I made LOTS of holiday gifts this year! I’d love to say it was because I was full of cheer and good will and whatnot… but honestly, a large motivation was the need to feel I was doing SOMETHING productive while laying around home sick and recovering from surgery. So, I made a huge “gift list” and made something for everyone on it – as well as a few items I intend to gift or donate to charity.
Most of my gifts were “kitchen sets” consisting of a potholder and a tawashi (a cotton puff great for washing dishes, cleaning, etc.)
"Skull" set for my niece and her husband (who loves skulls and served in the military)
Hat and mitts for my sister (other sister gets the cowl and fingerless mitts I posted previously)
Hat - done as pattern test for designer, to be donated to charity
Butter Cream kitchen set
Cook Different kitchen set - for an Apple fan
Turtle Soup kitchen set
Stir Me Up kitchen set
Bearded Hat - for my dad, who has a great sense of humor - and will keep his head and face warm
Piggy potholder and tawashi
Dinnertime kitty/fishy potholder
Garden Patch kitchen set
Cowboy cookout potholder (reverse is solid blue with jeans pocket design)
Another Dinnertime! kitty/fishy potholder
Green Bay Packers kitchen set
A wine-colored Swiffer cover and tawashi
another Packers potholder set
Cardinals kitchen set
Snowflake hat
Scrappy cone hat
Baby bird hat
Four more hats
Pine green leaves hat
Quick little headband for myself
Hooty owl hat
Another baby bird hat
Another hooty owl hat
Patchwork apple potholder
Smiley face kitchen set
Bluebird kitchen set
Bed Bugs baby blankie
Holly-day snowman hat - test for pattern designer
I also did a little more dying – and took some solid lilac cotton and turned it into a purple/green multi-colored yarn. I made a tawashi out of some of it – haven’t decided what to do with the rest. (Once again, I did manage to make a tangled mess of it.)
Hand-dyed yarn (solid is yarn used to dye, multi-colored is result)
Yarn after dying and before detangling and hanking
... and it crochets up like this tawashi
Life of the Lintee Bean 
They are super cute!!! Hey! Where’s mine? 😉
Cute stuff Lynette! I really like the bugs baby blanket!
Me too! Do you know where I could get the pattern for the bugs baby blanket?
Thanks ladies! Pam, I based the bugs blanket on “Little Critters” by Peggy McGee from Herrschners Juvenile afghans 2010