Korkenisse in the Snow

These were the cork elves (“korkenisse”) that never made it to the Christmas market. The children told me that “real” nisser are either red or dark blue, so the light blue ones and the white one couldn’t go to the market. The rainbow one was knit on a special request from C.

This one had a hat that was not cone-shaped, just drawn together at the top (I thought this would be an easier design). Ruby said it was not nisse-like enough, though. So I went for the cone-shaped hat after all.

I had one tiny cork that I made a baby nisse for Ruby.

We were reading Little House In The Big Wood and there is a description of frost patterns on the windows and she says that Jack Frost made them, and imagines him to be a little man with a white suit and white pointy hat. So we named the experimental white nisse (at top here) Jack Frost. Both the kids agreed that nisser can’t be white, though.

Nisser:

a) red b) blue

or option C… rainbow.

It was a champagne cork.