Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

2011-12-25T17:10:00.002+01:00

The month of December often is a time when we reflect on our childhood memories, on the wonderful festivities or special times we enjoyed when we were very young and blissfully unaware of pressures and demands, and did not yet have to confront the problems of living and making a living in a global world.

We preserve that special place in our memory for reflections and thoughts of times of joy, and our happiness seems to depend on remembering these joyful events, which enables us to view the future with a positive mind as well. Our eyes are said to be the window to our soul, and our memories are our window to our heart and mind, which are the home of our memories. Let us try to regain that feeling of bliss, the happiness and gratitude by giving to those dear to us, to those in need.

Here are some of the gifts I made this year: The star snowflake designed by Judy Gibson. I crocheted the cast-off row with a picot pattern. holding in the edge a bit. This was followed by two extra rows of picot pattern with golden embroidery thread with an extremely fine crochet hook, the size my mother used to repair runs in her nylons when they still were hard to find and cost a fortune. The small star-shaped containers look lovely as a table decoration.

Small gifts for an advent calendar for my daughter Valerie: the Bunnies and The Heartfelt Rings

Winter Breeze

2011-10-23T13:08:00.004+02:00

Squirrels are busy burying walnuts, the cats sidle along the house protected from the wind, spiders stealthily fabricate their web in hidden corners - there is a touch of a Winter Breeze in the air! With the first frost I made this Crazy Lace wrap, using Jane Thornley 's lovely lacy Breeze pattern published in her newsletter and on Ravelry. The Austermann Fancy Mix yarn had been lingering in my stash for quite a while and waited for the right project to come along, and the long wait paid off: there was simply no other yarn to match the beauty of the frosty meadow in the early morning sunlight. I used the Navaho ply in places where the yarn was too thin to keep within the overall weight and added random Crazy Lace rows (Navaho knitting)

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Winter Breeze