Unlike the stocking stuffer suggestions from most jewelry stores, I seize upon useful, little, homemade items that help fill the stockings right to the brim. (Yes... we still fill Christmas stockings for our kids, kids-in-law, and their kids. It's too much fun to give it up.)
This year, I stumbled upon tawashi. I am so excited! It fills every requirement:
1) practical
2) compact
3) handmade
4) sooo cute!
However, when I started my quest for patterns, I discovered this...
...the best patterns are in Japanese! Thank goodness for Al Gore... the "World Wide Web" provided a way to interpret this gibberish without enrolling in a crash course in Japanese.
What? You don't know what tawashi is? You think I'm going to spill the beans when my recipients just might read this? Ha!
You'll have to search on your own... and my girls are not allowed to look. It doesn't matter how old you are... stockings should be full of surprises!
Give me understanding,and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. Psalm 119:34
1 comment:
My mother/law crochets, I just added tawahi to my wish list! They'll love them!! c. nottingham
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