We're hitting the Handknit Holiday Decor ground running this December with a handknit paper chains. Add some colour to your holiday decor with handknit paper chain bunting Paper chains seem to have made an appearance as holiday decor around the mid-19th Century in England. The idea likely snuck over from Germany in the Victorian era where a lot of our Australian holiday traditions have filtered down from. During more austere times ( think Great Depression and war rationing )
Newly knitted, soft and squishy or rough and scratchy for those stubborn bits of leftover lunch Freshly laundered, new and shiny or old and holey. Plain, simple and forever practical or full of elaborate patterns and fancy scalloped edges. Dishes might be boring but that doesn't mean your dish cloths have to be! Some of my plain and simple washcloths knitted in lovely Australian Cotton I do love a good dishie (wash cloth, dish cloth or if you are my Nan reincarnated a "flann
