The amigurumi snake I made for my nephew for Christmas
I’m handcrafting a lot of my Christmas presents this year, as I always do. This year my craft of choice is crochet. I have a scarf and a bath set completed, and the camouflage snake of course. My nephew Corey is 9, loves animals and loves camouflage – so when I saw this pattern I immediately thought of him. It was incredibly simple to make – outside of a few increases and decreases to shape the head and tail, it’s essentially just a long tube. I had the best time making this though – I giggled through most of it because the thing is so damn cute. My niece is getting a pink panda bear – hopefully that will be just as much fun to make!
So I have seven or eight gifts left to make. I’m starting to wonder if I’m going to have enough time to finish them all. I may just have bitten off more than I can chew, especially since it’s only been about a week since I decided what I was going to make everyone.
I seem to do this to myself every year. I don’t start my crafty projects until November, and then I run out of time to finish them. I remember one Christmas eve staying up until well past 1am finishing presents. I need to learn to start my planning in late summer. Or maybe spring.
I don’t think I’ll ever not do it, though. It started as a money-saving scheme, one Christmas I was flat broke and just dug out my craft supplies and everyone had a gift for Christmas. I love doing it. I love the giving part of Christmas more than anything else, and spending so much time on the gifts that I give just extends that Christmassy feeling. I get to feel like I’m giving for the months leading up to Christmas instead of just weeks.
