Since our knitting group meets on the 3rd Thursday of the month, we decided to have our Christmas party back in November, because none of us would make the December meeting so close to Christmas. We took scraps of Christmas coloured yarns and patterns for Christmas ornaments. Each of us started knitting an ornament, but being busy with food and wine, none of us finished.
We had a little lottery for who was going to gift their ornament to who and said we’d drop them off at each others houses. However, on the way out we decided it would be good to sit in the hotel lounge by the Christmas tree and knit together in December, so we made a date for yesterday evening.
We drank mulled wine and knitted and chatted…
Just before we left, we swapped ornaments…
I was honoured to receive two Christmas trees from the member of our group who is only just learning to knit.
I felt a little guilty as these are her first two FOs, but she insisted.
Dartmoor Creative - Bekki Hill 
Such a nice idea. I bought a crochet bauble for my xmas tree from a craft fair on Sunday. Just need to put the tree up now! X
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Lovely. Yep, better get that tree up 🙂 xx
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How very nice! And what a treat to get her first FOs! I am sure she will have plenty more.
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I did feel guilty as i thought it would be nice for her to keep, but when we were drawing lots for who got whose, she was very down on herself that hers was the short straw. So I didn’t want to get too insistent and make her think I didn’t want it.
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That is tough, isn’t it? But I bet you gave her all kinds of praise for how pretty they are, and she left feeling good about herself. And maybe she will be inspired to keep going.
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Sh’e been coming a while knitting something else and I know she enjoys the evenings – so hopefully she will keep going.
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It is nice when there is a group to knit with and have fun with. 🙂
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Sure is 🙂
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Lovely 🙂
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It was a very nice thing to take part in 🙂
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What a lovely, Christmassy thing to do 🎄🎄🎄🎄
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Yes, I certainly enjoyed it 🙂
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Now those trees are special as someone’s first pieces. Ones to treasure.
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Certainly are. As I said above, did feel rather guilty taking them.
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Ah, looks like the process was enjoyed even more than the resulting swap! Honoured indeed, to be the beneficiary of someone’s very first knitted projects. It will be interesting to see how her skills develop and lovely to be able to look back at her early attempts.
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She had good tension from the start, but a tendency to gain stitches – which I find a lot of beginners do – so I suspect she’ll be turning out some spectacular stuff in the future.
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