Wow, this post is late! I didn't plan to make very many Christmas gifts, but somehow I ended up making a bunch anyway. This quilt was for my Grandma, and it was a team effort with my mom. We had given Grandma the fabric and pattern for Christmas two or three years ago, but we came to the conclusion that she was never going to sew it, so we decided to do it for her. It was relatively quick (two weekends), and fun to do together! It came out great, and Grandma loves it.
I've done Christmas sweaters for my niece and nephew every year so far (although last year I made a flannel shirt for my nephew instead of a sweater), and I kind of thought last year was going to be the last year - they're getting big, and the sweaters are getting to be more of a production. But then I hit on the idea of a ballet wrap sweater for my dance-obsessed niece, and I couldn't not do one more year.
I used free patterns and used worsted weight superwash wool from Valley Yarns (the Webs house brand). They were fun to knit, and apparently were a hit with the kids.
Earlier in the Fall, I knit a pair of socks for Robert for Christmas. He loves them, but has dubbed them "the betrayal socks," because I knit them right in front of him without telling him they were for him. He assumed they were for me, and was surprised that I was knitting myself socks in a blue tweedy yarn. He tells me that he resisted the urge to ask if he could have them - he did it so well that I hesitated a bit to wrap them up for Christmas, because I wasn't sure if he liked them!
And lastly, I made a few Christmas-y kitchen things for us. I took two fat quarters of Christmas-y fabric I bought for this purpose in Fall 2016 and finally made a set of four holiday napkins for our dining table. I also knitted three Christmas dishcloths. One of them made its way into my mom's stocking, and we kept the other two for ourselves.
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