It IS a heel flap, can you believe it!?
What a bummer about the machine. Are there any projects that could be fun to do by hand?
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When this one is ironed I can go and frame it. And I can paint the other frame. I stitched a sampler a few weeks ago and I’ve got another small Christmas sampler almost ready. I could even break my decades-old tradition and frame them right after finishing?
I had wanted to knit something cute for my friend’s toddler. Maybe now I can actually get around to doing that?
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Ohmahgosh you guys I am in love with how these little appreciation gifts are looking! I picked up the soaps from a local farm and just look!
(Imagine me with Kermit muppet arms)
All that’s left is kidlet’s making some beeswax candles and how to package them. Possibly adding a sweet-to-eat treat.
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Wow, they look super fancy and expensive!
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Lovely! And the soaps and wash cloths compliment each other. 
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I love them. I might have to steal this idea. It’s fantastic.
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Thanks, guys! I’m chuffed. I’ve never been this on the ball with handmade gifts before so that it’s working is especially exciting 
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Great gifts darling!
I picked up some cloth to make a big stack of un-paper towels, and started a bunch of funky beaded decor gifts that are staying secret for now.
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Oh, and I spent hours today creating family calendars on the Walgreens website, I have all the monthly pics of the kiddo, and about half of the family birthdays and random funny holidays added in. Yay for easy gifts for grandparents!
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We had the first snow today, a good reminder that Christmas is coming!
I just cast on this sweater for my friend’s toddler: Frosty's Christmas Kids / DROPS Children 30-28 - Free knitting patterns by DROPS Design
It’s been a while since I knitted something that wasn’t a sock so I started with the plain back. I knitted for an hour or so and almost completed half the back - yay for tiny sizes! Not a huge fan of the yarn though. It looks really pretty but I prefer knitting with yarns that aren’t so fuzzy.
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That’s cute and the perfect pattern to start on a snowy day 
33 days until December 23rd!
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I’ve been doing quite a bit of framing, now I can’t sew. I’m in the middle of painting another thrift shop frame and these will be next:
Finishing in a hoop is not my favourite thing to do but they’ll look great when they’re done. I just need to find matching paint or ribbon in my stash. The animal-themed ones are stitched by @jemimah .
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I was at Walmart today, so I picked up some Mason jars, and the ingredients to make Friendship Soup in a Jar Mixes for holiday gifting. Sadly, they were out of pearled barley, so I have to find that elsewhere. Now I’m using naptime to finish some handmade beaded gifts!
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I love seeing the bottom three together like that! What size are they? I would love to stitch those up one year as gifts (probably not enough time this year!).
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The hoops are 5" and the patterns closer to 4" ( on standard sized aida, is that 14 count?) There are only 4 or 5 colours and they’re whole stitches only, so they don’t take long to stitch.
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They are so cute. I tracked down the patterns on Etsy. 
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They came from an older issue of Cross Stitcher, maybe 2022 or 2021?
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I think these are the same? (Or close enough!)
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