Category Archives: Christmas

Remnants From Yesterday’s Work

Yesterday was a fairly successful day. I put the finishing touches on Sugar’s first Christmas set, completed the embroidery on Gina’s mohair Christmas sweater, completed the Santa hat to accompany the mohair sweater, and worked a bit more knitting Millie’s mohair Christmas sweater.

I took these photos this morning from yesterday’s work.

Today I hope to finish Gina’s sweater by sewing on the button beads and stitching up the underarm seams. I also need to add the little belt loops for the ribbon waist tie on the dress and figure out the perfect color of tights. Maybe I will finish knitting Millie’s sweater and/or start sewing her dress. We’ll see.

Have a great day everyone!

Bye for now!

Still Trying to Get In the Christmas Spirit

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It’s really hard to do… in September. Geez, fall hasn’t even officially started yet!

I finished a Christmas outfit this week and it didn’t help to get me in the Christmas spirit… AT ALL. It simply seems way too early to be looking at Gina all bundled up in a wool sweater and hat with fuzzy white trim and Christmas/winter motifs. Yet, I know this is how early I must start to be able to complete LOTS of holiday outfits this year. Hopefully, it will get easier as we get into fall and fall-like weather.

I confess that I had a bit of a setback yesterday when I got back to work on a fall sweater that was barely started when the Christmas bug set in early last week, so you may see another one or two fall ensembles. I love the greyish plum, neutral pink, merlot, and ecru/ivory in this print and wanted to continue with the ensemble.

My pumpkin dress/hat sets are all on their way to dress “tinies” for the fall season. Amelia Thimble, Izzy, Sugar, and I are all very happy that these sets are going to help make some little ones look oh, so cute for pumpkin patch picking!

Well, now I must get to work packing up outfits, printing out labels, and working on that fall outfit. Oh, and I promised to make a pot of soup today, so that we don’t all starve. Ha ha!

Everyone… have a great Monday!

Green and Red

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After showing you my stack of Christmas fabrics in Monday’s post, I picked out two of them to start my holiday ensembles. I picked out my favorites, so I would have the best possible chance of getting in the holiday spirit. (I’ll share with you what those two favorites are soon.) Yesterday and this morning were spent knitting a sweater and hat to go with the first fabric that I picked out. So far so good…I’m making progress. In the meantime, I went through my studio and snapped more photos of all things red and green.

Off the subject, but continuing with the green (and a bit of red) theme…

Did you know it’s National Guacamole Day? I love avocados and try to eat a few every week. However, the grocery store that we shop at was completely out of avocados last Friday. This is a big grocery store with a huge produce department and they didn’t have one avocado for sale, very strange. I wonder if they were being hoarded by someone in anticipation of National Guacamole Day. Hmm…

To help tie these two very dissimilar subjects together, here’s the Grinch (Christmas) made out of guacamole (avocados)! If you click on it, it will enlarge and take you to Pinterest where you can pin it, if you’d like.

Hope you’re enjoying Wednesday. Summer is back here in northern Illinois and tomorrow will be even hotter.