The Daily Hailey

In case you missed it, I’ve been making a lot of Christmas gifts this year. I’ve crocheted since I was about 12, so that’s been my main source of homemade gifts over the years. I’ve gone through stages where I felt kind of creatively stunted, but I’ve always rallied and just learned more about crocheting. I can safely say I’m actually pretty good at that now. 

This year, I wanted to try something new. I wanted to try knitting. But I was nervous, for a handful of reasons. What if my project gets bumped and just slips off the needles? Is it all just over then?? What if I drop a stitch?? I have no idea how to get that stitch back! I assume that would come with time and learning, but I felt like knitting left WAY more room for error than crocheting did. 

So. I cheated. And I did loom knitting instead. I’ll admit that loom knitting is quite a bit more limiting, but I’m honestly SO happy with how my projects and gifts turned out this year! So this post is mostly for my records, to see all I managed to put together for Christmas this year. I feel accomplished, which is GOOD, because my body is screaming from all the bad posture and repetitive movements and all that good stuff. If I wasn’t so happy with how every project had turned out, I’d be a lot more upset about my pain. I can confidently say, it is SO worth it!! 

First, I’m going to explain my scarves to you. They’re double thick infinity scarves. As in, if they weren’t attached at the end, they’d be tubes. They’re ridiculously warm. This is actually the first one I ever made and planned to give as a gift, but never found the right person for. 

So here are the scarves I gifted out this year!

First one was supposed to be trees, but it looks more like feathers. Still nice though, I think. Its for Laela’s teacher. 

Second one is a purple ombré type thing with some grey and navy in there. Its for my doctor. I had a whole other one going for her but then it got super messed up right at the end and I couldn’t save it :/ So this one will do!

Third was is probably the coolest one I made. Coral and charcoal. For Jerilee. 

Fourth one is a textured yarn called “painted desert.” My mom chose it for herself 🙂 Its a heavier scarf but SO warm and soft. 

Fifth one is Rider green with white snowflakes. For Dekker’s teacher who is a diehard Riders fan. 

Sixth one is very “Christmas sweatery,” which is the perfect fit for our Christmas sweater loving neighbour, Rae. 

The last one is the same kind of textured yard, but the shade “Nouveau.” Cher chose this one for herself too. She loves a good neutral brown tone. 

Now for mitts! Who knew you could do mitts on a loom!

I feel it’s important to say, I made another pair not featured here for Brady. They weren’t so much a gift as a trial pair that he ended up loving. 

First pair is for my sister, a lover of pink. 

Second pair is for my sister in law, in a yarn called “Hudsons Bay.” 

Third pair is actually the pair I made for the homemade gift exchange I organized this season! My person is something of a lipstick addict, so I hope they’re a good fit!

Fourth pair is for my neighbour, Tom, who seems to always been outside, clearing his driveway. Unfortunately, I miscounted rows, and they’re not perfect :/ But, I didn’t have the strength left in my hands to remake one.

Lastly, here are the sets I made for the kids! Toques and a double thick neck warmer, made like the scarves. 

Wavy has sheep with hearts, and the neck warmer is just little dots. 

Solly has trees and moons. 

Rowan has the foxes, because he LOVES foxes. That set felt the most labour intensive. 

Laela loves her cupcake toque from last year, so I’m hoping this one goes over just as well!

And Dekker got triangles, because he likes something cool and different, and didn’t express any particular object or animal on his. I know the main colour blue is different, because I found nicer yarn partway through the project, but I don’t think Dekker will mind. He is a BIG encourager that mistakes are important to make 🙂 

I guess lastly lastly is the gift tags I made. 

I always want to make little snowflake gift tags and never get to it. So this season, I had a bit of a “Whatever, I’m already broken” attitude, and made them. I’m really happy with how they turned out 🙂 Even if they get pitched with the wrapping paper, I’m happy I made them. 

Thats it, folks!! Now just root for me, that I can’t pick up real knitting this coming year! Thats the goal of 2020! One of them, anyway… Resolution post to come!