Martha had these in one of her Christmas issues with evergreen branches and berries frozen into them, but a friend of mine was making these long before Martha ever did, only she used jar lids and garbage can lids with twine or rope loops frozen into them by which to hang them. The ones in the top picture are the first ones we did (The crystal in the foreground is hanging inside the window, btw). The bottom picture is our next batch in progress. Hopefully it will stay cold long enough for them to freeze!
Olympic Knitting Update: After 9 repeats of the lower basket chart, I'm into the edging chart! Just as I was finally getting the hang of the pattern, it'll be done soon. The other evening, we had dinner with Shannon and her fiance while they were in town at her (fabulous!) parents' (fabulous!) house and I saw the FBS that she made for her mom, as well as her Kiri shawl, both made from Socks That Rock yarn (her STR Jaywalkers, too). They were both beautiful and so different than this one I'm making from alpaca. We even watched a tiny bit of bobsledding on T.V. and both worked a bit on our Olympic Knitting projects, hers being a pair of fair isle socks in STR yarn, of course. I can hardly believe it: I got to sit and knit with a real, live knitting blogger! We got to talk yarn as only those who are obsessed do! Fun, fun.
