My friend, Karen, gave me a little cross stitch kit to make an ornament for our tree for Christmas. I decided to abandon my funky chicken cross stitch and do the kit instead this week. I wanted to get it done before we take the tree down and put the ornaments away. My father in law drove a little red truck and my daughter called him the Red Truck Grandpa when she was little so red trucks have a special significance in our family.
The ornament in the top right of the picture above was made for me by my friend Pat a few Christmases ago.
Here is the red truck in various stages of completion...
I also picked up one of the books I received for Christmas and read it this week, instead of the book I had already started. (I will get back to it now!). This was a gift from my daughter. It was a great Christmas holiday read.
We did not have very good weather for being outside this past week but the sun finally came out and the wind died down yesterday so we took Finn for a walk in the snow at a local conservation area. He loved it and was quite worn out last night.
Here he is, midway through shaking all the snow off his face.
My daughter brought home a couple of crochet projects including her book blanket. She read 117 books in 2025 and made a granny square for each book. The gray granny squares will go in between each month's blocks. There are 13 gray squares and 117 colourful squares for a total of 130 squares. They will be set 10x13 with crocheted sashing in white and a few borders around the entire blanket.
The gray square marks the start of the year. The squares are in order of the books she read. She found an online tutorial about joining granny squares together that she used for the white part.
She has been working on her crochet along as well. My daughter and I both like to have several projects underway at the same time...it gives us a choice of what to work on when the mood hits.
I will link up with Kathy and the Slow Stitchers on Sunday as well as Frederique and her followers tomorrow. Happy New Year everyone! I am looking forward to finishing some projects this year and starting a few new ones as well.
