on the needles

It's been hard finding time for knitting the past couple weeks. Parties, family visiting from out of town and other Christmas crafts have been pulling me in different directions. But it's just hitting me that Christmas is just a couple weeks away and I have lots of little gifts I wanted to knit. I did manage to start this cozy Tuesday Night Cowl for my mom (I don't know why it's called that, anyone know?) pictured above and a sweet little pink and white cupcake. My sister, who is visiting for a few weeks, works in a tea shop in England and wanted to learn to knit cupcakes for the window display. I was playing around with it and making up my own pattern to see if I could come up with something easier for her than all the dpn patterns out there. I also whipped out some more acorns and a cute little red and white toadstool (not pictured) to go with the forest critters.

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