Memories of Christmas and some Christmas Knitting.

Before it gets lost in the mists of time here are a few photo memories of our Christmas this year. Blogger has done that thing of adding selected photos in reverse order, so with apologies for taking you backwards through the day ....

Cake by Tesco, cake band by me

Our first ever time cooking red cabbage for Christmas dinner (or any other time for that matter). It doesn't look very nice but it was delicious, 

Christmas table. The napkins and place mats are decades old; I bought them from the Webb Ivory catalogue that son no 1 used to bring home every year from school; it was a fundraising thing. I think I've had enough of them now, so after a wash, which they have already had, and an iron, which they are waiting for, they will be despatched to the charity shop and next year we will buy some new Christmas place mats and use up some of the 100s of paper napkins I have on a Christmass-y theme. 

A quite exciting present bought in Prague. This was originally intended for grandson no. 2, but it became obvious when he was here in the summer that it would not be welcomed by him so I repurposed it for the OH who loves it and has attached it to the ceiling of his office. 

The world's most boring Christmas present. However it was on his wish list and he was very pleased with it. 

Someone always has to get a new Christmas jumper

Mozartkugeln from Vienna

Christmas baking, from the box in my advent swap, week 1. No I'm not showing the attempts we made at decoration! Disaster wasn't in it.  

And of course the Christmas socks, already shown on the blog a while back, but here actually on our feet. 

I made two other pairs of socks for Christmas presents. One was for my advent swap and the pattern is one of my go-tos; Hermione's Everyday Socks. It gives a great effect for very little effort.

and the other pair was for my sister. The pattern is Little Paddocks socks and it's lovely. There is a whole series of socks themed around Miss Marple Mysteries by the same designer on Ravelry  and one of my plans for 2023 is to knit them all, and possibly also the ones from her Jane Austen series too. 

Yarn in both cases was from The Knitting Goddess and came from stash (hooray)

And that's it for today, except to wish you a Happy New Year once again! May 2023 be good to us all (almost). Insert your own exceptions - my list starts with the loathly Jacob Rees Mogg.