Gifts & Ingenuity …
Oh, how I’ve missed my knitting! Oh, how I love these Secret Pal exchanges!
First up, my Secret Pal sent such a thoughtful and nice package! SP knows that I have problems with wool and went above and beyond trying to find fibers that wouldn’t bother me. These yarns are wonderful to touch and great colors for me. (Ignore the KnitPicks sock yarn in the back … that’s something else.) I’ve got several little ideas floating around for what I’ll do with them … Oh, and the chocolate. My word, the chocolate. This organic Dagoba stuff is just wonderful. You’re only seeing the outer wrapper because I’ve already mauled what was inside it. (I actually just stopped typing to go break off another chunk of it.) I love the little pampering smellish stuff, too, and the tape measure is just the sort of frivolous thing I love but don’t buy for myself. Thank you, SP!
The bottom picture is what we should call “Necessity”. I am bored out of my skull reading all these textbooks and I keep casting longing glances at my yarn basket. So last night I dug through the remaining boxes I have in the living room — the unpacking is going slowly — and found my cookbook holder. Presto change-o, Bob’s your uncle, and I’ve got a textbook reading stand while I knit away at a pattern I’ve got memorized or doesn’t involve pattern-watching. Can I just tell you what a relief that is? I got through almost an entire week’s worth of reading last night because my fingers and enough of my brain were distracted so that I could focus. Never mind that Bismarck will be associated with Clapotis and variegated yarn in my brain forevermore …
