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Granny’s Favorite Afghan
LEVEL: Intermediate
ABBREVIATIONS
beg begin(ning)
ch chain
dc double crochet
rep repeat(ing)
rnd(s) round(s)
sc single crochet
sk skip
sl st slip stitch
sp space
FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
54” square
MATERIALS
Deborah Norville Collection™ Serenity Chunky by Premier Yarns®(100% acrylic; 100 gm/109 yds)
•#DN700-20 Cloud Dancer (A) – 7 skeins
•#DN500-06 Berry Burst (B) – 5 skeins
•#DN500-16 Christmas Tree (C) – 6 skeins
Hook: US Size L-11 (8 mm) crochet hook or size needed to obtain gauge
Notions: Tapestry needle
GAUGE
9 sc x 12 rows = 4”
Save time, check your gauge.
AFGHAN
Small Granny Square (Make 52)
With B, ch 4, join with sl st to form ring.
Rnd 1: Ch 4 (counts as dc, ch 1), *3 dc in ring, ch 1; rep from * 2 more times, 2 dc in ring, sl st in 3rd ch of beg ch-4 to join. Fasten off B.
Rnd 2: Join A with a sl st in any ch-1 sp, ch 3 (counts as dc), (2 dc, ch 1, 3 dc) in same ch-1 sp, ch 1, *(3 dc, ch 1, 3 dc) in next ch-1 sp, ch 1; rep from * 2 more times; sl st in top of beg ch 3 to join. Fasten off A.
Rnd 3: Join C with a sl st in any corner ch-1 sp, ch 3(counts as dc), (2 dc, ch1, 3 dc) in same ch-1 sp, ch 1, [3 dc in next ch-1 sp, ch1, (3 dc, ch1, 3 dc) in next ch-1 sp, ch1] 3 times, 3 dc in next ch-1 sp, ch 1, join with sl st to top of ch 3. Fasten off C.
Large Granny Square (Make 12)
With C, ch 4, join with sl st to form ring.
Rnd 1: Ch 4 (counts as dc, ch 1), *3 dc in ring, ch 1; rep from * 2 more times, 2 dc in ring, sl st in 3rd ch of beg ch-4 to join.
Rnd 2: Sl st in next corner ch-1 sp, ch 3 (counts as dc), (2 dc, ch 1, 3 dc) in same ch-1 sp, ch 1, *(3 dc, ch 1, 3 dc) in next ch-1 sp, ch 1; rep from * two more times; sl st in top of beg ch 3 to join. Fasten off C.
Rnd 3: Join A with a sl st in corner ch-1 sp, ch 3(counts as dc), (2 dc, ch1, 3 dc) in same ch-1 sp, ch 1, [3 dc innext ch-1 sp, ch1, (3 dc, ch1, 3 dc) in next ch-1 sp, ch1] 3 times, 3 dc in next ch-1 sp, ch 1, join with sl st to top of ch 3.
Rnd 4: Sl st in next 3 dc and in corner ch-1 sp, ch 3, (2 dc, ch 1, 3 dc) in same corner ch-1 sp, ch 1, *[3 dc, ch
1] in next 2 ch- 1 spaces, (3 dc, ch 1, 3 dc), in next corner ch-1 sp, ch 1; rep from * 2 more times, *[3 dc, ch
1] in next 2 ch- 1 spaces, join with sl st in top of ch 3.
Rnd 5: Join B with a sl st in any corner ch-1 sp, ch 3 (counts as dc), (2 dc, ch 1, 3 dc) in same ch-1 sp, ch 1, *[3 dc, ch 1] in next 3 ch-1 spaces, (3 dc, ch 1, 3 dc) in corner ch-1 sp, ch 1; rep from * 2 more times, [3 dc, ch 1] in next 3 ch-1 spaces, join with a sl st in top of ch 3.
Rnd 6: Sl st in next 3 dc and in corner ch-1 sp, ch 3, (2 dc, ch 1, 3 dc) in same ch-1 sp, ch 1, *[3 dc, ch 1] in next 4 ch-1 spaces, (3 dc, ch 1, 3 dc) in corner ch-1 sp, ch 1; rep from * 2 more times, [3 dc, ch 1] in next 4 ch-1 spaces, join with a sl st in top of ch 3. Fasten off.
FINISHING
Using A and tapestry needle, sew 4 Small Granny Squares together to form one 10” square. Make a total of 13 squares. Arrange squares in a checkerboard, alternating 10” Squares with Large Granny Squares, using photo as a guide. First sew into 5 strips, then sew the strips together, taking care to be sure that adjacent
squares are not the same.
Weave in ends.
Shell Border
Rnd 1: Join A with a sl st in any corner, ch 1, sc around edge of Afghan, working 3 sc in each corner; sl st in first sc to join making sure to end with a multiple of 4 stitches + 1.
Rnd 2: Ch 1, sc in next sc, *sk 1 st, 4 dc in next st, sk 1 sc, sc in next sc; rep from * to end, join with a sl st in
beg ch 1.
Weave in ends.
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Decorating the Christmas tree with homemade ornaments.
Wow this very nice would love to try this thank you for sharing a freepattern
Ordering Chinese food on Christmas Eve.
Right now, I do not have any Christmas traditions, since family lives far or in other states and my husband and I have not created any of our own yet.
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My favorite Chistmas tradition is hugging all my loved ones at midnight.
We did this when I was a kid and I still do it now with my kids.Going around the room from youngest to oldest and opening one gift at a time. That way you get to see what everyone got and really enjoy the excitement of each person.
My favorite Christmas tradition is opening one gift on Christmas Eve, which is always new pajamas. This makes it so everyone has cute new pj’s on Christmas morning and holiday photos look amazing.
Going to my sister’s house to make and decorate sugar cookies–it starts out fairly normal and traditional and by the zillionth cookie, things have degenerated and some truly weird cookies are produced! Even better are the memories of weird cookies of the past…yep, this is by far my favorite thing!
Placing an ornament on the tree for each of my loved ones who have passed away especially my mom who passed on Christmas Eve .
Calling loved ones all over USA on Christmas Eve and Christmas day.
Decorating the tree and setting up our Christmas village. I also enjoy our Christmas program at church, Open Bible Christian Center in Massillon, Oh.
My favourite tradition is making the Christmas cake with my Mum and my daughter, and us all licking out the bowl afterwards. We always leave a bit too much mixture in the bowl!
My favorite Christmas tradition is baking sugar cookie cutouts and decorating them with my daughter.
Watching the movie Christmas Vacation on Thanksgiving night. Sets the mood for the whole month of December. Thanks for the great giveaway.
We make flour and salt ornaments for the tree and I am crocheting a topper for the tree this year.
I love to give away my creations to make people happy
My favorite Christmas tradition is going to the Christmas Eve Service with my family and making cookies as gifts.
My Christmas tree is covered with my favorite collectibles—angels. I have some ornaments that have always been angels and others that I have “created” as angels by adding wings and a halo. My other collectibles are Eeyore and Betty Boop, so I have their angel “personae” on the tree along with all the others.
Dinner with my extended family and playing board games. We can come up with some pretty strange words playing Boggle!
We hide the gifts and have our children search for them like the wise men searched for baby Jesus.
Decorating the Christmas tree with my family. I’m an only child so me and my Dad would go cut the tree down & Mom & I would decorate it. Now I get to watch my kids decorate the tree with my Mom using the ornaments I had as a child.
Every year we made something, be it decoration or gift. Nothing has pleased me more than seeing our children’s Facebook posts of the continuing the tradition. My favorite was our oldest daughter creating a faux fireplace to hang their stockings.
My Christmas tradition is a new Christmas ornament for each family member with their name and year on each.
My sister and I drive around town looking at all of the Christmas lights and decorations on Christmas Eve. We usually stop and get a cup of hot chocolate.
We have a number of Christmas traditions taken from both of our families. But my favorite one is on Christmas Eve, I make my father-in-law’s Clam Chowder, due to my husband’s job he has worked Christmas Eve for most of our married life, as we are able and then attend Christmas Eve Services. The children, who are now adults, would open their gifts from my husband’s side and then Christmas morning we would get up early and open the rest of the presents. We had a wonderful time of excitement and wonder.
Always loved helping mom with all the Christmas dinner preparations the week before. Always gave us time for just the two of us before the rest of the family descended on us. Love the time spent with family and friends. Nothing like having time with your church family also. Love the great free pattern. Thank you!
Getting together with my Grandkids and Great Grandkids
Watching at least one entire showing of Christmas Story during the 24 hour marathon with the family.
My favorite Christmas tradition is after frosting the cookies for Santa, we pile the kids in the car and go around the neighborhoods to see the Christmas lights! My kids used to love to see the twinkles and sparkles! And now my daughter is going to start passing on our “traditions” to her kids and it is wonderful to see and participate in the “new” ahhs and oohs!
It’s a tie between getting to curl up with loved ones with the first cup of hot chocolate. Or waiting for the snow to fall to make snowcream. 🙂
I set up our little silver tree with the color wheel. It just takes me back to my childhood.
My favorite tradition is baking cookies with my kids.
My favorite tradition, is singing Christmas carols Christmas eve.
My favorite tradition is my husband surprising our kids every year, late Christmas day. Since they were toddlers, our kids always find a hidden gift that they never expected or asked for. Even though they are grown adults now, dad seems to still find that “special, unexpected” gift! I LOVE IT!!!
My fave tradition is the candy canes before breakfast! We eat the candy from our stockings while waiting for everybody to get up so we can open gifts.
My favorite tradition is decorating my living room window
I love knitting and crocheting gifts – two fold joy – one in the making/creating and one in the sharing
My favorite tradition is making bourbon balls. They were my moms favorite. I give most of them away to my neighbors.
I make white crocheted ornaments, mostly snowflakes, for friends, coworkers, family for Christmas every year
Having my family all in one place at the same time !
My favorite thing to do is to call my family, furthest one first, beginning on Christmas Eve, and through Christmas Day. It was a tradition when my kids were little and now that they’re grown, they call me! However, I too still call my siblings and cousins.
