Have you started any 🎄crafts yet, and if so, would you like to share?

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I’m about 1/4 of the way through yet another knitted Nativity Set (started in June) which will as usual be for the Gdcs’ school Christmas raffle - it always seems to go down well.
That’s in between non 🎄projects.

The first time I made one (for Gdcs) I only discovered the pattern in about mid September (courtesy of a MNer) so it was a bit of a rush to get it finished for the beginning of December.

Thank you for the tip about them sliding about @bushtailadventures. Your stockings are beautiful - I love the mix of fabrics.

After consulting some other Christmas aficionados I'm going to do three shorter strings and I've tested the pouches - they're the perfect size for a Celebration or Heroes chocolate.

Marking place

Currently in Germany and although it's the middle of summer. There's so many lovely Christmas decoration shops. Which I may a couple of things from

Also moving into a new house i time for Christmas. And so daydreaming of all the lovely new decorations I can do and how to decorate. Moving in with my boyfriend for the first time who is very much there's a Christmas tree that's all which is needed type person.

Instead of Xmas cards I’m giving these out, some in frames some in hoops. I also bought a snow globe last year that I can put a cross stitch portrait in.

Took me ages to dig it out as it wasn't with the Christmas decorations. It's actually very variable depending on the design. Basically ones with a mainly white design show through the worst. Many white photographs attached so you can see.

Thanks very much! It looks like i'll have to see if there are enough good patterns in the new book that don't show through, or my Santas will look like they have measles or something, depending on what the pattern on the other side is like :)

Not exactly crafts, but all 4 of my Christmas vodkas are underway now. My allotment raspberries are autumn fruiting, so I've only just picked enough to start that one. The others are rhubarb, gooseberry (new one for this year) and rosehip (which has a vaguely medicinal tang to it!).

I quite fancied the knitted nativity as a project, but I couldn't get the oomph to do it in spring ("it's ages until Christmas!"), and now I have multiple friends having babies so I'm going to be knitting cardis instead!

I'm half tempted to knit some just in white, lemon, or aqua and have a stock ready, but that doesn't feel quite the same as knitting especially for a particular baby...

In terms of Christmas crafts, I usually do a small cross stitch but not until November or December. I have five or six now, I should really think about framing them or doing something with them so they can be displayed.

I can’t knit, crochet or sew and hopeless with arts and crafts but I love reading this thread and the pics, so impressive!

Don’t know whether it counts as a craft, but for some time I’ve been saving jars for a mega-batch of Delia’s luscious mincemeat. I shall be making it once we’re into the 2nd half of September and looking forward to making a 🐷of myself on homemade mince pies. Dh will be assisting with even more sheer piggery than even I am capable of. 🙂

I am going to pick blackberries tomorrow for BlackBerry Brandy.
Then Marmalade Gin ( the Goodhousekeeping recipe) and Raspberry gin.

Blackberry brandy started.