Wool on Sunday...

My Wool on Sunday post this week is about my new ( and very appropriate for me!) Christmas ornament  that my friend De made me. De was my Secret Santa at the Sunday Stitchers Christmas party last Sunday. 

It just so happens that I was taking random photos of Sandi, who had stepped up for the role of Santa's helper at present unwrapping time...and she was actually carrying my gift at the time.

And here it is and I love it!!

De has wound yarn over a styrofoam ball and made knitting needles from skewers cut to size, with beads glued on the end and then sprayed. Such a thoughtful gift. 

Our Secret Santa gifts this year at SS were an ornament ( which could either be handmade or purchased), and a bag. This is the gorgeous bag that De made for me...

So now a little bit more about our final gathering for 2016...

Setting up the room. As you can see in the photo a lot of the ladies brought along Christmassy themed projects to decorate the room. It gave the room such a lovely 'feel'.

Gifts too of course...this is my 'haul' from the other ladies...noting this doesn't include the Secret Santa gifts!! 

 The Birthday girls...each month those who have celebrated a birthday receive a fat quarter from everyone. Last Sunday we had both November and December birthdays. 

After the birthday parcels were unwrapped, the Secret Santa gifts were put on that small table ready for distribution after lunch.

Mentioning lunch...this year we used some of the money in 'the kitty' to have lunch catered by the local IGA. It was a lovely lunch but I only remembered to  take a photo after we'd filled our plates...

And what is Christmas party lunch without bonbons and paper hats! 😉

And these wonderful friends of mine also have been very generous to the less fortunate in the community. Last month they collected and donated sweets for K4BN's mini Christmas stockings project and again this month, I was given some more lollies. And 2 of the ladies had also made some mini stockings! These, plus some stockings knitted by a friend at Sisters of Stitch, meant that K4BN received 76 filled stockings on Monday. 

Linking with Janine over at the Rainbow Hare blog for Wool on Sunday. Janine has knitted a beautiful jumper but unfortunately one of her 'nearest and dearest' has made the following comment which I don't agree with by the way...“That is horrific! It’s the worst Christmas jumper I’ve ever seen!” 
 

More about the Sunday Stitchers' Christmas...

In the last post I wrote about the Secret Santa gifts that we exchanged yesterday. 

We meet these days at the community centre in Coomera; it's nice and spacious accomodation there.

Looks like everyone but Cheryl has just left their stitching and 'up and left!'...

No, we have just moved to another part of this large room!

So what is everyone standing around and looking at?

Not 'what', but 'who'; Noela and Helen!

Each month the 'birthday girls' receive a fat quarter from all of us. And these ladies are the December Birthday girls. 

The morning just flew and it wasn't long until it was lunch...and what a spread that was!

And best of all, I ate a small helping of 'regular food'...no puréed stuff at all! I had some zucchini slice, potato bake, potato salad and a tiny piece of chicken...it all tasted (and looked) wonderful! And then I had some cake with custard ( the diet sheet says cake is okay as long as it's covered with custard so it's moist)...magnifique!! Lol

As well as the Secret Santa gifts, there were some extra gifts given out; some very generous ladies had made gifts for all of us...

One of these gifts was a 'cutlery roll'...

which unrolled to become a place mat...

But wait there's more...here's a closer look at the cutlery...

Yes we all had our names on the handles...how special is that!

So what a wonderful day we all had being spoiled, eating lovely food and being part of such a wonderful group of ladies.