So many to choose from! Attending candlelight service Chrustmas Eve is one of the favourites. Baking each adult child’s favorite Christmas goodies. Family gathering Christmas Eve for snacking, playing games and opening our traditional Christmas Panamax has to be my favorite time!
*Pajamas* lol
My favorite family tradition is having the family all together on Christmas Eve. We always have Oyster Stew, Chili and Cheesy Potato Soup for the meal. Of course there are always plenty of homemade goodies and snack foods around too. Then we open gifts one at a time so everyone can see what each person received and it helps to stretch out the gift opening time. There is nothing better than getting together during the holidays! 🙂
Setting up the Christmas village, adding new pieces, arranging and rearranging until it is just right and then watching the eyes of my grandchildren light up when they see it for the first time that year.
My favorite Christmas memory and tradition as a child was making gingerbread cutout cookies during the day with my mom and then having my dad help decorate them with us kids that night.
I don’t really celebrate Christmas, so i guess i dont have a tradition. I just like giveaways!!!!
I luv giveaways!
My favorite Christmas Tradition is going to Church and worshiping the Christ Child who was born that day and then gathering together with loved ones to share a Christmas dinner and fun and laughter.
One of my favorite traditions is the Santa bag. After all Christmas gifts are opened out come the Santa bag with more small gifts. These are passed out like you would in a white elephant gift exchange. It’s a lot of fun watching all the adults trying to get the same gift. We all enjoy this gift giving game and has been come one of our favorite traditions at Christmas time.
I love Christmas so much. It is Jesus’s Birthday. My favorite tradition at Christmas is to go to eat and open gifts at my mom’s house and then go leave a candle on my dad’s grave every Christmas Eve and then go home, put on my Christmas pjs and crawl in bed and watch Christmas movies while I crochet a scarf, hat or whatever project I am working on. I like to wake up Christmas morning and watch the parade and enjoy finishing my crochet project. That is my Christmas tradition
My favorite Christmas tradition was buying an ornament each year for my kids. So when they have a tree as an adult, they have some ornaments to decorate it with. Can’t wait to start buying for my grand kids.
Decorating with greenery and red – English style and hand stitched Christmas stockings that tell the Christmas story.
I don’t celebrate Christmas, but my favorite Chanukah tradition is getting together with family and watching all the menorahs shine while we eat latkes!
midnight mass
i love the holidays and spending time with family.and now for my kids being home from college
I love looking at the Christmas Lights & the smell of the tree.
Very pretty afghan and great prize package
I have 4 children. They are all adults now but each year I hang their childhood crocheted (w/names) Christmas stocking on my fireplace hearth. They are bright and cherry and bring back many wonderful family memories. Merry Christmas to all.
My favorite is putting up the Christmas tree and baking cookies. This is a lovely afghan thank you for the instructions. Good Luck to everyone.
I love to crochet and knit this time of year, when the weather gets cold. Love the free project. I would double my project if I won the prize.
It was a tradition for us to wait until AFTER the noon meal on Christmas day to open up our presents. There was a huge sheet up in front of the doorway that led to the living room where the Christmas tree and all the presents were. My sister and I were so tempted to peek behind the sheet and gained a scolding if we did.
Decorating the tree and the house for Christmas is my favorite holiday tradition.
Baking! Some of the recipes I use are the same ones my grandmother made for me when I was a child. It wouldn’t be Christmas without these special treats!
Giving my babies pajamas on christmas eve c watching a holiday movie and sipping h ot cocoa
Christmas morning – sitting around the tree in our pajamas and opening gifts one at a time.
My favorite Christmas tradition was allowing my children to open one gift Christmas Eve, which would always be new pajamas. I would make hot chocolate and we ate the tin of popcorn that you can get at Walmart for like $6. We would light the fire place and watch home alone. After the movie, we would set out Christmas cookies for Santa and go to bed. I miss this si much because now my children are grown but if I could turn back the hands of time, I would go back to Christmas, when my children were young. Thanks for allowing me to share one of my favorite memories.
My favorite tradition is having all the children and their children home, opening presents and sitting around the table at dinner.
My favourite Christmas tradition is going out with my family to a tree farm to cut down our Christmas tree. 🙂
My new “favorite” is taking a mini decorated Christmas tree and some small wrapped gifts (gift cards, tree ornaments) and setting them up on a table at the Starbucks where my daughter works the Christmas morning shift. We get to visit and celebrate, and it makes all the customers happy 🙂
Making christmas treats with my mom and looking at the christmas lights and decorations with her…it’s my favorite thing!
My favourite Christmas tradition is going to church on Christmas Eve and then letting each child open 1 present (chosen by mom) before bed.
My holiday tradition is to number the packages for each child and open them in order except for the last and best gift – a note is on the Christmas tree with their names and they have to read the notes and follow the clues to find their last gift.
When my kids where little I had a count down calendar that they got to move a little mouse to the next day until Christmas.
My favorite Christmas tradition is going out on my birthday and looking at all the Christmas lights with the kids and all that want to join.
Baking Christmas Cookies with my daughter.
I love sharing the time with my friends and family
Making gifts for friends and family. Some times it is ornaments other times it is scarves and mittens. Just doesn’t seem like Christmas to me unless I am making something for them.
My favorite christmas tradition is taking trays of home made cookies and candy and beautiful cards to all my neighbors
My favorite tradition is having my children present during Christmas Eve Mass at our church and singing “Silent Night” – so inspirational! After church, we go Jo e and watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” together.
Celebrating Christmas with my Family and celebrating my oldest’s son’s birthday on Christmas Eve We always celebrated the birth of Christ and our first borne. We feel blessed to have had him so close to Christ’s birthday. Looking forward to doing it again this year.Ilvie
Well I don’t celebrate Christmas but my favorite Hanukah tradition is lighting our hanukiah. My husband and I switch each night between the lighting the one with candles and the electric one we put in the window.
My favorite tradition is giving handmade gifts to friends and family, and making chocolate candy for them also.
Beautiful afghan. Thank you for the pattern. My favorite Christmas tradition is going to my mama’s on Christmas Eve and the kids getting to open presents. We all drew names on Thanksgiving and set a cap on the amount of money to be spent on the gifts. Everyone gets a gift, and not a lot of money had to be spent. It really is all about just being together with family.
Decorating the Christmas tree with my daughter.
Finding the appropriate time to get up Christmas Morning (especially after staying up to the morning hours finishing wrapping). As a child I was always told “its to early (maybe since it was about 5 am), as a mom and grandma I’ve had to repeat those same words.
Christmas Eve fondue with family.
My favorite tradition is making home made gifts with my family. The gifts include cookies, breads, candies, and other food items. But, sometimes we make a variety of other crafts. It takes a whole weekend to get everything done and I really enjoy the time with my family. My family consists of 4 adult children, 11 grandchildren some of whome are adults and 2 great grandchildren. But my family continues to grow which is wonderful and ensures that we always have new people to involve and teach how to make all the recipes and crafts.
My favorite tradition is to give a special ornament to each of my children/grandchildren for Christmas. I always try to make or buy one that will have a special meaning for him or her. When my children grew up and moved away, they each received all of their ornaments. I am always amazed to listen to them tell about each ornament, and what it represented.
My favorite Christmas tradition is making my friends gifts. This year it will be slippers. Last year it was to make christmas earings. I love spending time creating something special.
Making a new decoration each year for the tree, plus adding the kids makes from school
Watching “It’s a Wonderful Life”, drinking hot chocolate and eating shortbread cookies with my daughter! Nothing could be better!
We have a white elephant gift exchange with the extended family. You’re not allowed to spend any money on it so we get very creative. It’s hilarious and our sides always hurt before it’s over!!
I really do not have one .. though crocheting is always included! 🙂
I love making spritz cookies with my girls and taking pictures in front of the tree!
When my boys were very young I started doing a Christmas brunch for my family and a very few close friends who were like family. The menu doesn’t vary very much right down to cinnamon rolls baked in the shape of a christmas tree (except for dietary changes over the years). The family members have changed over time but this is my fondest Christmas tradition.
As a child, Mama would make me reindeer food. This consists of oatmeal and glitter, of course. We would go out to the front lawn on Christmas Eve and spread the reindeer food. Santa got milk and cookies but the reindeer need a snack too! So Mama invented this tradtion. A tradition I’ve carried on with my children. And next year our granddaughter will be old enough to sprinkle her own bag of reindeer food!
Decorating the tree
Making brunch for the family (about 12 of us usually) with my mom and listening to the kids play with their new toys and laugh with my dad as he tries to convince them to give him their presents.
My favorite family tradition is on Christmas Eve making cookies with my children to leave for Santa and his reindeer. I can remember doing this as a child with my sisters and brothers and my mom and dad. It always makes me feel closer to my family.
My favorite Christmas tradition has to be the baking. The whole family would gather the Sunday before Christmas and we would make up to 12 varieties of cookies. Then we would package them and give to friends and neighbors. I would say. 50 yrs. later I am still baking cookies and giving them away. Of course, some would disappear before Christmas eve would arrive.
Favorite CHRISTMAS tradition is crocheting wonderful gifts for loved ones . THEN spending the holiday with those loved ones.
Watching all the old Christmas movies and all the specials. Also getting the house decorating for the kids and grandkids to come home.
Our favorite Christmas tradition is to bundle up, grab flaslights & walk down to Grandpa’s barn. Once there we all take turns & read from the Christmas story that is interspersed with songs. Afterwards we go back to the house, drink hot chocolate & open the stockings.
We have crocheted stockings that are placed out every year. Even our pets have one! A tradition I continued with our children, I made each a set when they were married. As their families grow, they receive a matching stocking!
My favorite Christmas tradition is getting together with my kids/grandkids on Christmas Eve, and watching “It’s a Wondrrful Life.”
My favourite Christmas tradition is all about the food. From pancake soup to schnitzel to cranberries and rice to endive salad and more. Every one has their job to make this meal special.
