Took a break from Christmas knitting the other day and attempted a couple of Christmas decorations with dubious results.
I made a star of which we won’t speak of again and a Christmas tree based on this pattern.
I’m not very happy with the tree though crocheting a gold border around it gave it some stability and form. Its original finish made it look like an Ent, as @RebeccaAJones suggested! She also had some fantastic ideas for other knitted ‘Lord of the Rings’ related Christmas decorations, such as Christmas Treebeard, “Merry” Christmas, SamWISE MAN Gamgee, GandELF which I’m sure already exists! It’s also curious timing as I am currently watching the first LotR film for the umpteenth time.
Best tweet of the day, however, came from @DjDATZ resurrecting an old Xzibit meme: I heard you like trees, so I put a tree in your tree so you can tree while you tree!
With regards to the Christmas knitting I appear to be doing better than I thought despite having just unravelled about 3000 stitches due to making something too long. I realised the mistake a while back, but put off unravelling it until now. My to-do list is still long, but no longer seems impossible. Plus I’m sure I’ll finish lots over the next days as each LotR film is about four hours long.
