Can We Start Advent Now?

Those of you who are still capable of knitting may be beginning your Christmas gifts.

This might work for a present:

Give Barbie a handknit.  I do love a dramatic cowl.  The more I look at this, though, I think it might be the earrings stealing the show.

I regret not fully appreciating the Barbie clothes my mother knit and sewed for me.  Store-boughts were SO expensive (relatively), and she had a never-ending supply of scrap fabric and leftover yarn.  Not too long ago, I came across a dress and coat set made of boucle'.  The dress is a brown/light blue/white tweed, and the coat is solid brown.  I seem to remember a tie belt for the coat, but it got lost somewhere over all these years.

No big surprise here: my Twinnie also favors the chocolate Tootsie Pops.  Good thing there are miles between us --- fighting over our favorite might get ugly.

This photo makes me so, so happy. 💅 Our girl is serious about what she's doing.  And look at her fingernails --- she is experienced.