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47!! no wonder you're the GIFT horseWhat can I say? I'm a crazy woman.  Seriously, it sounds like you are being much more realistic about gift-giving than I. My hat is off to you. My new mantra: Less is more, less is more, less is more...(repeat)....
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well, we like to try to give something to everyone, but make things rather than buying. so my wife and the boys made more than 40 small candles, and my wife baked more than 20 loaves of bread. between family, and the boys' teachers, and friends and colleagues, it adds up very quickly!
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...more than 40 small candles, and my wife baked more than 20 loaves of bread...Great job! You do realize the Martha in me takes this as a direct challenge. One year I made 13 Irish Fishermen's afghans. It was a lot of hard work, but really worth the time and energy. I had such fun watching my family open their presents. My ideal Yule would be to make every gift; each beautiful, functional and as individual as the person. Oh, for a perfect world with all the time I need. *sigh* Keep up the good work, etaoin. You and your family are an inspiration to a slacker like me. 
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thanks, gh. if you notice, I said my wife and the boys made.... all I do is sit back and rake in the compliments...
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Irish Fishermen's afghans
I've got to ask, what is an Irish Fishermans Afghan? I'm getting some sort of fisherman's jumper, an Irish one possibly (is there a special kind?-- I thought they were just sort of a-national jumpers, or should that be universal?), but the Afghan part has me totally flummoxed, I'm trying to figure it out but my mind is full of flum. Please tell me. [question-e]
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I would suspect it's the design: cables and such like.
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An afghan is a blanket, usually smaller than what you'd put on your bed under the spread. A lot of people drape them over the back of the couch.
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Rembers of troy's post about fisherman's sweaters, so varied in technique the home island of a drowned sailor could be known by his sweater?
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afghans, ('rugs', or lap blankets, that are often hand knit or crocheted) are very popular here in US. most homes have one or more... some times they are jacquard woven designs, but many, many folk, who don't otherwise knit or crochet, make afghans--(i have 2 i have knit, and i have given dozens away-- but not like gifthorse, all in one year!)--even my ex made a point of snaring one of the household afgans when we got divorced, and his nieces, (the dear little gold diggers) made a point of grabbing the one i made for my in-laws when their house hold was being 'dismantled'(my M-I-L, knit, but thought afghans to be too big a project, and ex S-I-L doesn't knit) the little gold digger grabbed the afgan before she had completed grabbing all the silver!--to put the desirerabilty into a frame of reference--and to be honest, the afghan was nice, but not an award winner by any means! i know from my knitting sites, afghans/lap blankets/rugs (as my nana always called them) are not nearly as popular in UK--which is amazing, since with central heating, they are almost unneeded here, and would actually serve a function in UK!-- but there are some UK knitters who design and knit them.. one of my favorite sites is: http://www.woollythoughts.comthey have wonderful designs (and besides, their afghans are rather mathmatically designed!)
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