I received two great packages recently - one of my own doing, and one that was a wonderful surprise! First, I received a wonderful package from Lisa for the Knitter's Review exchange. She sent me a copy of Fair Isle Knitting by Sarah Don (a great book, and Scott likes it because he thinks the boy on the cover looks like him when he was a boy), some cute knitting thank-you cards, (some chocolate - covered coffee beans that couldn't be photographed due to them being, um, in my stomach), and most awesome...some locally grown (sheared?) and spun wool that she dyed herself!! It's a pretty pinkish-coralish color and will look very nice on me once I get it knitting up into a nice hat (or mittens, or wristwarmers, or...I can't decide!) Thanks Lisa!!
Next up is the long-awaited Swift. It's a big-un, but doesn't take up quite as much room as Scott had feared. I took advantage of it right away to wind some wool I bought at the Studio sale. 
The result? A ball of wool that required no tears, four-letter words, or declarations of hatred towards knitting in general. The wool, incidentally, is Briggs and Little Regal 100% wool. It's a nicely priced, minimally-processed, light-worsted wool spun in Canada. I'm really looking forward to knitting with it (and I *do* have a plan for this yarn).
3 comments:
Lookie there...you get to have your cake and knit with it, too!!
I love to come home to packages! It looks like (on the monitor) the yarn you received is really a "Linda color". I can't wait to see it! I think I now have big wooden swift envy - mine is much smaller.
Congrats on the new swift! I love mine...I just want to create yarn cakes all day long!
P.S. You're IT! (See my Jan. 28th post) http://fortheloveofyarn.blogspot.com/2008/01/im-it.html
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