And this very pretty little package contained, some very pretty yarn.
This is KnitPicks Alpaca Cloud in Tide Pool, sent to me by Amy, who also enclosed a very nice card and quite a hefty load of sugar. That's a woman after my own heart, I'll tell you. You know, knitters are like no other people in the world. I've never met Amy. She came to my blog to enter a contest, and stayed. One day while reading my lace knitting adventures, Amy mentioned that she had three skeins of lace weight alpaca that she would send me if I wanted them. I did, so she did.
She sent yarn to a total stranger. Free.
Hang around in the knitting world long enough and you will see that this is not unusual. Not among knitters. We are like no other people in the world.
So, while the new yarn was getting acquainted with the other lace weight stash (and a ball of sock yarn that is just passing through),
I worked on a new sock.
The pattern is Falling Leaves, and the yarn is Crystal Palace Panda Cotton in Chocolate Almonds colorway. The pattern is written to be toe up, but I'm doing it cuff down. I'm calling these my Fallen Leaves Socks. Saturday Sky looked like this part of the day, but it rained off and on all day.
The plan was to get up and go on a photo safari for today, to try to get more items from the Summer Photo Project list. I just couldn't motivate myself to get going, and the rain provided me a perfect excuse to stay home and do nothing.
So that's what I did.
Nothing.
6 comments:
I totally agree! Once you wade through a few yarn snobs and technique snobs, the *vast* majority of knitters (and crocheters!) are some of the nicest, most generous, most down to earth folks who love to meet new people. Yay, knitters! :-)
It may be knitters who are such good people. Then again, it could be people from OK are just friendly.
Sus, That is so true!
Lou, while I agree that people from OK are very friendly, this level of generosity is not limited to them alone. I once had a lady from England send me a pattern--totally free, she even paid for the postage --because I had seen it on a British website and was unable to find it over here. I mentioned on a knitting forum how much I loved that pattern and how disappointed I was that it was unavailable in the U.S., and she said, "I've got an extra one. I'll send it to you." And she did. Just like that.
Fun care package!
I'm glad it got there safely. I know you will make something beautiful with it. I, on the otherhand, would have just made a mess.
Gorgeous laceweight! I'm sure you'll make something beautiful with it.
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