Capture December, Day 8 - Ornaments

I love our ornaments, but I imagine everyone would say that about the ones they've collected. ;-) Yes, many have been given to us, and of course many we have collected ourselves. A few we've made, or someone else made and gave to us.

So it was very hard to pick just one ornament....

This little guy I got on my first real trip out of the country, a business trip to Zurich. It was the late spring, so finding a Christmas ornament was fun!

Gnome from Zurich

 Slightly blurry picture of a ceramic snowman on a bell.

His butt jingles lol

I was trying to capture how the lights shine through her shiny bits

Santa's butt is a green glass ornament ball, the rest of him is an art clay.

 A couple years ago, I made a bunch of knitted ornaments, this is one set I kept

A hat, sweater and mittens all out of the same sock yarn

Rachel made these several years ago and gave them out

An emergency knitting kit - needles and yarn with glitter

The start of the tinies

Starting work on the mini ornaments. I have a Tiny Tee Raglan, that really is a 'tee' as in more of shirt style than a sweater.

I was winding up the Happy Feet I got for these projects and I noticed the bag that had my Yarn Samples from the Sampling class at Knit Purl this last fall. I popped each little bit on the ball winder and made mini-cakes. Then on the digital scale to find out how much I had.

It's still guess work for me on if I will have enough since so many of the designers put the yardage of the skein they used and don't include if they used the entire thing or not. Since these mini-ornaments are supposed to use leftover sock yarns, I figured I stood a good chance with my samples.

I had to borrow a foot or so from the Happy Feet to bind off the sweater tee. I still think it looks terribly cute. I need to have Brandon bring be home some paper clips from the office so that I can make a hangar for it too.




Another full sweater tomorrow and mittens, hats and socks - all mini.