Christmas Decorating, Knitting and Crochet

I’m not sure where the time has gone, but December is half over already.  My favorite thing about the holidays is spending time with family and friends.  My second favorite thing is decorating the house for Christmas.  I love pulling out all my old favorite decorations to enjoy for the month (or maybe more).  I’ve made quilts, cross stitch and crocheted things that I love to unpack and display.  I wish I could show you everything, but for now I’ll start with the guest room.  Here is the quilt I made a few years ago.  This was a mystery quilt from Kevin the Quilter.  

This is the tree in the corner of the guest room.  I crocheted the tree skirt a few years ago.  The pattern is really easy.  I can share it with you if you’d like.  

I like to decorate our back porch.  It’s enclosed, but at these temperatures it’s too cold to sit out there.  Still, I enjoy looking at the decorations.  

The pillow on the couch is from my Charming Hexagon pillow pattern.  The pillows that look like giant peppermint candies came from the Target dollar spot last year.  I made the tree skirt under this tree, too.  It’s the same pattern as the one in the guest room.  It just looks different because I used different yarn. 

On the coffee table is a mix of pine cones from the farm where my husband grew up.  I touched up the pine cone edges with white paint.  Some even have glitter.  The vintage ornaments were on my mother-in -laws tree.  And the big light bulbs were on our house when we were first married and bought our first house.  

I haven’t done much sewing lately to show.  I’ve been enjoying knitting hats and scarves to donate.  

I was looking at my yarn UFOs, and I found this Christmas afghan that I started to crochet.  I checked on my crochet blog, and this picture was in a post there in September 2015.  This is a 10 year old UFO.  I really love this Granny Stripe pattern.  The pattern is on my crochet blog, too.  

I’ve put a few more rows on.  I’d love to finish this by Christmas, but I know that I’m a seasonal crafter.  Once Christmas is over this afghan will probably go back in the drawer until next year. I'm going to keep working on it so hopefully I'll finish in time. 

We had a nice Thanksgiving with only a few mishaps.  The top half of my double oven decided to be stuck on broil.  That was not helpful for trying to bake Thanksgiving dinner.  I know before I moved here I managed to get everything on the table at the same time with my oven, but I’ve gotten used to having two ovens to get all of the dishes baked and warm at the same time.  The oven was just repaired a couple days ago, so I’m ready for Christmas baking and cooking. 

The ice maker in our refrigerator door decided to stop working right after Thanksgiving, too.  My answer for everything that stops working is to throw the circuit breaker.  Well it worked.  So that was one repair we avoided.  Our garage door opener wouldn’t work over the summer, and throwing the circuit breaker fixed that, too.  It doesn’t work with everything, but I look at it like when I’m doing something on the computer and I click too many things too fast, and the computer hangs up.  Sometimes just a simple reboot helps.  The important thing is that we were all together and had a wonderful Thanksgiving day.  

There’s still lot to do.  Hope your Christmas plans are coming together.  

Thanks for stopping by for a visit!

I hope you are finding some time to stitch today.