The tree has been packed away and the festivities are concluded. All the gifts have officially been finished and delivered, so here is a brief round up of the 2019 handmade gifts.

This season was not my most prolific for gifts, but perhaps this holiday season was the one that the most handmade treats stayed with me. Call it greedy if you like, but I realized that over the years I have made gifts of some of my favorite projects. As a result of this realzation I kept all my tiny knit stars and more than a handful of tiny mittens stayed for our family tree.

Emaleigh was the recipient of this tiny mouse blanket as well as the photographed in matching mouse sized pillow. Some of you may recognize Summer, our favorite medium sized mouse from Maileg. She is sleeping cozy now, for sure!

Jane and Emaleigh both received hand knit hats made fromA Chick That Knitz hand dyed yarns. They are both topped with Lovafur animal free pompoms- and were instant favorites.

The peppermint garland is a hold over from days gone by decorating the cabin back at Camp Powhatan.  We had and still do have a 100% hand made decorated tree.  This year I made another 6 feet of this felt peppermint garland.  I have to say, it is labor intensive but it is one of my all time favorite decorations.  I think I need to make one more 6 foot section and then it will be JUST RIGHT.

The last three handmade gifts are photographed together.  First is a linen stitch scarf that was cast on some time in the spring of 2016 with the intention that it would be my mothers birthday gift in September of that year.  I picked back up and happily finished it this year.  She claims I gave it to her in 2016 as a gift and them took it back to finish… but I really just don’t EVEN remember that part of the story.

The two hats were gifts for my little nieces.  They live in upstate New York where there winters are beyond cold.  I made these hats out of Araucania Tierra Del Fuego, a bulky semi felted 100% wool.  They are nice and thick.  They should keep small heads warm for the rest of the winter or until they become playground sacrifices.

All in all I think it was a decent handmade Christmas… with the exception of the sweater that my darling husband is still waiting for.  I think that one can be saved for another story at another time. In the mean time, check out little Poppi soaking up the warmth of the fire after Christmas on her new rug.