I suddenly got right back into makingness.  It’s mainly the fault of people who felt Mr Gnome needed a Mrs Gnome.  I was worried he would get lonely if I wasn’t speedy, so….:

Meet Mrs Gnome.

Then I thought they needed a gnome home, so I made one of those too (well, decorated the twig wreath):

It’s early days, but they do seem quite happy:

Mrs Gnome was made using the same pattern that clever Miss Neriss made for Mr Gnome.  You can find it here.

I also decided to make a penguin for Small Boy as he seems to rather like them.  I didn’t have a pattern, which resulted in much grumpiness in trying to get matching feet and some sort of Christmas miracle when the wings matched:

He seems like quite a happy penguin.

Next up…more mince pies, I think :o)