Holiday Crafting Update

Well, the sweater from the last post has the back completed and the two sleeves are on the needles right now.  They are about half done.  I like knitting both at the same time as they will truly be the same!  I'm putting the front off until the end--haven't done intarsia before, but am going to attempt it.  In fact, the original design had a frog on it, but O likes dinosaurs better, so a brontosaurus he gets.  Had to get out my cross stitch software to draw one out and make sure it fits the front.  Hope he enjoys it.

I discovered Tunisian crochet last month.  Oh, my.  Blame Craftsy--they let met have a month of any classes I wanted to watch and I only had to pay $20 for the month.  Got to see some awesome things, but I got hooked (hee, hee) on Tunisian crochet.  Jennifer Hansen and Dora Ohrenstein both have amazing classes that I watched.  I actually have Addi crochet hooks that you can attach to the circular knitting needle lines, and away I went!  I got a spa cloth done, and now probably need to do a couple more for the girls.  Maybe we can do a spa day over the holidays.

Last, but not least, I also watched several crochet classes and decided V, E & K need new hats for Christmas.  The nice thing about crochet is that when you have to take something out, you just yank the yarn back to where you made the error. Tuesday I started a hat for Miss K, and finished crocheting on Saturday.  OK, so maybe there's something else I adore, like how quickly small projects go!  Anyway, I decided it needs some embellishment, so I see a flower or two on my hooks this week.