Stars

August in The Knitter’s Almanac is devoted to Christmas “fiddle faddle”, and is probably the most enjoyably written chapter. It’s like the original knitting blog, pre-internet. Aside from my general affection for this chapter and the endearing story of two old people tooling around in the wilderness in a canoe, I was not won over by the patterns. My tree turned out bloated and floppy (I won’t even burden you with a picture of it), and I didn’t even try the angel as it looked really too old-fashioned for my tastes. The stars, however, won me over.

I made a bevy of them, and sold them at the Christmas market at Treklang. They took about 15 minutes to make, took up very little yarn, and look quite charming two-toned.

“Christmas cactus” ha! I’m so funny.

It’s almost like a weird cactus yarmulke.

…

Almost.

Remember September!