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November 22, 2005
Karma
Last week I mailed out some stash redistribution boxes that I had been sitting on for a year. A move, several illnesses, and general laziness had me putting mailing them off for way too long. And I actually had the nerve to entertain bad thoughts about my SP. Not the spoilee but the spoiler. No box and we are into the third month. But once again the theory of Karma proves correct~ I received a box from my SP. Oh me what a wonderful package! Sweets galore to be nibbled along with some tea. Lovely yarn, a book, and two different sets of stitch markers in their own little tin. Wanna see?
First we have the yarn. A mystery hank of hand dyed very cushy wool. Worsted Weightish. And two balls of Lang Jawoll sock yarn picked up in Switzerland according to my SP. The sock yarn color rocks and has torn me from the knitting ennui hovering over Casa d'Elka. Really. I have been working on the same pair of socks since before Rhinebeck and in my enthusiasm to start in on these picked up needles for the first time in a week. Not for the soon to be new improved pair but for the old pair cause I have a secret pact with myself to not CO anything, other than work stuff, til my WIP list has been destroyed. Thank you thank you thank you thank you SP.
Here is the new improved edition of Jacqueline Fee's Sweater Workshop. I had mentioned it as a book I wanted to add to my collection. I actually used to own the first edition and parted with it when a desperate knitter asked. I mean I bought the thing in the 80's and it had been in my library for close to 20yrs. The yarn cacoon, shown earlier in the blog, come from this book and is included in the newest edition. One reason I parted with the book is because all the sweaters are raglans and I have yet to knit myself one. Still I always vowed to knit the sampler and try a raglan so here I have a new edition to work my way through. Thumbing through this book was a real stroll on memory lane. I remember, as a newer adult knitter, driving all over the NE coast and popping into Fish and Tackle shops for the ring markers she suggests. I think I even have the fabric purchased to make the needle roll.....
The tin is kinda hidden at top of picture but it is white with some flowers scattered all over. Just in time I tell you. I was thinking of buying myself some Altoids to house my stitch marker collection. Of course the lemon sour Altoids~ forget the mints they are too, too curiously strong and the gum is just plain ugh~ house my coilless pins so there is always the risk that I grab the wrong tin and find myself with pins instead of markers or vice versa. Anyway I appreciate the new markers and their tin. Thanks much SP
TTFN~ happy knitting
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