Hope you're all enjoying your break from the ordinary!

Hi everyone, I hope you've all had a lovely Christmas (if you celebrate it, that is).

Ours was great, and we're spending Boxing Day playing Wii (Mr Bump), learning chess (Wren, with Mr Blogs) and stuffing our faces (me especially).
Santa was very good to us all this year. ;)

I've been kinda AWOL for the last couple of weeks as we prepared for Christmas. Luckily, though, I had some scheduled posts to keep you all entertained.
- That's why I haven't answered comments for a while, I haven't been snobbing you all.

For January I've got the kids home on school holidays, and I don't expect to get near the computer except to check my email every now and then.

I hope you'll use the time to actually make some amigurumi rather than just drooling over the patterns I've linked to on here. ;)

When I get back, I'll be wanting to know what you've been up to while I've been Captaining this madhouse.

Please, please, please... Send me your pics of your amigurumi creations to keep me sane until February!

Christian Cross

This crochet cross pattern is a more religious piece of Christmas amigurumi than others I've found.

Easy to crochet.

{free pattern here}

Simply Gnome

This little gnome is incredibly simple and could easily be made as a Santa.

Just make his clothing all red, and add a pom pom on top of his hat!

Super easy to crochet.

{pattern here}

Christmas Wreath

Wish I'd found this beautiful wreath pattern sooner in the year, so I could have made one for our door!

Japanese translated into english.

Easy to crochet.

{pattern here}

24/11/11 ~ Link updated.  No pictures though, so it will be quite hard to follow this pattern now.  Because of this, I've changed the level of difficulty to high.

If the above link takes too long to load, try entering the following directly into Google Translate:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080106195943/http://www11.ocn.ne.jp/~yagurun/amizu/ri-su.htm

Little Star

This is the invincibility star from Mario Brothers' games, but it would look great as either a Christmas decoration or a starfish.

Easy to crochet.

{pattern here}

Knit Holly & Berries

Use as a table decoration, hang on your tree or the corner of a picture frame.

Easy to knit.

{pattern here}

Santa's Reindeer

Just use red wool for the nose, and he's Rudolph!

Medium difficulty.

{pattern here}

Santa's Milk & Cookies

Santa always makes such a mess at our house on Christmas Eve.
Milk slopped on the tablecloth, crumbs all over the floor. He's a real grot, that man!

Maybe some amigurumi snacks are the answer?

Easy to crochet.

{download pdf pattern here}

Bear Ornaments

Cute little creatures for your tree.

Make them as Christmassy as you want, or not.

Easy to knit.

{pattern here}