The 12 Knits of Christmas:

 

This is your weekly check-in: how are you doing?  Keeping on schedule?  There are so many of you participating in the weekly specials, which is fabulous!  And it means you're saving yourselves a lot of grief throughout the months to come.  For those of you who haven't started, don't worry.  You've got plenty of time to create some very meaningful gifts.  (I'm a true procrastinator at heart, so I'm typically in the same boat with those of you who haven't even thought about Christmas yet!) 

 

Many, MANY of you have emailed me to let me know that you (or your husband--whoops!) have accidentally deleted your emails from weeks past.  As of this writing, there are over 600 people that are on this email list, making it exceedingly difficult to resend individual email newsletters.  To make things easier, I've uploaded photos AND patterns to a photo album on my personal knitblog, The Land of Wool and Honey.  You can view the album and its contents by going here.  (You can bookmark this site, too, so you'll always have the address handy.)  

 

Another tip for those of you who've got archaic printers like mine, or eyes that have a hard time seeing small print:  instead of printing this email as you see it, try copying and pasting the text into a Microsoft Word document.  That way, you can enlarge the font and change the color as you see fit.  Life made easier. 

 

If you've done this before, scroll down to reveal the pattern and yarn of the week.  If you're new to the program, here's the deal:  Every Thursday afternoon (or into the evening!), you'll receive a FREE pattern--either an Inish Knits original creation or from another clever online crafter--that we've deemed "do-able" within the course of a week.  These patterns are super simple, and there's a reason.  You've got kids.  Sports.  Dogs.  You're working 40-plus hours a week.  We want you to feel like you can actually get something done during these crazy weeks leading up to the holidays.  (Sorry--there's nothing we can do about the 17 holiday parties you've got on the list!)      

 

And that's not all.  The yarn that's featured in each week's project is available at 20% OFF for the entire week*, so the projects are as easy on your wallet as they are on your brain.  With 12 full weeks ahead of us, if you try your best to keep up, you'll have a nice collection of gifts come December 25th. 

 

Feel free, too, to pick and choose patterns that you like--you may find you like some more than others.  Or, stick with one pattern and knit 12 of those.  No rules here--just fun.  It's yarn, remember?

 

 

I-Cord.  Could there be anything easier?  How about an I-cord knit from self-striping yarn?  Tie three of them together, and you've got a funky accessory to wear to your next holiday party.

 

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