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Matching crocheted pinafores for a waldorf baby and her little momma

Feverishly working on Christmas presents, night and day!  Right now my list is so big that every little mistake I make seems to make my list bigger : (  I am taking it in stride because in the end they will love and remember whatever I made them and my need for perfection will be for not.

I have been working on anothe gift which is part of the Knit along over at Frontier Dreams but I am having such a hard time with my terrible knitting skills that I could not bear to take a picture : (  To see what it should look like visit the most amazing Nicole.

Please allow me to apologize for my pictures today.  Truth is I forgot to take the pictures during the day and the lighting in my house is terrible (did I ever tell you to never take pictures at night, they come out sucky).
On my list for Ronnie and Livie are a pair of new Waldorf babies and I thought I would make some matching crocheted dresses for Livie and her new baby (in all the spare time I have right?).  I really like the way it is coming out though I writing and rewriting the pattern which means ripping and ripping out my stitches but in the end I will have hopefully a pair of dresses that my babies love and a pattern to make more in the future.  I am thinking it would be cuter to make the top of the pinafore crocheted and then add fabric as the body of the dress starting under the arm pits, what do you think?
Yarning along with Ginny again this week. I am reading Little House Christmas, which is one of our favorite reads during advent and Christmas.  

I am sneaking in one last picture down here because the lighting is so supermarketish in the pic but it does show the top of the dress better, so sorry!



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Martinmas

Happy Martinmas to everyone!  We did not have time to make any paper mache lanterns with so much going on around here but we did decorate our walking lantern with some leaves cut from water color painted tissue.  We also had some hot cinnamon apple cider and sugared croissants (I left them in the oven two minutes too long and the sugar burned a little).  They tasted amazing though you can’t really tell from the picture.  The kids asked if they were getting a little treat bag this year (usually a little fabric bag with tangerines and nuts or sweets)  so I promised them it would come this weekend.

Have you ever celebrated the Feast of Saint Martin?  In case you do not know the story of Martinmas.

St. Martin of Tours was born in Hungary and grew up the son of a Roman military officer in Pavia, Italy. He joined the Roman army and was sent to Amiens, where, on horseback, he met a starving man begging alms at the city gates. Moved by deep compassion, he tore his red, woolen his cloak in two with his sword and gave half to the beggar. The next night, he had a dream in which he saw Jesus wearing the half of the cloak he’d given away, surrounded by angels. In the dream, Our Lord asked him to look at it and to see if he recognized it. He did, of course, and realized that he must convert and devote his life to Christ.  St. Martin’s remaining piece of cloak became a very revered relic. In fact, the building where his cloak — “cappa” in Latin — was preserved was known as the “cappella,” the root of our words “chapel” and “chaplain.”

the leaves on the lantern where made by the girls.  They painted some white tissue with some water color paints in orange, burnt umber and yellow shades.  Once the tissue was dry, they traced leaves onto it and cut them out.  Then they applied watered down glue to the leaves and smoothed them onto our lantern glass.

A nice warm Saint Martin Sugared Croissant with a hot cup of cinnamon apple cider to warm us up from the inside out on such a chilly night.

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