Merry Christmas!

Wishing all my blog friends a very Merry Christmas.  Enjoy the season and hopefully get a bit of rest in between all the cooking and entertaining!

Christmas Mince Pies!

They turned out wonderfully and are delicious as well!  About to have one now with a nice hot cup of coffee!

The dough yielded about 31 pies!

Yummy!  Sweet and buttery!  

Celtic Solstice Part IV and Christmas Baking!

I am happy to report that CS IV goes together so nice and easily!  I even got my seams spinning (I've never done that before).    I have a helper who is impeding the progress!  So I have to wait for him to relocate himself before I carry on!
The darling daughter and I did some baking a couple of days ago.  Snickerdoodles - so Christmassy!  The wonderful smell of baking cinnamon is quiet divine.  I will be doing more baking really soon.  Christmas Mince Pies is next on the menu - a very British thing, so of course we used to make them in South Africa.  My Mom-in-law used to make the best mince pies ever.  If mine turn out half as well as hers, they will be delicious.

I have absolutely no idea why it is snowing on my picture!  Pooters and I are not friends so I really don't know how to fix it.  Anyhoo, my seams are spinning nicely!

Here is my first batch of the four patches!

Here is my little helper.  He is fast asleep on my strips now.

Waiting for the cookies!

Ah, Snickerdoodle Cookies!

Pinwheels for Celtic Solstice

I had a wonderful stitchy day yesterday.  I made progress on Celtic Solstice.  I have 40 Part II's done, and 160 Part III Half square triangles done.  I made up four pinwheel blocks last night before shutting down for the night.

I placed four onto a design board and them took them to the machine to stitch.  I have to keep my wits about me when doing pinwheels.  It is easy to flip those puppies the wrong way.  

Celtic Solstice Part Three Started!

I started with Celtic Solstice Part 3 yesterday!  Part 3 works up faster than part two - thankfully!  I am still working on Part 2!  There is progress which is the main thing right?  Hopefully I will get Part 2 and 3 done by Friday!  However my two sons come home tomorrow for winter furlough!  Sewing time will diminish a bit!  Lots of cooking to do you know!

I have 83 of the half square triangles done.

Got 27 of these completed!  Still a ways to go!

These are the two handsome gentlemen who I will be cooking for, starting tomorrow!

Two more Finishes!

A friend is having a baby on Monday!  I have been crocheting away furiously to get this blanket done in time.  I am so happy to have achieved that goal.  I have also finished another scarf for a gift.  Boy,  I am cranking these projects out at the moment.

All folded and done.

I started with the blue and decreased the blue stripe by two rows while increasing the white stripe by two rows.  

Here is the heavier on the white side.

Scarf  with snowflake brooch!

A Christmas Gift

I have been knitting a few Christmas scarves!  This one is for my daughter-in-law!  Ssshh, don't tell her!!!  This fancy yarn makes the knitting go really quickly!  Started it the evening before last and finished it yesterday morning!

Got a pretty snowflake brooch to hold the cross-over together!  Cute hey?