I wasn’t planning on going nuts for Christmas. I wasn’t planning on knitting many gifts, or putting up many decorations. But I was out and about, and the Christmas music was on the radio, and I went into Michael’s craft to look for some yarn…. and I got zapped by Christmas spirit.
I picked up a fake evergreen branch, and some jingle bells, and went home to use some leftover yarn to make a door decoration. (I saw the stars and ornaments on kfklever knits in this post, and that’s what got my wheels turning of using the ornaments for a door decoration.)
I fiddled with the patterns I saw on Ravelry for the ornaments: the star is Stjärna, but starting with 65-something stitches and on round 5, and crochet-chained the red lines on afterward. The ball is a generic ball, but I used a color work pattern from Melissa Leapman’s Mastering Color Knitting. The pointy ball was inspired by Fancy Balls, but I adjusted for my worsted weight yarn and gauge, and made the increases/decreases more dramatic. (The color work is also from Mastering Color Knitting.)
And I was super happy to do some stranded knitting. 🙂 I’ve definitely been on the color work kick.
(And in case you were curious, when I look through the door’s peephole, I can see the yarn the supports the middle ornament, but it isn’t so bad that it blocks the view. 🙂 )
This might be the last post I get to before Christmas, so I want to take the chance to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! (Or for those who don’t celebrate, enjoy the day off work if you get it!)
your ornament with the bell is so cute!
Thanks! and thanks for the inspiration!
my pleasure!!
For a quick ‘last minute’ decoration this is amazing. I love it. Very, very festive and different.
Oh wow, I really love this! I pinned the photo so I can totally copy you next year. 🙂
YAY, you entered, thank you!!! LOVE your decorations, so very pretty xxx
Yes, I finally had a project ready in time (with your extension of course!) and remembered to enter! Thanks!
So happy you did!
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