Great apple windfall. I don’t peel my apples for apple sauce just quarter them. After cooking I run the sauce through the shredding plate of the food processor.

Jana.... i watched football today also! Great outcome for my team... live in KC metro, so watched Chiefs win again! Love your socks... such fun colors!

Thanks Anne and Jana. Glad you are going to use all the yarn for your socks. Seeing all the colors in the stripes will be great.

Merry Christmas! Now I am so curious about Crackling Oat Bran cereal, I need to go find it! 😅 Jana - an apple “windfall” - I laughed so hard! Enjoy those apples! So glad they won’t go to waste!

Just love watching the two of you together, doing vlogmas. Thank you for doing this every day again this year!!

Have you ever tried "Puppy Chow" with Kracklin' Oat Bran? It's SOOOOO good. You can find recipies online. Blessings for whatever you celebrate. Much love ❤🎁🎄

You two - such a treat all month - Merry Cracklin’ Christmas to you both. Happy Holidays to your families ~ I can’t imagine how much work the month takes for you both to do this for all of us - but selfishly hoping it continues. ❤

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah, Anne and Jana! Enjoyed my Christmas morning cup of coffee while watching you. So fun!

Happy Cracklin' OB Day! My husband got me s 500-pc wooden jigsaw puzzle made from my photo of "Jimmy Perez's house" in Lerwick, Shetland. ❤ The cats and I can work on it in front of the fire in between knitting moments.

Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄

Merry Christmas!! 🎄 You ladies are making me hungry!! Everything sounds delicious!! 😋 Stewed apples are good to, Jana. Apple Butter, oh how delicious.

I’m going to miss you ladies each morning. Have a very Merry Christmas 🎄🎁

Merry Christmas 🤶 🎄 🎅 I have been eating Cracklin Oat Bran for years. I love that stuff.

APPLE BUTTER!!!!!!

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and all the best Season’s Greetings! Cracklin Oat Bran is AMAZING! It does look a tiny bit like dog food, but tastes incredible. Sitting here in between cooking and wrapping for afternoon gathering seaming a Marie Wallin cowl as a gift for my sister-in-law. Aiming to cast on another Frame Your Face Cowl later today. Enjoy everyone!

Colon Blow 😂😂😂😂

Jana you could make apple chips with the skins in an airfryer

Cranberry apple salad/sauce.

Merry Christmas! This was a nice way to spend my morning at the hotel before heading out for the day. I am in VT and my sister in law has so many apples from her tree. We had applesauce at Thanksgiving and will have more today. I will need to ask her about apple cider vinegar and apple butter. With the apples that drop and are bruised, they bring them to a local bear sanctuary where bears are rehabbed. Some are orphaned and some are hurt. So many apples, enjoy!

Have fun canning not in the heat of summer. Apple butter is the BEST!

Morning, enjoyed the friend-vent. Have a fun day relaxing with knitting and family ❤

My chicken keeping friends say No Apple Seeds for chickens. (Cyanide). We make 5 gal hootch from wild apples every year. Yum. I hereby admit that I understood the 2025 color to be Moca Moose and only just figured out that it’s probably Moca Mousse. (I had been working with local dyer’s yarn from Monk and Moose Fiber Co - my excuse). Merry Christmas! Pancakes and sausage breakfast here. Thank you!!

Merry Christmas. I hope you have a great day. I can confirm that Uphouse Crafts aka me, did make the gift bag and book mark. Enjoy the rest of your day xxx

Merry Christmas. Will have to try the Cracklin Oat Bran. Have a great day.

I've looked up how to pronounce chiao goo, and have seen chaw goo and chow goo. I'm more sure which is the right way. 🤷‍♀️

Now I have to try garbanzo dip; that sounds so good.

Crackling oat bran isn’t available where I am in Oz. Xmas is done! Stuffed and going to bed. Enjoy your day guys!

I can't wait to use mine.

I am up early too, baking bread for dinner later, muffins for part of breakfast. Thinking about those apples, and goats... what I have done at applesauce time is dehydrate some of the apple cores for goat treats.

Something about joining you guys at the "crack of dawn" throughout advent has given me energy to carry on each day, and comfort when all isn't falling into place. I am grateful for your endurance and thankful for your sense of humor. Merry Christmas.

I love those sweet ovals!

Amazon ?

Still haven't been able to find the Cracklin' Oat Bran, not in the small town we lived in in the US nor in the Netherlands, so I will continue to dream. So Jana, what is Will's amazing hummus recipe, inquiring minds want to know?

Continental knitter here. How do I cheat that purlstitch?

This method does not appear to work for the knit only fisherman rib pattern..

I’ve made many of these clogs and one trick I found to make the sole thicker is to -instead of holding the yarn double- knit one strand using Navajo Ply, which makes it three strands of yarn instead of two.

Love your videos! Janna, I've had many years of navigating holidays with future in-laws, in-laws, exes who have custody of the children on holidays....it's heart breaking at first. But then you get pragmatic, and roll with it. You learn to be grateful for the time you have with them, and if it doesn't coincide with the actual holiday, that's ok. Just means you can put your feet up and not cook! lol. Trust me.

So a question on yarn types. I'm not a huge fan of wool, it always feels so rough to me. I'm planning to use either some super soft bamboo yarn or some 100% cotton, (not mercerized) and I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts, advice, red flags to wave, anything. Also, if anyone is wondering I plan to do a mismatched set of socks. That's typically 4 or 6 socks that have similar colors and similar patterns so they can go together, but are not identical and so are considered "mismatched." They are my favorite! 😊😊

I'm right there with you Jana. I live in N. Colorado, and it's dry as a bone. It's in the 50's every day . Supposed to snow on Christmas day, but not sure I'm buying it. 😮

What a fun way to start Christmas Eve!!!

As a mom to littles who is sometimes in that “touched out” phase, sending hugs to you as your big kiddos are off living their dreams as you raised them to - motherhood certainly pulls the heartstrings in all directions.

Thank you! I have always thought it's me who is doing something wrong with my left leaning decreases, and now I will try it this way. Many Thanks and Merry Christmas to you

What fun about the game Code. I love the socks Jana. ❤

The cats have started their investigations of paper, boxes, and ribbons. Your knitting projects look wonderful! Anne, I'd been guessing a tea cozy for a while, but you'd need an awfully tall teapot at this point! Jana, I'm behind on my stripes, but it's okay; a delay in the gift matters not. Happy 24th!

I think most larger families have loud people. We were always the loud family.

I’ve enjoyed following along this Advent season. 🎄

Thank you for making my busy morning more enjoyable, wrapping last minute stocking gifts!

No frozen nose hairs here, but it is cold and wet. :/ Woodstove-worthy wooly weather! Thank you! Merries and happies!!

Thank you both for a month of smiles and giggles 😂 Happy Christmas from 🇨🇦🌲