Towel City!!!! I made 16 towel toppers this year for gifts - the holiday towels are getting more and more difficult to find - but this year I managed to find them for the $1 price (each) at The Christmas Tree Shops. Walmart had jumped to $3 a piece IF they had any! I was unwilling to pay that - I appreciate frugality in crafting from the heart...
Each towel had a Christmas theme - holly - snowmen - ornamaments and St Nick. The yarn was the same WW that I used in the Poinsettia Doilies in this month's blog postings. Christmas colors with sparkle thread running thru it. They took about a half hour each to make and were fun and fast take-along projects.
I have friends with large families that love and expect these and appreciate them every year when last years are threadbare from use! I also do NOT cut the towels in half the way some do - I leave them folded in half and begin the foundation row of crochet on the fold - once the towel is done you then have a "beefy" and thick hand towel that even the man in the family will appreciate when looking to dry off his hands.
This years buttons of red hearts and stars - were purchased early last spring when I found them on clearance at a local Walmart. I like to find fun and festive buttons either in clearance bins during the year or with the use of a coupon I have even got the Mary Engelbright buttons for pennies on the dollar! It's a fun little ongoing scavenger hunt when I visit craft stores and sections during the year to look for them! I already found next years at a random after-Christmas sale - they are cute poinsettias and snowflakes! My towels I spotted at a local Dollar Tree that got them in late in December long after mine were done...so next years materials are already tucked safely away in a crafting bin for the making next Fall in time for Christmas!
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