Of craft and Christmas

So it's gone all a little crafty around here again, but, for my latest project I completely copied these from Sandra Juto, because I thought they were so great. (And interestingly, she has been fighting a copycat war, so out of curiosity I watched a video on fashion's free culture from the comments on that post, and it would seem that you can copyright a trademark, but not a design, and that this is seen as fostering innovation - the video is really quite interesting and talks about facebook and software etc as well ...) I'm not rapt in this colour, and Sandra Juto's muted tones are more beautiful, but I made a scarf for my sister out of this wool, which of course you will know if you pay close and long-standing attention to crochet productions on this blog (as I am sure you all do!), and thought I'd have a go at wrist warmers with the same wool. So, here is a present for my sister that essentially cost me nothing.

Also, I never really get decked out for Christmas here in Sydney, because I am never in Sydney for Christmas Day, but I decided to splurge on these, not particularly having Christmas in mind, but it turns out they are really quite Christmasy (Pax is latin for Peace, and it's a little monastic perhaps, but I like it).