Going to the Christmas Eve service at church to watch our kids in the Christmas Story. They’ve played sheep, shepherds and angels. Now I get to watch other kids before they get too old. Thank you.
Baking and decorating Christmas cookies with children and grandchildren!
Making cookies and lefsa with my Mom to share with the family on Christmas Eve.
My favorite tradition is making sugar cookies and decorating them. After giving them to my Co workers with some candy, etc.
My favorite Christmas tradition is a bit hard to explain.. My daughter is a part of a homescool choir, and every year for the first two weeks of December they go all over our city singing and dancing at various places.. But the very best part is that they share the good news to every type of person that they can, the young, the old, the sick, the healthy, the lower, middle, and upper class, because Christ was born to save the whole world and this choir makes sure they get that message out there!
My favorite tradition is making fudge with my children. It is something we do every year only at Christmas time.
I bake dog cookies shaped like Christmas cookies for all my friends and neighbors dogs. After all are delivered hubby and I drive around the area looking at everyone’s lights and decorations
We do not have any Christmas traditions,as we are Jewish, but I would love to win that yarn package!
Having my two adult daughters state that it would not be Christmas without having their handmade Christmas stockings from Grandma used each and every year. Even if family duties keep them away from us on Christmas morning, they know that their filled stocking will arrive a few days prior to Christmas so it can travel with them to wherever they may be on Christmas morning. In addition, I have now made handmade stockings for my husband, 2 sons-in-law and 1 grandson.
My very favorite Christmas tradition is potica – and not just any potica, but our hand crafter homemade potica (pronounced po teetsa)!
As far as I know, this tradition goes all the way back to Slovenia! All four of my grandparents came from that country circa 1900. So I guess not too many people share my heritage of one country!!
LOVE potica!!
It has to be the tree. My mother made a few new ornaments every year to add to the family collection, and without a decorated tree up somewhere in the house, it just isn’t Christmas.
Making cookies and candies to give to family and friends.
Going to midnight mass with my family and then having hot chocolate with marshmallows when we get home!
My favorite Christmas Tradition is wrapping gifts up on Christmas Eve and Baking cookies with my children for Santa Claus.
My favorite Christmas tradition is singing carols,and having cocoa on christms eve with my family and friends
My family opens one present on Christmas Eve. It is always pajama’s that I have bought for them. They then get to pick one ornament that I have crocheted. I love to crochet and have taught our son(32) and daughter(23) to crochet. They don’t have the time to do it like I do but at least they can if they want to. They each have made their own afghan. So proud of our kids.
My favorite tradition that my husband and I started the first year we were married is to buy each other a new ornament to put up on the tree. We put our names and the year on them and every year when we decorate the tree we can take a walk down Memory Lane.
Baking cookies for sure. There are the “must haves” that are tradition and new recipes that may become tradition.
I love going with my husband over to my best friends’ house on Christmas eve and presenting to her this year’s crocheted snowflake. She hangs it with all the previous years snowflakes, the house is filled with cheers and the festivities begin!
My favorite Christmas tradition is making a new ornament for my daughter every year. Ever since she was born, I have made her a new Christmas ornament every year so that when she is grown and has a place of her own she will have a box full of ornaments to put on her own Christmas tree. And in the meantime, each year she gets to open her box of ornaments, containing one more ornament each year, and put them on the Christmas tree here.
Eating Chinese food and watching movies all day.
My favorite Christmas tradition is going Christmas caroling at the assisted-living apartments and the shut-ins nearby. The residents are always happy to see us, and it makes us feel good to know that we’ve brightened someone’s day.
Biscuits and gravy and fried apples on Christmas morning!
Waking with hot chocolate and cinnamon rolls then watching everyone unwrap their presents.
There is nothing better than getting together with the whole family. Every year, my siblings and I have a picture taken together. It’s fun watching the changes we’ve gone through over the year. We also do a picture with all the grandkids. I love it.
I also make things for all the nieces and nephews, every year. It’s getting tough, because we’ve had additions every year for the past 4 years. LOL!
I love our polish Christmas Eve dinner – family, fun, and homemade perriogi’s. What could be better?!!!!
Every year my daughter, now 22, make different handmade tree ornaments. When she has her own tree she will have a head start on ornaments for her tree. We do this, if possible, on the day after thanksgiving. Happy holidays.
when my kids were younger my favorite tradition was doing crafts and gingerbread house then reading twas the night before christmas now its having everyone over to open gifts my daughter is due with my first grandchild due christmas day so i cannot wait to start my traditions again with her
A tradition from when I was a child was putting up the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. We popped and strung popcorn for garland, made construction paper red & green garland, added some very special old family heirloom ornaments as well as some homemade ones. The tree was finished off with tinsel and the star on top before us kids went to bed to wait for Santa. I loved those special Christmas decorating traditions!
Just started to crochet in August and exciting about giving some homemade gifts this year for Christmas!!!
Watching “White Christmas” and “It’s A Wonderful Life”.
putting out the presents christmas eve and watching the children wake up excited to see what they got from santa and also telling them the story about what christmas really means.
I do not celebrate Christmas as I am jewish, however, I have always accompanied my high school friend to midnight mass at her church on Christmas Eve, then back home to see 1 present opened.
My favorite Christmas tradition started a few years ago when Elf on the shelf was introduced. I purchased a couple my kids named Holly and Jingles and every year they come just after Thanksgiving because that’s when the tree goes up and that’s their portal hole!!! We have so much fun playing elf games and all the mischief they bring. And you know no elf can refrain from dabbling a little in the yarn every year!!! Last year they totally yarn bombed the Christmas tree. 🙂 Merry Christmas to all!!!
Cooking all the seafood on Christmas Eve!
Hands down, my favorite Christmas tradition, actually happens on Christmas Eve. My entire family will gather at my sister’s home…we are Italian…so we celebrate the Feast of the Seven Fishes. The food is amazing, the wine even better! Gifts are exchanged, friends stop by all day and we all go to Mass together (in a kind of smelly group). It’s loud, it’s happy, it’s what Christmas is all about…love and family.
My favorite tradition of Christmas, which my son now does with his family, was to go out to a tree farm and select a tree that everyone had to agree on and cut it down ourselves. We went to the same tree farm for over 20 years. On the way home with the tree, we’d stop for hot chocolate and to discuss the merits of the tree we’d just chosen. We started this when my 30 yo son was 1 year old and only stopped last year because both boys are out on their own and my husband and I are starting to have trouble getting around in the field. But I’ll always remember those trips and running through the fields with my children. What fun we had!
Standing around our backyard memory tree and singing carols with my family.
Going to mass on Christmas Eve and leaving something for those who don’t have. Like a bag of crochet facecloths and bars of soap along with some holiday candies, and can goodies for anyone who is homeless that may need it.
The handmade gifts my children make for me. those are priceless to me and I look forward each year to something new they’ve made.
My favorite Christmas tradition is going to Christmas Eve service at church and coming home to eat all kinds of hors d’ouvers with the family in front of the fire.
Mine is the ornaments I have purchased since my kids were little. Every year I would buy one or two special ornaments and add them to the tree. Now they’re grown and when I put on those ornaments I can remember all the past years with thoughts of past times
My favorite tradition is making all the christmas treats with my family.
Mine is singing, eating, and telling jokes with my family. Jokes always lightens our mood and helps us be less serious during the holidays.
Riding around and looking at Christmas lights. People get very creative!
Love Candlelight Services at Church on Christmas Eve…seeing the light start and then spread through the room makes me think of God’s word spreading through the world but we have to light our light to be able to light other lights.
We always watch A Muppet Christmas Carol while decorating the tree.
My favorite Christmas tradition is the gift swap of family members-since there is a lot of kids in the house we swap names and get or make gifts for each other. The holiday is about giving! 🙂 🙂
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the tree after my boys and I make cookies!
Our tradition started at the wrapping stage. To eliminate the frenzy often associated with gift opening, when children are involved, each person had to guess what their gift was, thus the imagination went wild in the wrapping process to make it difficult to guess and more of a surprise when the treasure was finally revealed.
We always bake a birthday cake. We have a Christmas tree candle on it, and we light it and sing Happy Birthday to Jesus. The youngest one gets to blow out the candle.
My favorite tradition is attending 4:00 mass Christmas Eve with children, their spouses and our grandchildren. After mass we eat lots of family favorite foods then play games all evening.
we get together to decorate the tree and to get things ready for the dinner.this is a time of no cell phones no distractions, just family time spent together. My daughter and I usually end up making any last minute gifts as well
Favorite Christmas tradition is prime rib and yule log for Christmas dinner: I roast the prime rib and my mother-in-law makes the yule log.
Getting new PJ’s for christmas eve!
Decorating the tree with my children is my favorite holiday tradition 🙂
I like to purchase advent calendars for my kids. We also enjoy baking cookies and doing crafts.
Decorate, decorate, decorate and then decorate some more!
Iam jewish siI celebtrate Chanukah with my grandkids by lighting the menorah frying latkes baking donuts and Chanukah cookies in shapes
When my kids were little we would each pick out a new ornament every year. When they left home I had all their ornament in boxes for them to take with them in their new homes. This year has brought lots of changes, painful endings and beautiful beginnings. Hopefully we will start a new tradition to move forward with.
My favorite tradition is going to Christmas Eve service at church with our family.
making gifts for family, then getting together for dinner on christmas
When my kids were little I would cover their bedroom doors frames with wrapping paper. It was in an attempt to keep them in their rooms and away from peeking under the tree at what santa brought. My kids are 21 and 16 and they still ask for their doors to be “wrapped” for Christmas morning 🙂
Making handmade Christmas cards while waiting for the cookies to bake and cool.
Getting the Christmas dishes out right after Thanksgiving and using them through the New Year.
My favorite family Christmas tradition is to wake up on Christmas morning and hear the Christmas music and see my parents sitting in the living room with the fire.
My favorite tradition is that the family gathers at one of the households to open presents, this includes children, grandchildren, and great-children plus spouses and significant others. It’s nice to compare previous pictures and see how everyone has changed.
