Goodbye to 2012 and all that...

I didn't really feel the Xmas spirit as much as usual this year. My Christmas mostly looked like this:

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I made more effort for New Year's, resulting in this:

But I did get up to some festive sewing and knitting.Here's a sneak preview of some partially finished sleeves which will eventually become a jumper for Mr. Needles:

Flaming sleeves!

The colour work got me completely tangled up, as you can see on the reverse:

Back view

And here's a sneak preview of my Christmas dress, the details of which will be in a post to follow:

New dress accessorised with essential wonky party hat!

That's enough for now - I'm off to finish off the last of the mulled wine!