Christmas 2009

I was roaring into Christmas while I still had summer energy. I finally made an adult sized tree hat, as I envisioned last year---vs. just saying in my pattern that one could.


And I made a tree that could be a kid's hat.


And I made a slimmer version of my tree.

I really love my tree,that it evolved from reading a lot and making a number of others.
I would love to explore more shapes and forms, bu alas, I don't have any suitable yarn to play with... I would like to try to build one of oversized leaves...

Christmas Tree Pattern!

At last, I join the glad group! After several all nighters, I've finished my Christmas Tree patterns.

This way I pay hommage, as I will to the end of my days, to the beautiful people, the parents who turned their poor selves inside out to make magic in my life. We were poor and they were brilliant and loving. I remember when I grew
up, that the best part was that we were all together. A whole day in our pajamas and hanging out, singin Christmas crols, I played poorly on the piano and before the piano, acappella with my fahter's warm stonr tenor and my mother's sweet soprano. As my father would say, " the gang" was at home, together.




A day spent in peace and celebration. Both my parents had December birthdays and I vowed, and kept that vow, from a very early age, to observe and celebrate their birthdays. They had very kindly had me in June, plenty of time to get loaded up again on presents. I didn't want them, my beloved ones, to be without and it pained me to think that their own births, by accident of proximity, were overshadowed by Christ's.



My father wasn't always able to be with us, once from some horrible something that made his hands blister and swell, and other times, because as he worked his way up, he had to work. How they always surprised, I have no idea, but they did.

Anyway I digress. We preferred the "fluffy" trees, the scotch pines over the balsam firs. I've got my trees
patterns at Etsy
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18361198

as well as several little trees.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18328038
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18287504
Joy in the making!

Crochet Christmas Trees

I saw a new trio of trees in a for-sale knitting pattern on Ravelry. I dug them! And then I thought I can do that in crochet!
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/oh-christmas-trees



I stayed up last night til this morning and finished them


The one on the left is an original pattern. The one in the middle is a free pattern online.
http://www.wrights.com/wrights/class/12_xmas/crotree/crotree.htm
The one on the right is improvised.

I've written the tree pattern. Will strive to make another one tonight to test it.
So many of the list pages are malware or fronts for selling, so I hope you'll enjoy seeing what I found as I searched around.

Other Christmas Tree patterns:

http://www.paperthetown.com/crafts/z30.htm

http://www.mypicot.com/christmas_crochet_patterns04.html -- fab tree with branches

On Michael's
http://www.michaels.com/art/online/projectsheet?pid=h00062 this reads familiar, but the base is looped before branches are added-- i think I'll try this one when i finish with my giftmaking.

http://www.orble.com/free-rockefeller-center-christmas-tree-crochet-pattern/
She makes the bottom separate-- i prefer to never sew and so for my little tree on right, backstitch decreases gave me a flat bottom.



http://sarahanns.com/crochetworks/tptoppers.html fabulous site fabulous
http://sarahanns.com/crochetworks/gingerbread.html great tiny tree!

http://donnascrochetdesignstheblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/table-top-christmas-tree-free-crochet.html
a 13-inch tree




http://gnathalie2.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/super-easy-xmas-tree/
love this! it's the insight that gave me the tiny tree.



here's a lovely simple crochet snowflake
http://www.theknittingparlour.co.uk/doc/christmas%20snowflake%20pattern.pdf