We have a mini family reunion where we give gifts to the younger family members. I started a tradition of making handmade gifts several Years ago. I work all year and have so much fun Making these. I have found crafts I didn’t know I enjoyed making.
Every year I find a craft project or two that my children can enjoy making and gather the needed supplies. We spend a morning (or more, if they really get into it) making gifts they can give to their teachers, aunts and uncles, neighbors and friends. It gets all of us into the spirit of the season and we all enjoy the process, even if all of the products aren’t perfect.
When my husband and I married my step-children had at least 5 Christmas celebrations to attend. At each one they were given presents. By the time the 4 of us celebrated, their hands were out expecting presents. We decided that we would have fun with them. Each year we had them do something different before getting there gifts: treasure hunt, clue game using the living room floor, and a scavenger hunt. To this day my kids remember what we did, but not what their gifts were!
The Music. It’s the one thing that every generation enjoys. The old favorites and the new stuff. It’s always makes the house happy.
Favorite Christmas traditions often change as the family grows up and changes. When my children were younger my favorite tradition was making popcorn and watching Christmas cartoons like Rudolph, then reading the Night Before Christmas and the Bible story of the birth of Christ. Now that I am a grandmother I hope to share these traditions with my grandchildren, and maybe start a few new traditions.
I love baking and decorating Christmas cookies with my son!
I love going around town with my Mom and looking at all the Christmas lights on the homes.
My favorite tradition at Christmas is Christmas Eve dinner Italian style…5 fishes…no meat!
For over 50 years, my father has sung “Twas The Night Before Christmas” to all of the kids, grandchildren, in-laws and friends that attend our family Christmas Dinner.
Last year was the first year that he needed help to remember the words, this year he will need even more help. So this favorite tradition is in the process of ending. I hope that I can find a way to keep it going with my family.
On 12/23 my grandkids & I bake cookies and another treat to have with hot chocolate; for after dinner when we watch The Polar Express
Decorating the tree and house with Christmas music playing
My favorite Christmas tradition is for my children to all come home on Christmas eve. After dinner we sit by the tree and exchange gifts that are handmade. Every year we draw names on Christmas day. The person you draw gets a handmade gift from you the following christmas. Let me tell you, having young grand babies makes it very interesting because thier gift has to be made by them with minimal help from the parents. This is a tradition my husband and I started with our kids when our first born was five, he’s now 27. Traditions you start today become treasures tomorrow.
Absolutely beautiful afghan. I want to make this. Looks fairly simple. Thanks for sharing.
Going to see and hear ‘The Singing Christmas Tree’ with good friends.
We love to be with family and friends at home and we go to our church for a Christmas program too,it is always good too.
Thanks for the fee pattern and the great giveaway
Christmas Eve candlelight service at church!
Watching my children and grandchildren open just one present the night before even the bigger ones get into it. Love it
My favorite tradition was always for our whole family to get out our snow shoes and walk through the woods to find the perfect Christmas tree to cut, and take home on our sled. When our son was little he rode on the sled too. We would only top the tree so it would still grow, or take one that was too close to other trees. So, this usually took several hours and we brought hot chocolate with us for a treat. We also had to all agree on the tree which sometimes took longer. Lol.
My favorite tradition is having family over to open presents and eat a big dinner on Christmas day
One that ended with childhood. Going up the hill to pick pomegranates for family to make jelly.
Making Christmas cookies with my grandkids
I hang all the ornaments that my 3 boys made throughout the School years + all the ornaments that my husband and I gave them each year before they left Home…They are grown up now and married and they look forward to showing their Children the Special Ornaments on the tree that they made or Received.. I still give them each an Different Ornament -my Kids and the Grandchildren.
My favorite Christmas tradition is baking cookie trays for my family and friends. This year along with the trays everyone is getting a crocheted hat and scarf.
My favorite holiday tradition is going to Mass on Christmas Eve to see the kids play out the story. Then going to an aunt or uncle’s house to talk with family I don’t get to see that often.
My favorite tradition for my Chridtmas is to make my brothers & sisters a hamd-made decoration.
A favorite family tradition….me and my husband and our two kids and my parents go to a farm that has a drive thru holiday light show. Two miles of lights, it’s amazing. Afterwards we go to the picnic area where they have fire pits set up and we roast hotdogs and marshmallows and drink hot chocolate.
We always have hot cocoa on Christmas Eve, with Christmas music on and open one gift. This leaves the rest of the gifts to open on Christmas Day.
Our Christmas tradition is to all gather at Granny’s house for a light meal with lots of cookies for desert. Santa comes later in the evening while we are all busy elsewhere and leaves presents under the tree. What a surprise when we all gather in the living room once more.
I still read “T’was The Night Before Christmas” to my (grown) children -ages 30, 29 & 21 on Christmas Eve. They insist that I read it to them. “Its not Christmas and Santa can’t come unless Mom reads to us”.
I’ll keep reading as long as they keep listening/asking. Someday, I hope to read to some grandchildren.
I love it when our family decorates our Christmas tree and family room together. Even though our two sons are now ages 8 & 9 ever since they were tiny they would help out
Making holiday cookies with the family.
When my children were small my favorite thing was doing stuff that kept them believing in Santa. I did things like leaving Santa’s glasse near their note. Losing Santa’s wallet on the couch, it included his sleigh licence, North pole credit card and a note from Mrs. Santa. He’s left special ink pens, and fallen out of the chimney throwing presents everywhere. One of my favorite ones was when Santa got a bike stuck in the fireplace. At times I wish they still believed.
Baking Cookies
My favourite Christmas tradition is our Christmas Eve church service.
My favorite Christmas is one that started when I was very small and we continue today. The family gathers for the traditional dinner of oyster stew and chili. An odd combination but my dad grew up having chili on Christmas Eve. My mother’s father would spend Christmas with us but didn’t like chili. He grew up having oyster stew for Christmas Eve but my dad doesn’t like oyster stew. So my mom would make both. Grandpa has been gone for 40 years but we continue the tradition. As we go around the dinner table giving thanks we always thank Grandpa for being with us.
One favorite is putting ornaments from my childhood on the tree along with ones my son has collected over his childhood.
One of our favorite traditions is going to look at Christmas lights at some point during the week before Christmas. We also all cook Christmas dinner together (husband, 3 adult children, 1 12 yo child and this year we have our 1st grandbaby and she’ll be almost 11 months at Christmas!!!) The kids generally decorate our Christmas tree for my birthday (December 5th) and that’s the beginning of our Christmas season 🙂 We have many favored traditions, it’s so hard to pick one!
I love the tradition of playing a white elephant game before we open presents.
going to Birchwood cabin
Our family does a secret siblings exchange and the gifts has to be home made. I love the different kinds of gifts our family members come up with, and the talent and love that goes into each gift.
The best part of the holidays is getting together with my family and friends.
I love going to my moms house on Christmas Eve and having oysters and ham. Then my husband and I and children exchange gifts with my mom. We have such a fun time.
Putting the tree up as a family
kids open ONE gift on Christmas Eve (new pajamas) – after dinner and dressing in new pajamas, we go out and drive around town to see the best Christmas light displays, then back home for Christmas cookies and milk (and leave a plate for Santa with raisins for the reindeer), then off to bed!
then the parent’s work begins!
My favorite part of Christmas is Family and all the lights
Going out singing Christmas Carols to the shut In’s.
Loretta heim
11/30/2015
Having all my family return home for a family Christmas
Have a Merry Christmas to everyone
loretta
For the past 5 years I have baked Christmas cookies with my niece. Last year we made 14 different kinds of cookies (in 1.5 days).
Our family has always had our big dinner on Christmas Eve, then we open presents from each other. At the end of the evening, we go back to our own home. My girls and I always open another gift when we get home, and we always get new Christmas jammies. My favourite part of Christmas is after they’ve gone to bed, the house is quiet, and I get to have a wee glass of Baileys while filling everyone’s stockings.
Spending Christmas Eve with my entire family, eating & watching the kids open presents after we eat.
Snuggling on the couch with our blankets watching it’s a wonderful life.
Making and giving gifts, The holiday baking. And of course the best of all is the family getting together to celebrate.
We sadly don’t do my 2 favorite traditions anymore. After mom passed away, we stopped having a variety of German sausages with potato salad for dinner on Christmas Eve. We started this after mom got divorced, and had to work most Christmas Eve days. That made it harder to prepare a full meal, so she started to make the potato salad the night before, and then just had to boil the sausages when she got home. We also had a REAL Christmas tree every year. There were even years, while stationed in Germany, that the tree didn’t get decorated, because we’d get it, and then drive up to my grandparents for Christmas! LOL! But, I HAD to have my tree. Again, after mom died, I haven’t been in a Christmasy mood, so my daughter just puts up mom’s artificial tree. I just haven’t been in the mood to insist on my tree. Hope to one day again.
Singing Christmas carols while decorating the tree with the family.
My favoret Christmas tradition is that family and friends will gather together and make goodies.
My favorite tradition is remembering those who are still with us in our hearts on Christmas eve and tell our favorite stories.
My Christmas tradition is to give my children one Christmas present each on Christmas Eve. Then curl up and watch Christmas movies before bed we put out a plate of cookies and a glass of milk for Santa.
Watching “A Charlie Brown Christmas” with my mom, in memory of my sister and my brother (who was born in 1965, the year it first aired.)
My husband gets up on Christmas morning and cooks a big breakfast (eggs, bacon, sausage, hashbrowns, biscuits, pancakes) for the family. We eat around 11 am. Then lazy the rest of the day.
Having all the family together on Christmas Eve!
My favorite tradition is to take a ride through the Grizwald neighborhood and marvel at the mayhem!
Very Christmasy looking, makes you just want to cuddle in front of a fire with a cup of hot cocoa and a good movie!
We give our kids a new Christmas ornament each year so they will have for their tree when they get older, as our parents did for us. On Christmas eve we all get new pajamas and watch a Christmas Story together before setting out cookies,carrots and eggnog for Santa and his reindeer. 🙂
My favorite Christmas tradition is bringing home a US Marine who is away from home on the holidays and sharing Christmas day with him/her. Sometimes we bring three or four.
