Category: Crafts

Look at the lovely shrunken elf hats and heads!

The girls are off from school. We are going to see Star Wars tomorrow. Hubster and I are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our first date. Twenty-five years ago, we went out to watch “Home Alone.” Don’t laugh. It was the only thing playing in our small college town at the time.

I finally, FINALLY, got started on the smaller Krampus Raven ornament. 

Hurray! I made another hexagon!

I made the last Krampus Raven using Vanna’s Choice yarn. This time I’m using Vanna’s Glamour yarn, which is a much finer yarn. I expect thisraven will be a quarter of the size of the first one. I’m very glad that I’m able to use the same colors again – black, burgandy, and grey. But this time around, the raven will be a bit sparkley!

As for what happened on Day 12 on the challenge…

Day 12 was eaten up by preparations for our Girl Scout troop meeting. The troop meets at my house, and the girls spent all day Sunday cooking a HUGE meal for their parents. Yes, I turned seven girls loose in my kitchen and let them use every pot, pan, and dish in the house to cook a meal. The girls did clean up after themselves, and the volunteers did quite a bit of cleaning as well (for which I am very, VERY, grateful). However, before I could have the troop over at my house to cook, I had to clean the place up and get groceries for the dishes the girls were cooking. And then I had a party to go to on top of all that. So Saturday ended up being a very busy day. I did do some Krampus crafting though. I added a small crocheted loop to the shrunken elf head I made so it could be hung from a tree. And then I wrapped it up and took it with me to the party, where Hubster and I played “Dirty Santa” with all the other black belts and instructors from our dojo. The proud owner of the shrunken elf head ended up being the wife of our head instructor. She was so thrilled with her gift that she put it on her tree… upstairs. I think that was probably the best place to put it. Might scare the grand kids if they came over for the holidays.

Hopefully tomorrow I will get a lot more done on this raven. And I am playing around a bit with the graphic I posted yesterday. I think it would make an excellent greeting card or t-shirt. I’ll post the final version when I’ve got it done!

I finished the cowl today, but I haven’t been able to take a decent photo of it yet, so I’m sharing this tonight instead. 

How’s this for a Krampus ornament?!

Hubster and I are going to a party tomorrow, and we were told to bring a gift that cost no more than $5 for a “fun holiday game.” Yeah, right. I hate Secret Santa. Unless, of course, I’m giving the gift of shriveled up body parts }:D

This took me about 2 hours to make, while watching TV. The hat measures longer than my hand from finger tips to wrist. I’m considering crocheting up a couple of elfie ears to stick on it, if I have time. We’ll see. This actually looks pretty good by itself, though. Just nees a hook to hang it from the tree 😀

I’m sure this will be very popular at Secret Santa tomorrow night.

I meant to post this last night, but I went to bed instead. Imagine that, a normal bedtime…

“It’s HUGE! And it’s STILL NOT DONE!”

I have to tear out two rows because I’m off a stitch, but there’s only 10 rows left to stitch, so it should be done by tonight. THEN I can get back to work on ornaments, which was really what I wanted to focus on this holiday season anyway!

But I gotta admit, the purple and black stripes on this cowl? Totally worth the effort!