in March. I LOVE this blanket. The colors! The softness! I'm looking forward to having one in my living room :) It was so big that I couldn't even get the whole thing in a picture -- so you'll just have to use your common sense to visualize the rest of the rectangle...
Finally I made a few hats for the little kids...
I used this pattern for the Viking hats and this idea for the princess hat....
They're good for dress up indoors...
Or for dressing up your brother...
And the only non-yarn items were the saint dolls I painted for St. Nicholas Day. Added to our collection this year were St. Nicholas, St. Joan of Arc, St, Juan Diego, St. George, and St. Lucia :)
So, that was it this year. Now starts the season where I typically make something for myself. What will it be??? Last year it was cotton dishcloths. I think I need a new blanket :)
So, that was it this year. Now starts the season where I typically make something for myself. What will it be??? Last year it was cotton dishcloths. I think I need a new blanket :)
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