My favorite thing is to pack my family into the car and drive around town looking at decorations. Then stopping for hot chocolate and cookies that we bring along. We usually share them with others since I always seem to bring to much ;).
My favorite tradition at Christmas time is buying gifts for all my loved ones. I love to see the joy on their face when they open their gifts.
I love attending midnight mass on Christmas Eve.
Hard to pick just one!
baking about a million cookies for all the friends and family.
Going to the zoo on Christmas Day.
Each person opening all their gifts at once so everyone can see what each one got.
Going to church on Christmas morning.
My favorite tradition is making all the holiday dishes that grandma used to make. She got the recipes from her grandmother, and I am teaching them to my grandchildren.
Making peanut clusters and Ritz peanut butter cookies
Putting my daughters hand print on our fleece Christmas tree skirt. i have been doing it since she was three, and she will be 16 this year. We have even thrown in our pets prints over the years. I love looking at it and remembering when.
Attending church service on Christmas Eve and then going to my uncle’s for a family gathering. It is the larger extended family, as well as family friends, that gather to spend time together since we each spend Christmas day with our smaller individual families.
Having all the family get together on Christmas day. We open stockings first then presents and cook all day for a fantastic meal.
I like to purchase gifts for needy children and senior citizens.
Baking chocolate chip cookies on Christmas Eve for Santa!!
My favorite Christmas traditions are decorating the tree while singing Christmas carols as well as our traditional family Yankee Swap. Nothing says it’s holiday holiday season better than being surrounded by family.
Our favorite tradition for Christmas is to get all of the grandchildren together to decorate the tree with their own ornaments, as well as their parents homemade ones from their childhood.
Holiday baking is always a big deal for our family. The kids and husband look forward to delivering trays of goodies to various people. We also make ornaments to go with the trays, so everyone gets a special homemade gift from each of us. The ornaments are also exchanged at our annual Christmas party with the Cub Scouts.
I love to give my needleworks to family members as Christmas gifts , it’s nice to see how they are appreciated by all
Making Christmas Cookies with my family to give to friends and family.
Our fav Christmas tradition is attending the Christmas candle light carolling service on Christmas Eve at our church.
Getting together with all our family.
I make glass candy every year for the grand kid’s & I just made all crocheted ornaments for my son’s 1st Christmas tree.
Our favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the Christmas tree. The last ornaments to go on are my handmade Twelve Days of Christmas ornaments. As we sing the Twelve Days of Christmas, the corresponding ornament is hung. Then we turn on the lights!
Cooking a big Christmas dinner for our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. They come from several different states to celebrate Christmas with us.
Church on Christmas Eve, Christmas AM I pop the oven french toast in the oven, and we go around, each opening one present at a time around the tree.. After an hour we stop for our great breakfast , then continue on with the opening of gifts. Always an orange in the foot of each stocking We stay in our pjs much of the day. There are always Chinese checkers and games of hearts on tab for much of the day.
My favorite Christmas tradition is baking goody baskets to give away. There is nothing better than the feeling of giving a home made gift.
sitting with the only light being from the Christmas tree.
Putting up the Christmas tree and decorations then gathering with family and friends…
Decorating our house and setting up our two Christmas trees. We have an angel tree which has all angel ornaments on it and a Star Trek tree which is reserved for my husband’s collection of Star Trek ornaments.
We all go to my younger sons and daughter-in-laws house on Christmas morning, watch the kids open their presents and then have breakfast together. It is wonderful to spend this time together — my son, daughter-in-law, her parents, our beautiful grandchildren and my husband and me.
I love to make a new Christmas ornament every year. Love to donate.
Gathering friends and family together to enjoy a meal and card games.
leaving out christmas cookies for santa and carrots for his reindeer with my boys.
My favorite tradition is the stockings on Christmas morning. We do dinner & presents on Christmas Eve.
Decorating the tree, spending time together making cookies. Celebrating with extended family 🙂
Our christmas tradition of having a family dinner on 24th night christmas eve .
My family’s favorite Christmas tradition is…..The whole family gets together and decorate our tree and we bake cookies and string popcorn. Very fond memories of Christmases past.
Every year my parents buy a special ornament for everyone in the family. We write our name and the year on it and then decorate the tree .
We play lots of games on Christmas Eve while munching on lots of snacks. We also take turns opening gifts, on Christmas morning so we can all see what everyone got. More games after Christmas dinner
I adore gift giving, choosing just the right gift for each person on my list.
My favorite Christmas tradition is to open one present after we have our dinner on Christmas Eve. The kids could pick out one present and open it that night. My parents let me do that, too and it was fun seeing them trying to decide on which present to open.
My favorite thing about the Holiday season is creating gifts for my family and friends as they are the most important people in your life.
My favorite Christmas tradition is when my whole family gathers for Christmas Eve dinner. At desert, the kids get to open “just one” present. We then all pile into as few cars as we can and head to Christmas Eve Candlelight Service to celebrate the birth of our Saviour. The service ends at about midnight and as we walked outside, I swear I could hear the angels announcing His birth!
My husband and I watch “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”, even though our teenage son just rolls his eyes. I make cookies for my 2 brothers and someone always gets a homemade gift. Love your yarn!
Being with family and catching up with each other.
My favorite Christmas tradition is listening to Christmas music and baking shortbread cookies with my husband. And each year discussin why whipped shortbread cookies are better than traditional shortbread cookies. 🙂
Warm & cozy snuggled around the tree, watching Christmas movies after a touching candlelight church services.
I love driving around with the family looking at the lights and then going to the latest Christmas Eve service that my church has.
Our Christmas Eve candlelight dinner.
My favorite Christmas tradition is our family going out and cutting down our Christmas tree and having cocoa at the lodge, then coming home and all of us decorating the tree.
Buying a special ornament for each of my grandchildren, I started this with my children so by the time they were out on there own they each had at least 18 years worth of special Christmas memories.
Sitting around the table Christmas eve dinner, everyone has a notepad and pencil and before dinner is served, we all write something about each person at the table and put it in there empty water glass. when everyone is finished. we start with the oldest person and they pull out one paper at a time and try to guess who wrote which one. It is fun and all 14 of us enjoy it every year. We have added two new addition so are looking forward to the Christmas they get to join in.
My favorite Christmas tradition is going to the farm to be with my extended family for a day filled with games, food (homemade lefse!), gifts, and happiness.
The year my mom died, my sister, I, and my two children, not knowing what to do with ourselves, went for a drive. We got hungry and stopped at a Chinese buffet. We had fun! Now that is our new favorite tradition we have, Christmas Chinese buffet dinner!
My favorite Christmas is decorating the Christmas tree with the whole family while listening to Nat King Cole Christmas music and having shortbread and eggnog. 🙂
The (now grown) children come over, we have dinner, we take our coffee and dessert into the living room, put up the tree and we get out the 3 boxes of ornaments…. We sit and reminisce about each hand made ornament- how it was made, what was happening in our lives, and who made it, and with what. We are all usually screaming laughing when the ornaments they made in kindergarten come out- mostly made with macaroni and styrofoam. Every year they just cannot believe that the object looked so good when they made it and years and years later, looks pretty sad. These ornaments, of course, go in the front of the tree where they can be seen by all!
I love crocheting and giving to the homeless through out the area. When it get cold I know they appreciate the hats, scarfs and ear-warmers I give them. Each of you have a Very Blessed and Merry Christmas.
My mom makes a big deal about Thanksgiving and cooks so much that she ends up not wanting to cook for Christmas. So every year we go out for Chinese food on Christmas Day and it’s a lot of fun 🙂
I love helping my pets open their presents.
The afghan is beautiful…I love to cook, watch the kids open their presents then just have a wonderful day reflecting on all the blessings we have not only at Christmas but all through the year. Christmas is a very special time of the year.
My favorite Christmas tradition is putting the tree up and letting the kids decorate it.
I love yarn and would love to add this to my collection.
My favorite Christmas tradition is the family fudge making. The traditional chocolate fudge, then everyone brings a new one to make and share!
I love getting and making presents for my family.
My favourite family tradition was having a hot turkey sandwich before we went to Midnight Mass. When we returned from church, we would open our presents. Those were the days!
My family has this orange bejeweled bikini that gets passed around as a white elephant gift. Who’s going to get it this year and are they brave enough to put it on and have their picture taken?
My favorite tradition is making several different kinds of cookies and making up tins to give away to family and friends
Decorating with my grand-daughter’s and singing Christmas Carols.
My favourite Christmas tradition is having as many people as we can gather for Christmas Dinner. Whether it is family, friends or those who are on their own for the holidays. Always room for one more!
Love this project, would have to brush up on my crochet pattern reading skills to do it.
My favorite tradition is CHRISTMAS eve I start baking cookies in the morning and continue baking until about 6 pm. I have several dozen cookies of different kinds. ChocoChip peanutbutter blossoms, twisted 2 color candy cane, peanut butter, butterscotch chips, mint chocochip, and several more kinds. Then package a variety of each in CHRISTMAS wrappings and BOWS and deliver to several neighbors
Having our family Christmas on Christmas Eve. Our whole family, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc., showed up at Mom and Dad’s house on Christmas Day so my sister and I got to have 2 Christmases!! Sure miss that…
Taking all the kids and going to the Christmas tree farm and spending hours placing kids by trees until the Perfect tree is found , Then everyone votes and it gets cut down, brought home and decorated the next day after it settles. This year will be hard, my beloved husband of 43 yrs passed away in April…We as a family are having a hard times getting in the holiday spirit
Going to my grandmothers house to decorate her tree!:)
Making decorations with my grandkids to put on the tree. Going tO spe ail events like Breakfast with St Nicholas and the Star of Bethleham at our local university.
Making crafts and cookies with my grandchildren!
My favorite tradition is singing in our church cantata with family members and also Christmas Eve service. Over the years, family has passed on, but I will represent the family this year and hope the grandchildren will join me in the coming years.
