Yesterday I received a most wonderful piece of mail from my no-longer-secret pal. Let me introduce Emily.
She composed a rather special package for me. I can have a Violet Bath to enhance Beauty, Creativity and Inspiration while drinking some lovely tea (intaba Rooibos or Double Spice Chai from Stash) and munching some licorice.
On the yarn-front I must say that she has found the softest angora yarn that has ever entered my home. It’s 300 yards of 2-ply angora from Cottage Craft Angora. The colour is a two-tone raspberry – the photo doesn’t make it justice at all – just imagine a very rich, incredibly soft raspberry. Mmmm. Once I’ve turned it into some lace (I must find a very special pattern for it though….) I can give it a bath too in some Soak Wash – special wash for fine fibers. I receved three lovely packages of soak, in citrus, flora and “celebration” scent.
To help me keep track of my lace patterns, she also sent me a set of stitch markers (Learn, Enjoy, Together, Discover, Love). I’ve heard they’re most useful. Actually, while I was knitting the Faux Russian Stole last summer, I really wished I had a few. I was using my ubiquitous scrap yarn, but sometimes it fell out, and sometimes I knit past it for a few rows, and had to move it up to the current row (counting all the while so it didn’t move to the wrong place). These will keep me more organized, I’m sure.
Last, but not least, I received my very own copy of “At Knit’s End” by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, aka the Yarn Harlot. I’m learning all sorts of things already. Apparently husbands do not enjoy being woken up in the middle of the night to share in knitting triumphs.
Actually, I saved the very best for last…. Last night, while settling in to see what purls of wisdom my new book might contain I discovered:
I’m normal!
Thank you!
