Learned to enjoy Christmas…
Merry Christmas everyone! I’m in quite a festive mood this year, which is a definite departure, as I’m usually a bit of a Grinch this time of year. Don’t get me wrong, I love hanging out with family and exchanging gifts, but the craziness of it all gets to me at times. This year however, I armed myself with the one two punch combo of hand knitting gifts and online shopping, so my retail excursions were minimal.
I did lose a bit of Christmas spirit today when I went into a certain big box craft store to find that the Christmas section was being torn down and replaced with Valentine’s Day. I was a bit infuriated, but any thoughts of tree burning were quickly squelched when I finished this little beauty.
It’s a Grinch Green Christmas Tree (pattern at Monster Yarn), and I love it ever so much. It was a gift for my extended family’s gift exchange on Christmas Eve, and it was well received, along with many requests for duplicates :) Nothing like a fun fur tree to make that Christmas spirit soar again.
Have a good one everyone! I hope your Christmas day is filled with food, fun and maybe even a bit of knitting. I finished all but one of my gift hats, and I don’t think the final recipient will mind too much if I gift his hat towards the end of the day.
I’m sure the recipient won’t mind a hat a few hours late.
Love that tree! Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Love the fun fur tree!!! Beautiful hats, too. Merry Christmas. And thanks for blogging. Yours is one of my favorites.
Merry Christmas! (I finished my last knitted gift at 1am…)
Merry Christmas Adam!
Merry Christmas indeed! Your hats look lovely - any chance of sharing where the pattern for the blue and red ones came from?
Merry Christmas! And I definitely have to make that tree next year. :-)
Merry Christmas! Love the tree. I guess since the Christmas stuff went up so early they think they should take it down early too. I did most of my shopping online too.
oh i LOVE that tree! i am SO gonna make one . . . i wonder how many skeins you’d need for a 6-ft one? . . . hmmm
Merry Christmas! Cute tree and I love your hats!
Merry Christmas!!!!!
i love your tree. it’s one of the cutest i’ve seen this year.
i hate shopping too- online shopping is the only way to go!! have a wonderful christmas. i hope you get lots of nerdy presents ;).
Merry Christmas! Hope you had some time to stop and really celebrate the meaning of the season. Great hats, by the way!
Love the tree - thanks for sharing that, I’ll have to try that one next year!
Merry Christmas…and I’m about to make one of those hats!
I LOVE it, a knitted Christmas tree! I’m too late to say “Merry Christmas”…but I do hope that your New Year is filled with laughter, delight, merriment, prosperity, excellent health, curiosity, joy and fine companionship to your exact specifications! Now that the fuss is settled down I can root around in all the crumpled paper and try to find my knitting……..I know it’s here. I know it. I’m sure. Isn’t it?
Merry Christmas, I’m so glad that the Grinch didn’t steal all the fun ;-)
Merry Christmas, Adam! Unless I’d actually seen how cute that tree is, I would never have dreamed that it could look so great. I think it’s the olive colour of the yarn that saves it from actually being ‘kitschy’(sp?) I’ve saved the pattern on my ‘to do list’ for gifting next Christmas. Maybe if I get started now, I’ll have more than 1 to gift!
Happy holidays to you Adam!
One of the few reasons to actually knit with fun fur. Cute stuff like that! neat! I may have to make one for next year since Calvin seems to be allergic to the real thing. Poor guy.
Those hats look awesome btw.
Glad the holidays were good to you! It can get overwhelming and the early push of holidays puts a big damper on my spirit too. I found this year less stressful myself, not sure why, I think age has something to do with it for me.
that is an awesome tree. something else to add to my TO DO list!!! and I love the hats. Here’s to a stress-less(er) 2008!!
I love the tree! I so want the pattern — where did you find the pattern???!!!
DUH!
Read more closely Helen… it’s right there with a link and everything. Perhaps I should try wearing my glasses next time.
Best use of fun fur I’ve ever seen. Merry Merry and welcome to 08.
Everything is lovely! Happy new year to you.