Cooking Christmas dinner for my family and cookies for my grandchildren…
My favorite Christmas tradition is waking the kids with my husband Christmas morning and watching them with a sparkle in their eyes as they rush to see what Santa got them while our favorite Home Alone movies play in the background. We all open up Santa’s presents Christmas morning and they truly believe we are also Santa’s helpers. We couldn’t be more grateful for our little family and in the midst of all our trials in life our kids are worth it and every Christmas is great. They are true angels and never whine, cry or show any ungratefulness for however much or little they receive. This is a tradition we hope to always share no matter how old they get.
It would be a blessing to win this yarn.
Decorating the Christmas tree with the grandchildren.
My favorite tradition is turning off all the lights in the room after the Christmas tree is lit and decorated with all our handmade and favorite collection of ornaments, and cuddling with my husband as we admire the lovely glow of lights, listening to carols.
My favorite Xmas tradition is getting together with family all day and playing games indoors and sledding in the back yard with my grandsons, then relaxing and crocheting while everyone watches Rudolph!
Singing at 7pm Mass, opening gifts Christmas Eve, going back for Midnight Mass, then sleeping late on Christmas morning. Waking up around 11 am for my son’s pancakes!
Our family gets together Christmas Eve for dinner. No presents. We spend the evening with each other and a wonderful prime rib dinner.
My favorite holiday tradition is waking up Christmas morning to find my filled stocking on my bed. Then my children come with their stockings and we all pile on the bed to see what is in our stockings. So much fun that we almost forget the presents waiting under the tree!
We have a Santa that says 32 comments, but we never know which one. As soon as we unpack him we call our adult children and activate Santa to speak one of his sayings. We all recognize that as the official start of the holiday season!
My personal tradition is to watch the movie “White Christmas” on Christmas eve. My favorite thing to crochet is the granny square.
My favorite Christmas tradition is going Christmas caroling on Christmas eve I went with my sisters when I was a kid and now I take my kids.
Baking cookies with my kids!
Love this pattern, can’t wait to make it
Holiday baking!
I LOVE TO CRAWL UP ON A SOFA AND READ A GOOD BOOK!!!!
Opening the gifts left in our Christmas stockings all together on our King-size bed. When all have been opened, exhibited, admired, played with, etc., we have breakfast there – coffee, cocoa, tangerines from the stockings, and warm, home-made pecan rolls. Then all are free to dress, and proceed as a group, down to the Christmas tree, where Daddy and his little helpers distribute the gifts, to be opened one at a time as everyone else watches. It is a time of family togetherness, with little prayers of thankfulness for the Gift we received from God at the first Christmas interspersed frequently. We try never to forget the “Reason for the Season”!
My family’s traditions began when I was very young. Some years we would spend with my mom’s side of the family other years we would spend with my dad’s. No matter where we were or how many presents we received everyone had a grand time. The noise levels were atrocious as we laughed, played games, and reminisced. Sadly, my grandparents and most of my aunts and uncles have since passed. Our stories now tell our own kids of them who have been lost. As an adult with my own little family, my household has added another tradition. We spend Christmas Eve with my husband’s side of the family. Christmas Day is usually with my side. Where ever we are, whom ever we are with, we haven’t forgotten the reason we celebrate. LOVE.
Thank you for allowing me to share a piece of my heart.
Just being able to celebrate any & all parts of it with my children, as we left a bad marriage where my ex would not allow us to participate in any holidays.
My favorite thing at Christmas is Decorating the Christmon Tree at church and Wishing Jesus a very Happy Birthday. After all isn’t he the reason for the season.
Driving around looking at Christmas lights.
All the grands get to open one gift from us on the weekend before Christmas. Thanks for the beautiful pattern.
My favorite tradition as a child was, after Christmas Eve Mass, my dad would taking a long drive home and we would “ooo” and “ah” over the beautiful lights we would see on many homes on the way home. We Sang Christmas carols all the way home. All that family love was the best gift ever!
My favorite holiday tradition was driving around the neighborhoods looking at all of the Christmas decorations
Such a beautiful afgan.I am going to have to make this for.my sister… she will love it!!!
My favorite Christmas tradition is opening our new pajamas on Christmas Eve. All of my children are grown now, but we still give the pajamas! It brought me smiles to see how many people have this same tradition!!! That and having my children help decorate the tree. (I unwrap and pass the ornaments) THIS year, however, we may not get to put a tree up, because I have adopted a cat and I fear he may try to climb it 🙁
Merry Christmas, every one!!! Be safe!
Christmas supper of oyster stew, home made cookies, and then going to the care center to spend Christmas with my step-dad.
Your only Christmas tradition is being together for the day, have a nice supper and being able to enjoy all the family members together around the table to laugh, talk and have fun. that’s what important for me.
Making all our favorite traditional foods. Baking Lefse, making Romegrot, x-mas goodies, decorating the X-mas tree, hanging all the stockings for each member of the family, grandkids, son-in-laws that have been homemade by me for each new member of the family, and most of all having my family come home at Christmas. My kids live in different states and so our tradition is to celebrate X-mas on X-mas day and open our Santa gifts on X-mas morning, go to church and come home for meal and opening of gifts. (especially the homemade crochet items from me)
Christmas is such a beautiful celebration…I know for sure we will go.to.midnight mass. We always come home after that and allow the opening of one present.
My favourite tradition is getting together with tons of family at Christmas. Every year I make a variety of cookies and squares to share. I think I would be linched if I stopped baking all these goodies!
We’re so spread out that now it’s sky ping my grandkids as they open their presents.
My husband comes from a large family; I do not. We spend most holidays with my husband’s family, but Christmas Eve belongs to my family. I make a nice dinner and then we open our gifts. It’s a nice quiet and relaxing evening.
Baking
Baking Christmas cookies with my granddaughter.
All the pretty lights
Aloha Friends: My Favorite Christmas Tradition is our “Candlelight Service” at Church on Christmas Eve.@ Mokuaikaua Church here in Kona, Hawaii. The Lights go down, the candles are lit and our Dancers to a Special Hula to the song “Silent Night” dressed in Beautiful White Mumus with all of their hair adorned with Hawaiian flowers. Breathtaking, I cry every year at the site of it! Its such an overwhelming feeling of “Peace & Love”
What I love about crochet is that it’s relaxing. I like learning new ways to crochet & I absolutely think this design is gorgeous. The paper is simple & clear to follow but it is a good challenge. Thanks for sharing this post.
Singing carols around the piano.
In 1980 I crocheted a 4 foot high house with countdown pockets on the roof, windows, door etc. for my son and daughter, they loved looking in the pockets for their prizes as they counted down to Christmas. It is gorgous, passed it on on to my two grand daughters, now 14 and 12 and this year my son had a son of his own so we passed it to Carter, he is only 6 months old but he will enjoy it as much as my daughter, son and grand daughters have. Love the afghan. Also, in the 70’s someone gave me the recipe for potica, have made it every year since, we love it. Does not smell like Christmas without that wonderful smell while it is baking. Joan
My birthday is December 2. I would love to win some yarn as a present. We always have our Christmas tree up before my birthday and take it down on the 13th day of Christmas. The 12th day of Christmas is my husband and my son’s birthday and January 6 is the Epiphany (little Christmas).
Baking cookies to share with my family
My favorite tradition is playing games with my family and then opening gifts.
My favorite Christmas tradition is spending time at my parent’s house
The original “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” and the old Black and white “The Christmas Carol with Alister Sym” with a cuppa hot chocolate on Christmas Eve.
My favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the tree with all of the homemade ornaments my 4 boys have made during their years in school and the ornaments my husband and I bought our first Christmas 41 years ago.
I love to crochet. Most of my projects are made for gifts and I get most of my inspiration from allfreecrochet and then go right out and purchase the yarn used in the projects so I would be extremely excited if I were to win the premier bundle because I have been using premier yarn more and more with each project. I love the way it works up in a pattern.
My favorite tradition is re-gifting presents.
waking the kids up xmas am 😀
Midnight mass with my wonderful husband.
Making Christmas dinner for the family. I took over for my mother a few years ago when my father became disabled. I love to see everyone eat and enjoy what I cook!
My favorite Christmas tradition was leaving homemade cookies and milk for Santa, as well as carrots for the reindeer :). We’ve continued this for the grandchildren now
I have 8 grandchildren and started this tradition when it became too expensive to buy gifts for everyone. All the grandchildren get a brown bag decorated with themes that remind me of that particular one. I crochet each one a special item, gloves, hats, headbands, and bracelets, just to name a few. I include their favorite candies, and also make cookies. Included is a fruit that is common here in Louisiana, the satsuma, which is a type of orange. They all love their gifts, even the oldest who is 17. This will be the first Christmas for the youngest. Our latest little man was born in October. Christmas is a great time for my family as we all get together to have a gumbo, and exchange gifts.
When I had my first child I started buying or making an ornament every year. He is now 19 and I have 3 more that I do the same for! We breached the two tote mark last year for their ornaments alone! That doesn’t include all the stuff they have made at school, which is my next favorite tradition!
My favorite Christmas tradition is setting up my 4ft tall theme trees. Almost all of the decorations for these trees are handmade, largely by me. They include the Nutcracker Tree (ballerinas and nutcrackers), the snowmen and snowladies tree, the Swedish tree (heart shape woven baskets, gnomes) knitted mini mittens and sweater tree, the Diva tree (mini high heels, tiaras, boas and glitter ornaments), the knitted mini fairisle stocking tree and the beaded snowflake tree.
Just getting together with family is a blessing to me.
Baking Christmas cookies with my daughter just like my mother baked them with me.
Our favorite Christmas Tradition is going out to look at Christmas lights on Christmas Eve. We take along hot chocolate and popcorn and follow the route that usually appears in the local newspaper so that we get to all the really special displays. We listen to Christmas music as we drive and talk about all the Christmases past. When we get home, we all get to open one present before we go to bed.
Our Christmas morning routine! We always all wake up, do stocking and wait for my dad to have coffee, and we start on presents as soon as he’s awake enough.
