Here’s a great idea for a quick gift, you can make this from scraps! Reversible Christmas Coasters made by @photojenn
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Finished some gift bags & letter tags tonight.
These UFOs have been hanging around for so long, glad to have them done!
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2,5 months later… I finally managed to knit that pair of fingerless gloves! I started late afternoon after I’d done chores and shopping, put on a film and knit the first one during that (2,5 hours). Then after dinner I started on the second one and finished before bed. This was my first pair of fingerless gloves ever but they’re so easy, much easier than socks, I already know I can knit those on a train or in hospital without referring to the pattern all the time.
I had two balls of sock yarn, one pink variegated, one blue variegated, but the yarn is quite bulky for socks (I used 4mm knitting needles) so it wouldn’t be enough yarn for a pair of socks and I prefer a thinner yarn for socks. Each ball will yield two pairs of gloves, so 3 more pairs to go and this yarn is out of my stash.
I think I’ll knit a blue pair next and give them to my mum when I see her, her heating bill has tripled so she’s working from home in a cold house now and I’ll keep the first pink pair. My original plan was one pair for my sister and one for my brother’s partner for last Christmas, but they split up 
Didn’t know them that well but they seemed nice.
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Not sure what the purpose (or future) is for these tiny nesting “baskets” but they are Christmassy and so I shall post them here.
They should be called, “Shouldn’t you be doing something else right now,” baskets because yes, yes I should… but I am not. Lol
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Cute! You’ll find a use for them…
I call those kinds of projects my “avoidance projects”…when I know I have other things I should be working on, work, housecleaning, exercising, etc. Hey…at least you are being productive!!
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Super freaking cute!
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Thank you!
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I picked up some Christmas stitching this week. Also a WIP from last Christmas that I didn’t get around to finishing. I’ve been complaining about the bad light in our rental that makes stiching harder, but this is a light coloured 14 count aida and bold colours of thread, this is fine. So good to know I can still do some stichting, especially now we’re going to have to stay here a bit longer.
These will be 3 stocking-shaped ornaments. No real plans for them, just loved the colours.
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They are lovely colors!
I think I would do more cross stitch if the patterns were smaller and not so overwhelming to me.
I really like the snow covered cottage size.
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Somehow I always end up stitching little cottages! There are plenty of cottages in my tree - I’m sure these will also end up in the tree, unless I give them away first. Most of my decoration is cottages, trees and animals, especially birds.
These patterns are from Cross Stitcher magazine and they often do smaller patterns. What I also like about smaller patterns is that it’s much easier to change them a bit or use different colours. For larger patterns, that’s much more difficult.
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I put strings in the last fabric gift bags the other day. I feel caught up on spring celebration carrot bags this year, I guess I could start some larger gift bags. I still have SO MUCH wintery fabric to use up.
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Carrots could work for Xmas if you pair them with some white bags with black buttons/circles maybe?
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Ha! Great idea! It’s gonna be an orange xmas, lol.
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And don’t forget “Reindeer treats!”
(We put out a carrot with the cookies for Santa.)
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Carrots are not good reindeer food…it is not grown in the areas where they live.
Myth 2 – Reindeer eat carrots
Recent surveys have suggested that British people leave out around 3,000 tonnes of carrots for Rudolph to eat every Christmas Eve. But we aren’t sure where this tradition stems from as they do not grow in sub-Arctic habitats, and reindeer physically can’t eat carrots. Their lack of top teeth prevents them from chewing them down into a digestible size.
The food of choice for most reindeer is lichen, a fungi-algi symbiote, that grows here in the Cairngorm mountains and keeps the herd healthy. We also use it to help entice our reindeer during handling, or sometimes just give it out as a treat!
ha ha can we craft lichen? ha ha ha
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My mom always put out carrots then left the chewed butt end for morning. She is hilarious, that mom o’ mine.
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My dad did the same and also left one cookie with just a bite with a note that Santa ate too many cookies and got full! ha ha
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For easter she’d stick a finger in a plant pot & leave bunny footprints on the note. 
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We leave carrots in our shoes for St. Nick’s horse! His horse is pretty cool, it can walk on the roofs.
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