How is your holiday knitting coming? Are you just about done or are you headed into panic mode? I think I’m just about done with one exception. My husband asked me to knit a hat for one of his friends and he ended up liking it a lot. So, I decided to knit one for him for his Christmas Eve stocking. It’s the Welldigger hat in case you need one last fast gift for someone on your list. It’s an easy slip stitch pattern that’s fast to knit and is really stretchy. Perfect if you don’t know exactly the right size to knit. I did mine in lovely Canopy Worsted but it’s perfect for just about any worsted weight yarn.
This week’s prize is a little treat to reward yourself for getting through all those holiday gifts. I put together a little gift pack with some of my favorite items – Soak Wash in Aquae, A Lavishea Bar in Yarn Bar, Heel Peppermint Foot Creme and Soak Labels of Love.
Just some little treats for your hands, feet and woolies. Plus, you can add a Label of Love to your gifts so that all those people receiving lovely hand knits will know how to care for them!
To enter to win the this week’s prize, just leave a comment with one of you favorite holiday traditions. When we were first married, my husband and I lived far from our families and we had a lot of fun creating our own holiday traditions together. One of my favorites is our Christmas Eve stockings. When I was a little girl, I was always envious of the families who opened gifts on Christmas Eve. Waiting for Christmas day was so hard! So, we put small things in each other’s stockings and we open that on Christmas Eve and save everything else for Christmas morning.
I look forward to reading about your favorite traditions! We’ll announce the winner on Monday, December 12.
We set up all our nativity sets without any baby Jesus. He stays hidden until Christmas Day when he’s placed in the manger. Rav amchart
My favorite tradition is when my daughter was little, we spent a whole day baking and decorating cookies. We both had so much fun! Debbie H
Our holiday traditions have changed a bit with the arrival of my grandchildren, especially grandson Liam who was born on Christmas Day! Since we have to share the kids with their other grandparents, we have taken to being with them on Christmas Eve. We’ve done the Christmas exchange first and then the birthday party next the past 2 years. This year, Liam’s party will be first, with a cupcake for him and cake pops for the rest. I’m going to put up our Happy Birthday sign, too.
Then, we’ll have the Christmas thing after dinner.
Then, on Christmas Day, my son, husband and I usually go to see a movie. That has been so fun. This year, we’re probably going to see the new Sherlock Holmes, then come home and have food, not leftovers, but finger foods and probably watch football. The key is to relax!
Every year in December I used to read A Christmas Carol – I had a special copy of the book, which was a reproduction of the original published book, but was itself so old as to be an antique. Somehow, that gilt-edged gem of a little book must have been a big part of the ritual, because one year I gave the book to a dear friend…and haven’t read A Christmas Carol since! Time for a new ritual
Every year my sister and I drive around town looking at the Christmas lights & decorations people had put up. We usually listen to Christmas music and stop and get a hot chocolate or coffee somewhere. Christmas is my favorite time of year. Watching all the Christmas movies, sending cards, and decorating.
I love the simple and relaxing laziness of Christmas Day! Getting up whenever, having a big breakfast with everyone sitting around the table in a cheerful mood, and then unwrapping presents. Usually, the whole day is spent in pj’s, or perhaps we go for a walk on the beach. No rush, nowhere to be- I love it!
No traditions anymore as we are all spread out. But my favorite one as a young person was the frosting of the sugar cookies. I can remember how we would make all different kinds of cookies but my favorite ones were the sugar cookies. Moms least favorite were the sugar cookies, with all the work. When my daughter was little the tradition was passed on I was the one that dreaded all the work that went into them & Meghan couldn’t wait to decorate. They are still my favorite cookie.
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Fondue for Christmas Eve. Don’t know when my parents started doing it, but it was prob. when they got married. So, we grew up with in, and my husband thinks it’s a lovely tradition, so we’ve continued it. Nothing quite like melted cheese on bread on a fork!
How lovely. One of our traditions is to take a drive to look at all the lights in several different neighborhoods, and then we drive through a local park where the local electrical contractors union sets up several light displays throughout the park. My kids just love it and at Thanksgiving they are always asking to go see the light display.
my family is chinese so we dont celebrate christmas. So I am really looking towards to going to my boyfriend’s christmas every year and going through their traditions such as drinking lots of beer on xmas day.