Decorating and watching A Christmas Story and Christmas Vacation
I have made Christmas tree bread since the mid 60s. I shape them like trees to fit the sizes of the families of all my neighbors and friends. I frost them with green frosting and colored sugar or sprinkles. When my oldest son had children, he does the same thing for his neighbors. They always look forward to these trees and I have never missed a year, so far.
Decorating the tree while listening to Puerto Rican Christmas folk music while drinking Mexican atole(hot chocolate). Very special to all of us as it reminds of loved ones that are no longer with us.
My favorite Christmas tradition is baking cutout cookies and decorating them!
My favorite is our family breakfast on Christmas morning. Our children and their families gather to the house for a Hugh breakfast then we open our gifts together.
At Christmas time, Puerto Ricand make a traditional dish called “pasteles”. It’s sort of like Mexican tamales, but made with plantains. Early in December, all the women in the family gather at my grandmother’s house to make these for the family Christmas eve meal. It’s always a great day of story telling, food and fun.
My favorite holiday tradition is going to our Christmas Eve service at church. We read the traditional scriptures and sing carols by candlelight with a lighted tree glowing. It’s so peaceful and full of hope.
Every year my family goes to see Santa Land and get a new stocking for my daughter she’s 12, her last stocking will be when she’s 18. I’ve done this for my son, then they get an adult stocking for age 19, then I take the stockings and make a throw with them with old favorite shirts. I also take a picture of them holding the stocking and place them in that stocking.
The best thing is all are friends & family together for a nice turkey dinner, with everyone taking turns opening gifts christmas morning. Its an all day event in are family! Especially seing my nephfew open gifts. Happy & Safe Holidays everyone!
My favorite tradition is reading the Christmas story from the Bible, and then turning off all the lights but the Christmas tree lights and listening to the Mannheim steamroller version of Silent Night.
Having all the kids, grandkids, and great grandkids coming over for Christmas Eve.
My favorite Christmas family tradition I did with my children was to sing Christmas songs while sitting in the room around the tree….and then read the story “twas the night before christmas”……I also enjoy personally reading the Bible story of the birth of Jesus and how the kings and people travel to bring him gifts and it helps to symbolize the now of how family members travel to come together to visit and celebrate together…..”family and friends means everything”…..as you gather to pay me.oeriea if what all have experienced as the years ends and as you celebrate the coming of the New Year and what it brings each of us. …….Have a Blessed and safe holiday this season everyone.
Christmas dinner with the family. Am most grateful for a wonderful family to share the holidays with.
My favorite Christmas tradition is to tuck my little ones in and read them “Twas the Night BeFore Cristmas” and after they dose off I get to have my fun..I get to bring things out I’ve been hiding for months. In our house your stockings is usually your funnest present so everyone gets excited about them.. So anyway .. I look all year for usual toys or gadgets that I know they would love. Then of course there is the chocolate!! “Must have chocolate” says my son..lol Back when I was growing up we always got an orange in the toe our stockings. I started giving them real oranges when they were small but found these chocolate oranges that you smash to open kids loved that one.We are all looking forward to Christmas morning..Hope you are also. Ho Ho Ho to all and to all a healthy n happy holiday!
Going to the Christmas midnight service with my family
Christmas morning breakfast! With fresh squeezed orange juice!
Used my stash unmaking Christmas presents. Would love some new yarn to work with. Thank you for the opportunity.
Stay at home with my 4 kids and make homemade ornaments and decorate the house and tree.
My favorite Christmas tradition is leaving out cookies for Santa.
My favorite Christmas tradition is getting together with my aunts to make treat baskets for the cousins who can’t come to our Christmas dinner.
a big family dinner
I love crocheting blankets, wash clothes etc. to give away to the needy for Christmas time. It’s my year round Christmas tradition !
Our favorite tradition is setting up the tree and putting up all the Christmas decorations and displays. But most of all is each year my husband makes his special
Prime Rib for dinner, always wonderful.
i don’t really have a family tradition 🙁 but my favorite part of Christmas by far is watching my kids decorate the tree! They get some laughs out of ornaments I made back when I was young 🙂
Decorating the tree with my husband and son 🙂
just being together as a family
Watching Christmas specials with my family in the living room with only the lights from the tree, all while drinking hot chocolate.
I like to go looking at christmas lights on Christmas eve.
My favorite holiday tradition is listening to Christmas music while wrapping presents with my family.
We used to go looking at house lights on Christmas eve. They were always so pretty.
my daughter and I make a gingerbread house and after we open presents I make candi’s over the top pancakes
We make a big pot of oyster stew and Wrap presents till time for Christmas Eve service and enjoy each others company
We always go to Mom and Dad’s for Christmas Eve with everyone bringing goodies and gifts. This will be our first Christmas without Dad, he’ll be spending it with Jesus. On Christmas Day, Mom and I tag team dinner and my husband helps with clean-up. Then we all go in and join the rest of the family to catch up on everyone’s year and reminisce about years gone by.
We always get all the children together, (take turns and each others houses) and make our own gifts, ornaments, candy and cookies! It keeps the traditions passed down to the younger ones, and gives the adults a break from the chaos, since each adult hosts the kids once or twice a week!
Thank you for the great pattern.
I started a tradition of buying Christmas Crackers and filling them with fun things for different individuals in the family. They all look forward to seeing what I have found for them each year it is something unique. Some of the things have been a little heavy so when we popped a cracker open last year the little turtle I had inserted for my niece went flying into my drink, which was a good laugh, and sticky.
Having a large family get-together for dinner on Noche Buena (Christmas Eve).
Christmas Eve with the kids …. Opening our Christmas Eve boxes ….
My favorite tradition is kind of silly but I have continued it with my son. My mom and grandma always let my sister and I open one gift the night before Christmas. It was ALWAYS Christmas pajamas so that we would be in Christmas jammies for photos the next morning. So we were always excited to open a gift early and it was something we were going to get anyway. Great hack mom and grandma! Fyi it took probably until I was 12 before I actually knew what would be in my box. Smh 🙂
my favorite thing about Christmas is being able to share with the rest of the family and friend the enjoyment of Christmas and the wonderful Christmas sprite.
My favorite Christmas tradition has been something that I did when my children were small and I still enjoy it today. We drive around town and look at all the beautiful lights on the houses. Some of the displays are awe inspiring.
Whispering Merry Christmas at midnight to my mother and grandmother in heaven
I don’t celebrate christmas, I just like giveaways, as do several others. I can’t thing of anything we do as a tradition. It’s always wonderful to enjoy being together with family. Thanks for the chance at goodies.
The whole family goes and cuts trees at a local tree farm. Then we wait for the sun to start going down to go drive looking at Christmas decorations ending with fresh baked cookies and hot cocoa. YUM!
When I was little my grandpa use to take us out looking for sleigh tracks on xmax eve , it was absolutely amazing!!
My favorite christmas tradition is on thanksgiving- our kick of to christmas, when I was a kid we started watch Christmas Vacation every Thanksgiving- Even when we can’t all get together we still inform eachother we’ve watched it. I now watch Elf with my son, at least until he’s old enough to appreciate the griswolds
A few of my favorite things…making treats with my children, singing all the Christmas carols, definitely going to see the lights on the square and following it up with a tour of all the best lit houses in town and best of all being with all my family on Christmas Day! It’s always busy and an early day with cinnamon rolls and a huge buffet style breakfast and going to the grandparents’ homes and sharing our day with them. Love my family. I’m truly blessed!
So many traditions. Making tamales with the women in the family, baking, and Midnight Mass are my favourite traditions.
Watching fiddler on the roof with my grandpa.
My favorite Christmas tradition is making Christmas cookies with my family
Midnight Mass and playing games after Christmas dinner.
My favorite Christmas tradition is my family watches “A Christmas Story” on Christmas Eve night. We snack on Christmas candy and cookies and then open one present once the movie is over.
One celebration we so look forward to is our local Fire Department Christmas Party. We bake up a storm for the pot-luck and decorate the station and then have a wonderful meal with all of our colleagues. the White Elephant gift exchange is so enjoyable and brings many laughs among the competition!!
Thank you.
Patricia Hynson
My favorite tradition for the holidays is being gifted the honor of hosting our family dinners. My mom was always the one to bring everyone in the family together, and when she fell ill about 8 years ago, the tradition stopped for a couple of years due to her treatments. I love the look on my mothers face seeing my three little girls and knowing the traditions she taught and shared with us will continue through more generations.
Favorite tradition is !making Christmas cookies with my children and now grandchildren. As well as decorating with handmade pictures and ornaments.
Happy Holidays everyone! Im a new knitter just starting out. Ive been learning alot and really enjoy this site! Im working on Christmas stockings right now..Love the Afghan! !
Watching “White Christmas” by the light of the Christmas tree.
Watching a Xmas movie on Xmas eve with the fire on and a selection of nibbles !
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Filling the house with Christmas carols by singing with family and friends.
I’d love to win this crafty assortment! Fingers crossed. Thanks for the offer.
My favorite thing to do {my daughter started when she was about 7 years old she is now 32} is to bake a birthday cake for Jesus. After all that’s what Christmas is right? Jesus Birthday!
The best thing about Christmas is having my children and grandchildren together on Christmas day to celebrate the meaning of Christmas.
My favorite tradition is making candy and cookies and sharing with my family.
My favorite tradition is baking cookies and eating way too many of them.
I am always looking for new patterns and I love this granny square afghan….I’m writing the directions down and am going to make it whether I win or not for next year’s Christmas..don’t get me wrong I would love to win it ….so I’m going to wait and see what happens….thanks u
Picking out the tree
Our Christmas Craft Sale which we, as hospital auxiliary members, have spent months getting ready for. The money raised goes to the hospital to buy new and state-of-the-art equipment
I make cookies with the kids! They love seeing results!
My favourite Christmas tradition is going to the Christmas eve service at our church.
My favorite thing to do at Christmas is decorating the tree. My 2 daughters are in their 30s but I still have ornaments that they made as children and they are the first 2 decorations to go on the tree every year.
