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… You’re going to have wait until tomorrow.  Nice try, though.

I thought that on this, my first Christmas Eve blog post, I’ll show my favourite handmade Christmas gift from previous years.

I made this rose blanket for my mom a couple of years ago.

Here is one octagon:

And the full blanket:

My mom is a member of Beta Sigma Phi, and their flower is the yellow rose. This blanket seemed appropriate. It lives on her couch (a very comfortable couch to which I seem to be highly allergic. It figures!).

Making this particular blanket was a challenge because I started working on while living with my parents. Thank you, mom, for having more of a life than I!