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The Regia twins look like this now.
The 2025 stocking KAL looks like this. Don't you just love those bells and bows?
The stocking I just finished is hung by the chimney with care. Not really. It's hung by the TV. That afterthought heel is....awful. I'm going to try it again with the stocking I'm working on and see if I can get it right this time. One of the mistakes I made was to insert it into a stranded section which made it messy. Arne and Carlos designed it to be in between two solid rows in this year's pattern. The other mistake was to make it too big. I would tear it out and make it smaller but there's a lot of kitchener going on there and I don't have the nerve.
All summer long I was rotating my Jardin Prive Patchwork seasons samplers but I never worked on this one. I knew I only had one border to finish and I wanted to save it until December.
I also have the Christmas Quaker out again. I'll never finish this. Hopefully I will get that little wreath I've started in the bottom left done this year.
I had a lot going on this week, including a painfully injured neck and shoulder that kept me from doing much of anything. I didn't meet my quota of two blocks for Patchwork of the Crosses but I gave it a good try.
Ditto for Dear Jane. I didn't stitch much this week but I did watch another holiday movie. I cried my way through Snow Sister. 5/5 trees. I loved it.
The Mister woke up like a kid on Christmas itching to get to the first box of his advent puzzle. It took him about 20 minutes to get it assembled.
While he was busy assembling, I was putting up the advent sweaters....
...and changing out the kitchen linens for December.
I didn't decorate too much. I have a closet full of stuff that comes out in dribs and drabs later on but I have to get out the twinkle light my parents gave me many, many moons ago. They gave each of us one and we all cry and commiserate when we get them out each year.
I also freed my holiday Barbies from the back of the shelves and brought them into the living area for the holidays. They are so pretty. I hate to admit it but I spent a ridiculous time combing through eBay to see if there were more vintage ones that needed a good home. No luck so far, but the month is young.
And.... we put up the Ikea star front window display. Nothing says the holidays more than having extension cords all over the place.
I cheated the December KAL for the Christmas stocking Arne and Carlos just finished. I was going to do 6 rows a day in December like they did but I got carried away. I'm hoping this momentum continues. I did try that new tiny needle again and now I love it. It definitely has improved the small circumference tension issues I have with colorwork.
Speaking of issues, that afterthought heel that was supposed to be so easy was anything but. It seems I had crossed my yarns in the scrap yarn area so my heel would not open up. I had to steek the darn thing and it's a mess. The knitting part seems easy but I'm not done so I will withhold my judgement until I actually get a heel. I did not use the one Arne and Carlos have in their pattern. I found an even simpler one online. I hope.
On a happier note, I have some new yarn that just arrived. I've got some more Palette in the colors of my Mosi sweater in hopes of making a hat to match. Some Halloween yarn in the Sanderson colorway also jumped in my cart. I could use a new pair of Halloween socks. The Felici ones I have are nearly worn out. It's a lovely soft sock yarn but I find it doesn't hold up well which is actually fine. It gives me an excuse to knit more.
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