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Merry Christmas! I have made Christmas stockings for my family. # 37 & #38 this year. I picked a basic pattern and made each one different. The recipe is on Ravelry as "Basic Christmas Stocking". I also gave ornaments to my husband and children each year. The kids took theirs when they left home, but I have many ornaments with sheep or trains on them.

Merry Christmas, Friends! Much love to you both! Can’t wait to see what 2025 brings for you!

Hello, Ned. Nice to put a face to your name.

As a cat lover, I really love your cat ornaments.

Merry Christmas, guys. I hope you have a wonderful time x ❤

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !!! Your patchwork quilt is very beautiful, I fell in love with it.

Merry Christmas! Love, love your video and you both are such a cute couple!!! Thank you for sharing your beautiful videos!

I was wondering what sweater you're wearing? It so good. Love your ornaments, thanks for sharing, Merriest of Christmases! ❤❤❤

What fun. Thank you.

Thank you so much for sharing❤️

You both are awesome humans, thank you for sharing!

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Didn’t know you had such a connection to CT!

Hi from Slovakia ❤ I'm showing it to my mum and she asked me to write a small suggestion - it would be great if you show in a video a number of a row in the raverly manual during the knitting. But thanks a lot anyway! ❤

Hi Mark and Ned, thank you so much for sharing these things with us - you brightened up my Christmas morning! I hope you will have a wonderful Christmas and a good start to the new year. All happiness to you two and the cats!

Happy Christmas and New Year to you both! You have a lovely home, thanks for sharing it with us.

Lovely video!A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year full joy!🌲☃️❄️🧶

Wishing you two beautiful people the best of festive seasons from here in Shetland!! This was a fabulous video. Such beautiful ornaments and wonderful cats!! My husband and I have a lovely ginger cat called Teddy. He's terribly shy and sleeps most of the time. He was 9 this last September. Have a super time guys xx

Merry Christmas you two - beautiful tree skirt - great job(Im also a quilter) love the Christmas bells and cat ornaments - - love the leg lamp - part of our every Christmas movie watching !! I was the mother that screamed when “that word” was used (can you tell my age)LOL. Great video - have a wonderful day!!Merry Christmas!!

Thank you for sharing your beautiful ornaments - very special! Best wishes to both of you and your loved ones for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 🎁🎄🥂🎉🎶💕🤗

Thank you so much for sharing you favourite ornaments and the stories behind them. Lovely to see Ned and all the furry family members as well! Have a lovely holliday. God Jul!🥳

Merry Christmas 🎄. The presents have been opened, the lunch eaten, the afternoon nap succumbed too. The day is winding down here in NZ. It's been a hot fine day here so we were able to enjoy a light summer lunch ... ham, boiled baby potatoes, lettuce salad, Pavlov and berries ... around the outdoor table. It's been lovely winding down listening to your memories and stories. Having stories behind the ornaments makes it so special to put the tree together. I spent 2 years in Hungary so have some lovely ornaments from that time that I love putting out each year. Thanks for sharing yours with us. Have an awesome Christmas Day.

I watched this four hours ago, middle of the night, in England. I and my family are dealing with a serious illness in one of us. As the matriarch I feel I should be able to 'fix' things. But I can't, not this time. However, I smiled all through your video. The love and warmth and joy in pretty things shone through and touched me. I managed to sleep a bit and now it's morning and I can face this Christmas Day. Thank you Mark and Ned. Pauline C. in Devon. xx

Thank you, what a lovely Christmas Eve gift! If your cats climb the tree I found a fix (I adopted a feral rescue kitten). Take fruit tree netting (that gardeners use to keep birds away from fruit). Wrap this around the trunk and abt 1/2 way out each limb up to about 3’. Lizzie never climbed a Christmas tree again, not for the lack of trying each year. All my ornaments from the floor to about 3’ are cat safe. Breakables etc are up higher. Be sure to put a red bird on your tree. The Japanese consider it good luck! Merry merry Christmas!

Fun to see your collection. I went to William & Mary, so I know what you mean about Colonial Williamsburg!

You guys are the best Thank you for sharing and thinking of us 🎄 ❤

Merry Christmas from a surprisingly mild Banff Scotland. I hope you Ned and your fur babies have an amazing day. Thank you for your wonderful videos and great knowledge. Here is to an amazing 2025

I love listening to your thoughts and planning 😊. Merry Christmas, dear Mark! (Dec 25th, 2024)

Merry Christmas guys!

Merry Christmas to you both! What a lovely cosy video. Loved seeing your collection of Christmas decor. And I’ll join the other commenters above that I too had a cat that lived to be 21. He had many chronic health problems, including diabetes, but he still had a great quality of life right up to the end, so I hope you have Big Cat for years to come. Love seeing the kitties always in your videos. Looking forward to next year’s new content! A happy and healthy New Year to us all!

Merry Christmas to you both! What a lovely cosy video. Loved seeing your collection of Christmas decor. And I’ll join the other commenters above that I too had a cat that lived to be 21. He had many chronic health problems, including diabetes, but he still had a great quality of life right up to the end, so I hope you have Big Cat for years to come. Love seeing the kitties always in your videos. Looking forward to next year’s new content! A happy and healthy New Year to us all!

Merry Christmas to you both. Thank you for sharing your life through your ornament collection. I did cat rescue for over 25 years. I had several cats that lived into their twenties. Missy was documented through vet records to be 23. So hopefully you will have Big Cat for many years to come.

Merry Christmas Mark & Ned!

Very Merry Christmas Mark and Ned! I just realized that I am knitting the cardigan version of Ned's sweater! 😊

I love this video!!! I have saved and cataloged my ornaments from childhood to now. Merry merry Christmas to both of you!!

I just started watching and have to stop and share the tangent you kind gents have now placed in my head: "In Hartford, **Hereford**, and Hampshire ... hurricanes hardly ever happen." Love it!

Watching this video has brought back so many memories for me. Years ago, we had 2 cats. They were unrelated but each lived to be 20 years old. One was blind and diabetic (I learned to give a cat insulin shots) and the other had a heart condition. So I will keep my fingers crossed for Big Cat to carry on a little longer for you. Merry Christmas to you all.

Merry Christmas!! Thanks for the company =)

I didn’t know it when I began watching but I did need the company and I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Merry Christmas to you both and thank you for sharing! ❤

Thanks for keeping me company on Christmas Eve. I wish you both a wonderful Christmas ❤

Merry Christmas 🎄 to you Two also 🤗from Montréal,Québec ❤

Happy Christmas 🎄 from Brazil 🇧🇷 <Feliz Natal>🐕🐈‍⬛🐈

I loved seeing your collection of ornaments. It’s very eclectic, but tells a cohesive and personal story. Wishing you both a very happy holiday season. Looking forward to what you have in store for us in 2025! ~Brenda

Thank you for sharing! A great way to spend Christmas Eve!

Dear Mark, Ed, and pussy-cats Merry Christmas from Edmonton Alberta Canada! + Happy New Year!

My favorite videos are the ones with both of you together. Thank you for the nice audio .....awesome tree guys. I am smiling now😊

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What a fun video! Thank you for posting. I love your kitties little paw beans :) Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to you both! Our tree ornaments are a reflection of pop culture for our sons each year (Magic School Bus, Thomas the Tank Engine, Jimmy Neutron, Homer Simpson, Spiderman, Batman, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Clark Griswald, etc.), plus a French Horn for my older son. But one of their favorites is a talking ornament that has the entire "Who's on First" skit with Abbott and Costello figures, plus ornaments of each of The Three Stooges.