For a granny chic Christmas

One of the things I have been up to this past week is this; a crochet Christmas project.

We actually have another Made Fair Markets at my church next weekend (24th November). It was one of those things. I actually didn’t know about it, neither did others on the team, and it wasn’t in the church calender, but somebody somewhere knew of it, and some ladies from the morning service have been busy making things to sell to raise money for some of our link missionaries. So, we wouldn’t want to stand in the such of such a goodly endeavour and are going to run a market.

Initially I thought, bother, I don’t have much time to make more stuff, but then I decided that if we were going to do markets at the end of November I need Christmas decorations. Preferably something simple and not too time consuming, given that lack of time. And so here it is. The granny star!

Just quietly, I am rather taken with it. Besotted actually. I think it could be my new thing. I don’t care if nobody buys them, because I am going to give them to everyone, everywhere. I’m already thinking one for each of my team at work, one for each of my family, stars adorning presents, stars hanging off trees ...

This one pictured is even made with some “vintage” yarn I bought on ebay a while back. Very 70s yellow and retro.

Then I decided that since these things are all about packaging, and it being Christmas and all, I should include a Bible verse with the stars. So I looked up all the verses around the Christmas story containing the word “star”. None of them stand alone all that well. So then I turned to the Christmas carols. None of the starry Christmas carol fragments work so well either. I didn't want to leave people with a weird, vague "guided by the stars" idea. So I think I am going to go with a slightly altered phrase from O Little Town of Bethlehem. I changed “thy” to “the”, which means it’s no longer referring to Bethlehem (but I'm contemplating putting "thy" back in, to personalise it, maybe), and added "Christ", but I think it works. Something like this, only once I get a new ink cartridge I'll actually print it.

For some reason I'm all enthused right now about little packages containing a crochet star.

(As with a lot of creative efforts, you make something up, then google it and discover tutorials for how to do it all over the internet. I just made this based on a picture I’d flagged once, which is actually now gone. (Note to self – if you really like something on the internet you should print it out, because sometimes things disappear.) Then over here I found a tutorial for something very similar. Don’t tell that nice, creative, generous lady I said so, but I like mine slightly better, because I don’t have that big chain gap on the points, so the points are pointier.)