Once they are on the tree and before anything else is added I take a picture and send it to them so they know that the tradition is continuing.
I’m a volunteer shopper for a local Christmas charity each year. My own kids are grown up now, but I love finding toys & clothes for other children who otherwise might not get presents for Christmas. (And I’m often able to include a hand-crocheted item or two as well, such as a child-size afghan or doll clothes.)
Decorating the tree and recalling the memories of the ornaments especially the ones made by the children when they were young
My favorite Christmas tradition is making handmade gifts for my family. And then seeing their faces on Christmas morning when they open them as we get to spend the day together!
Building a fire and watching the small kids open presents, those are the greatest memories
Making presents. Crocheted, and other crafts, and making tasty treats for everyone.
My favorite Christmas tradition is Christmas Eve services and the wonderful Christmas music.
Good luck to the rest of the contestants.
My favorite family tradition is making hard candy. The family gets together around the kitchen table with xx-sugar, scissors, and lots of laughter. We make the candy and then give it away to friends that come to visit or our neighbors. We also donate some to local food banks and Church baskets for the needy.
I love the music and the tree in NYC
Baking and decorating gingerbread men with my kids.
There is nothing like going to church on Christmas Eve and to see the children with their eager and hopeful faces; it puts me in the true Christmas spirit more than anything else. However, staying up late to finish the last crochet project for a Christmas present while watching “Its a wonderful life” makes me smile in remembrance.
Decorating the Christmas tree with Christmas music playing and reminiscing about who gave us the ornament and when we got it!
My favorite Christmas tradition is the Christmas Carols on the Radio. I love the old standards and they remind me of when I was little, going to church with Mom and Dad and listening to my Dad sing those beautiful songs. I get goose bumps just thinking about his deep bass voice. Merry Christmas!
My favorite Christmas tradition is spending my son’s birthday which is Christmas Eve with my family and especially my children.
Cooking cookies for Santa and treats for the family with my son and taking plain sugar cookies and icing, sprinkles, etc to decorate them to my grandmother’s. All the nieces and nephews get to decorate their own cookies for Santa to take home with them!
For about five years now, I have made homemade gifts for family and friends. No more Christmas shopping except perhaps for more craft supplies. This has become my Christmas tradition and everyone is eager to see what they will get each year. I love making each person a personalized gift that no one else will wear, display or decorate with.
oyster stew on Charistmas morning!
Picking out or making a new ornament for the tree.
Watching the grandkids open their gifts!
When my family gets together on Christmas Eve and we celebrate the holiday by serving “feast of the seven fishes”. My Grandpa brought this tradition with him from Italy. The only day of the year that the whole family shares a meal together and celebrate the birth of Jesus.
Watching the grandkids open their gifts!!
Our family favorite thing is making chocolates. There are probably 15 different kinds we make a few are white chocolate covered pretzels and peanut butter balls. We share these with family and friends and sometimes give them as gifts.
my kids and i play christmas songs as we cut out, bake, and decorate hundreds of sugar cookies… then we wrap them up and give them out ! 🙂
We have only done it once so far (last year)…. but we will again this year also. Taking gifts to a local transitional living home and doing a gift wrapping party with the mothers there. Someone always helped me when I needed it.
My favor ate tradition for Christmas is putting up my nice Christmas tree.It shows off its magnificence with all its Christmas lights glowing in the dark.Every year we manage to add new one ment
s to add to the beauty of it all. Merry Christmas.
My favorite Christmas tradition is getting together with my extended family on Christmas Eve. We take turns hosting and we have a swedish smorgasbord. Someone dresses up as Santa for the youngest members.
My favorite Christmas tradition is making cards for my family and friends. Each card is different, to fit the person I’m sending it to.
Our favorite Christmas tradition is reading The Night Before Christmas to our grandchildren.
My favourite Christmas tradition is curling up on the couch with my kids under the afghans and reading the Night Before Christmas
Favorite Christmas tradition is going Christmas caroling
at the nursing homes in our town.
It puts such big smiles on the faces of the residents.
Wow this very nice work i would love to try this thank you for sharing a free pattern
my favorite tradition is decorating with my family
Here in the mountains we go out and cut down our tree. We always look for the underdog. Then we decorate it with things from nature and make that little underdog the most beautiful tree ever. This is our highlight of the season.
We watch all of the Christmas movies from our childhood as well.
My favorite Christmas traditions are (I have 2 of them) Putting up and decorating the Christmas tree, and crocheting my daughter a new stuffed animal or blanket to match our Christmas color theme for the year.
We love lighting up the house with lights!!
Merry Christmas !!
My favorite tradition is opening up our stockings. Mom always made sure we each had a toy to play with – even when we were grown adults. I remember my father on his knees, sending his remote controlled car over a homemade ramp…
my favorite tradition is that we get up early and after stockings are opened, we read the christmas story from the bible. i love the afghan shown – it reminds me of the ones my grandma made
My favorite things are to make gifts for family and spending time with family.
First, getting together and decorating the tree, and putting the presents under it. Second, getting together on Christmas day for a midday meal and to open presents and visit.
Just found this contest this morning {Dec. 1st} My 2 favorite things are: setting up the Nativity Set. My Mother made all the ceramic pieces, glazed them for all her children {there are 5 of us} .I also like decorating the tree. When my kids were small, we’d make a family evening out of it. Thanks for the free pattern !
My favorite Christmas tradition is the huge family party on Christmas Eve! Carols sung around the piano while my great aunt plays, food galore, family photos (3 and 4 generations worth), even a visit from Santa.
Would luv to try out this.
Decorating.
Family dinner on Christmas Day!
love to make hats and scarves for charity
Christmas ornament in crochet thread for gifts is my favorite traditon
I love putting Christmas cards from years past on the wall.
Crafting and baking with the kiddos! 🙂
every year I crochet Christmas presents for the family. This year it was hot pads and placemats. We also do bingo and we play it kind of like Dirty Santa, If someone has a gift that the person whose turn it is they can take it away from you or choose another gift. It is so fun.
My favorite Christmas tradition is on Christmas eve we have chili for our meal. We have been doing this since I was a kid and going to my grandmothers house for Christmas eve. We all had to eat everything before we could open presents. My grandma made the best chili.
Going shopping to fill up a Christmas box that will be sent to an orphandage
My mom’s cooking!
My favorite Christmas Tradition is spending it with my family.
Beyond the food and family together, beyond saying Merry Christmas to everyone on the street, beyond one large gift in a red kettle, beyond midnight church service, my favorite is reading the Christmas story from the Bible (same son, same Bible for over 30 years) and the youngest grandchild placing Baby Jesus in the manger.
My favorite Christmas tradition is the Christmas Eve ‘open house’ we have each year in the afternoon on Christmas Eve, with family and friends coming together to share memories and Christmas ‘cheer’!
Family getting together on Christmas Eve, nibbling on scrumptious appetizers while everyone opens one gift. Then we follow this with a surf & turf dinner and, afterwards, sit around the table chatting some more while we enjoy coffee and a variety of desserts. Finally, no one is allowed to leave without first taking a bag filled with assorted leftovers and sweets!
My favourite Christmas tradition is doing gingerbread houses with the children. Since all the children are so far away now, I bake the pieces, seal royal icing in disposable piping bags, package everything up extremely carefully, and Mail the fixings. This year it will just be my granddaughters getting packages, but I will be building a village for the local humane society to raffle off, too.
My favorite Christmas tradition has to be giving to those in need. As a family we offer to sit with the lonely or have them over for coffee, cocoa, and a treat. Right now I’m crocheting gifts.
Growing up, we had all of my family at my house on Christmas Day. We averaged between 30 to 50 people. Now most of my family members have passed on but I still enjoy time with family and friends. I celebrate Christ’s birth with joy!
Putting up the Christmas tree and making homemade gifts to give others.
Having a cup of hot chocolate with homemade rye bread, toasted, after we get our tree.
Opening stockings on Christmas Eve
My favorite Christmas tradition is the family gathering around the Christmas tree decorating it and singing Christmas carols. Now that the grandkid are here it makes it enjoyable to explain the meaning of all the ornaments. The afghan above reminds me of the granny square stocking my grandmother crocheted and still have a place on our tree.
Our favorite tradition is a seafood dinner on Christmas Eve followed by Midnight Mass, opening gifts Christmas morning around 10 AM, playing games, and enjoying a standing rib roast dinner with frozen jello salads, mashed potatoes, green beans, and dessert of sand tarts filled with cherry pie filling topped with whip cream and 18 variety of cookies.
My favorite Christmas tradition is gathering with extended family on Christmas Eve morning and making lefse – and of course the sampling of our labors.
Drawing a name from the extended family at Thanksgiving and giving that person a gift at Christmas.
My favorite thing about the holidays is being with the ones who really love and care about you for you, not for the expensive gifts you buy. The best gifts I have ever received are the ones that someone took the time to make for me.
My favorite christmas tradition is going over to grandparents house a day early to help with baking christmas dinner, and then the next day having the whole family get together to celebrate christmas and enjoy each others company.
Sitting around the Christmas tree listening to carols and reading aloud the birth of Jesus
I painted our windows when our kids were little. Mostly we had Christmas scenes I painted on the windows. However, we always saved one window in the front of the house that the kids picked out for the ‘Jesus window’. In that one I painted a birthday cake with the words ‘Happy Birthday Jesus”. Then to top things off we always had a ‘red cake’ with light green frosting and when it was cut we sang ‘Happy Birthday to Jesus”.
I love getting together with the entire family on Christmas morning for breakfast and opening gifts.
I love Christmas i make a lot of hats and scarf’s for the family for Christmas and they look forward to it every year. i am making the the peppermint afghan for my friend. Hope you have a wonderful Christmas.
Thanks for doing your give away yarn.
Beverly
My favorite Christmas tradition is getting together with my dad, all of my aunts, uncles, and cousins and eating, laughing, and just having a good time. I also like watching Christmas movies, including the classics, Frosty, Rudolph, The Santa Clause, etc. with my children.