Times Being What They Are, I wound up making nearly all my gifts for Yule 2020. At first I was hoping to make at least some on my machine, but that didn’t work out.
Here’s a gallery of what I managed to photograph before it got dropped off at various family curbsides. All of the hats except for the play crown are from an old 1990s Vogue Knitting On the Go book I have.
This was made from leftovers of all the other things I made, and went to a friend’s niece.
For my youngest (currently a toddler) nephew, who finds hats with sticky-outy bits very amusing.
Nephew the Younger is too little to have strong likes and dislikes yet (that he can articulate, anyhow), so I made him a whale shark stuffy.
For my eldest nephew, who is often in power struggles with his younger brother. The practical crown can be worn to a playground, while the play one was improvised to be worn over hoodies and other hats.
For Nephew the Elder, since he loves the book Where the Wild Things Are. This came out much too big for him, but at the rate he’s growing, it will fit soon enough.
For Niece the Younger, who loves everything about Paris. The pullover itself was knit in the round up to the armholes, since I didn’t know how much the tower embroidery would wrap around the side of it. The tower itself is worked in cross-stitch to emulate the construction of the actual tower.
For Niece the Younger, because she likes “fancy” things. Made from wool sock yarn and small blue glass beads. So many small blue glass beads. Over 600 of them.
For Niece the Elder, who likes sweatshirt-style pullovers and has an orange cat. The sleeves’ asymmetrical colour is on purpose, and was partly an excuse to balance the colours out a little.
The back of the orange cat pullover, which shows the orange cat is pulling the yarn from a skein.
For Niece the Elder, so she too can be an orange cat. The style is a bit too “pretty” for her, but she liked it because it matched the pullover and therefore her real cat as well.