Last year, and this year, I pledged to make everyone something handmade. I almost made it, except for my colleagues at work. The problem with handmade stuff is that it’s really difficult to make something for the men. Unless they really love socks. A lot.
Here’s what I made for my mother’s partner. Photographs are always a safe bet, and I figure they don’t mind what kind of frame they come in anyway. So I knit one. It was pretty easy. Even though I kind of felt like a knit picture frame is the sort of thing you see in in the fixed-rent apartment of an ancient maiden aunt.
The pattern came from a Ravelry user.
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/photo-frames
I used a picture from a hike the three of us went on the last time they last came to visit taken with my cell phone. The result:
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