Crafts - December 2024

[smallhobbit]

Along with the Christmas cards I stitched (see yesterday's post) I also stitched a band for our Christmas cake:

   



And I continued with my StitchALong, reaching January





I knitted a Christmas tree to go on our tree:



And for Christmas I received yarn from J; this for a jumper, for which I chose the colours



and this for wrist warmers for which he chose the colour:

Comments

[badly_knitted]

The cake band is lovely, and the stitchalong is progressing well.

Cute little Christmas tree!

Yay for yarn!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much. I never know what I want for Christmas, so yarn seemed a good idea - lasting pleasure. I bought J the music books he wanted.

[badly_knitted]

Yarn is one thing I don't need, I've already got so much, so I asked for cutting dies to use with my cuttlebug.

[smallhobbit]

I have lots of part balls, but not enough for a jumper and I wanted thick yarn for the wrist warmers. Cutting dies sound like an excellent choice.

[badly_knitted]

Part balls are good for a lot of things, but not for a sweater. You'll be cosy with your new sweater and wrist warmers.

They definitely are. I haven't tried them all out yet, just the three rectangular sets, but I'm very happy with what I got.

[annofowlshire]

Love it all!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much!

[debriswoman]

Lovely stitchery 😊😊

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much!

[adafrog]

Cute band!
Pretty.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much!

[apachefirecat]

Very cute! I especially adore the little horse and sun fan! :)

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much - I too liked the horse :)

[sister_raphael]

What a great idea for a cake band! They're all lovely!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you. I used it plain last year, so thus year I decided to stitch it and then we can use it every year.

[meridian_rose]

Stitching a cake band isn't something that would have occurred to me; it looks amazing! I love the knitted Christmas tree! :D

[smallhobbit]

As a child our cake always had a paper cake band, which came out every year and grew very tatty. For various reasons in 2023 I only iced the top of the cake and used a handy piece of fabric as the band, which gave me the idea. Last December I ran out of time to complete it - although it's only the back section which is blank, so my plan is to finish it for this Christmas.

And thank you. I like to make something new for the tree every year.