We get to open one present on Christmas Eve, a tradition I’ve had since I was a child.
I make all of my favorite Christmas cookies that my Mom always made while I was growing up. Now my 4year old gets as excited about tasting them as I always did.
My husband and I have a ritual of decorating our Christmas tree with music from “A Charlie Brown Christmas” playing in the background. Some of the ornaments remind us of the loved ones who gave them to us. Others remind us of places we’ve traveled to together. Others are just plain cute! Each tree ornament is wrapped in tissue paper for storage, and as they emerge, it’s like we’re seeing old friends again.
We’ve always have cinnamon roll to eat on Christmas morning, it was the only thing I could get hte girls to eat.
We always exchange names – and everyone got a new pair of jammies – You had to sleep in them on Christmas Eve and wear them to open presents on Christmas day!
Our favorite family tradition is to load everyone up in the car on Christmas Eve and listen to Christmas Carols on the radio while we drive around and ohh and ahh at lights. Then we come home for Hot Chocolate and cookies and open one small package. I thought the kids were too old to want to do this anymore but they were telling our exchange student about it while I shamelessly eavesdropped and they still love it.
One of my favorite traditions is making Mickey Mouse waffles on Christmas morning. I don’t know when it started, but my family has had that waffle iron as long as I can remember.
we don’t really have any traditions any more, but as a kid, my favorite one was baking candy cane cookies with my mom.
It was quite a process that involved refrigerating the dough, rolling the 2 colors together and crushing candy canes to sprinkle on the hot cookies as they came out of the oven.
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Every year I go to see the Christmas programs that various churches put on every year.
Our tradition started last year when my “frog-crazed” daughter was begging and begging me to make her Frederick in the Knitted Toy Tales book. I decided to make him (her-she’s now Frederica) for her for Christmas morning so when she woke up he’d be in her bed. So then I made the Big Footed Bunny for my older “bunny-crazed” daughter. I made them both out of chunky yarn so they’d be nice and big. They totally loved it, and have loved them all year long. Now they are asking me, “Mom, what are you making us this year???” So, a tradition was born.
P.S. My younger daugher is getting a green Kat the Kitchen monster by Rebecca Danger and my older one is getting a bunny (yes, again. That’s all she wants.) by Debbie Bliss. Both will have sweaters.
Our tradition (not one we chose) is to be snowed in on Christmas! It keeps happening and it’s so fun to have a cancelled-plan day just for us.
My grandmother taught us some Polish traditions, but my favorite is when the family gets together before Christmas to make pierogi. It used to be my siblings and cousins that got together, but now that we have our own families, it’s my kids and their cousins. My house reeks of onions for days after, but I love it.
We open one present each on Christmas eve to honor my Father’s German heritage and the remaining presents on Christmas morning to honor my Mother’s Irish heritage.
I have been so busy with christmas knitting that I have not even been on ravelry that much and since I need to ship my presents that means I have to have them done soon… yeah I am in panic mode :/
Anyways for Christmas traditions my husband and I do not do anything but when I go to visit my cousins when we are in Texas we reenact all the nativity scene and we sing carols it is fun
We always decorate the tree on Christmas eve, while watching black and white movies.
Our family Hanukah tradition was always (in addition to lighting the ceremonial candles) lighting a fire in the fire place, playing my parents’ recording of Pachelbel’s Canon in D, and opening presents by the fire. It was great!
My favourite part of Christmas is playing board games with my family on Christmas Eve. We’ll have cheese and wine and just enjoy spending time together. It’s all so calm and quiet on Christmas Eve.
We would go to Mass (this started because I had to work every other Christmas), come home and make sandwiches and then, because it was always so hard for the kids to wait until Christmas Day, we would let them open ONE present that they picked and also any presents from friends, etc. Then we would jsut hope and pray that they would fall asleep quickly enough for us to get the rest of the presents out and the stockings filled!
My favorite tradition is flying home every Christmas Eve day. People are so much friendlier traveling on this day, and it’s so great to see my dad waiting for me in baggage claim every year.
i love to make really good truffles and give them away. yum.
We pick one gift for each other to open on christmas eve, the rest are saved for the morning.
We get to open one present Christmas eve. Christmas day after opening all the gifts and gathering up all the trash we go out for breakfast then a movie.