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All of the sudden it's almost December and I'm a little stressed.  I haven't even made a Christmas list yet for me or either of my children and aunties are clamoring. Of course I'm soooo easy to shop for so mine won't take long (fabric? hellooow?).

If you live in SE Michigan, you do not want to miss the ultrahip Detroit Urban Craft Fair. It's this Saturday and Sunday (Dec 4/5) at the Fillmore in downtown Detroit. Karen has graciously allowed me to sit at the Patterns By Figgys table Saturday afternoon in exchange for some manual labor stuffing sewing patterns, so I'll be there too, doing my durndest to fit in and look like a hipster (do I need a new piercing? or just a new tortured look?), because I am nothing if not a wallflower. Heeeeeeee.  So do your Christmas shopping at DUCF this year and stop by the Patterns by Figgy's table and say hi, OK?

By the way, DUCF is where my seester Kricket bought the awesome "Detroit loves you" sweatshirt for E last year that he wears all. the. time.

If you'd rather make a gift, don't forget about the snowblossom hat tutorial!  Zaaberry made this great BOY version of the Snowblossom Hat along with an easy duh-why-didn't-I-think-of-that way to get rid of that pesky front seam. Visit her post for her modifications and pictures of quite possibly the most adorable child in the universe wearing it. Awesome, I say!

A few of you have emailed me your versions of the Basic Newborn Pants ( free tutorial found here) that are superadorbs. Take a look at these two sweet pairs in gingham, this one from katie at Notes from a very red kitchen:

and this one from somthinsomthin:

The first pair wasn't quite long enough for her 6-month old babe, so she made a few modifications to the pattern, and voila! 

Cute patches too, right? And how cute is this teeny tiny pair with the grommet from Mirjam of ZoHappy?

awww!

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Finally, there is not much sweeter than hearing Junior Asparagus singing "For unto us a child is born." I have been listening to the VeggieTales Christmas album (MP3 download FREE from Amazon, thanks to seester Elli for the link) on repeat all afternoon. Go snag yourself a copy!