It's been kinda like Christmas around here, what with all my, ahem, yarn purchases showing up, along with gifts I ordered for my husband's birthday, and then today... well, today I got home to find a giant box hidden under our porch - the final package from my Secret Pal!
And, well, wow! I'm actually sort of speechless, so here are a few pictures.
The giant box, filled with goodies...
Everything unwrapped! The two books are Sew What! Skirts and The Yarn Girls' Guide to Kid Knits - perfect!
I literally gasped out loud when I opened the first yarn package - Brooks Farm Duet and in beautiful variegated blues. It isn't handspun (although it is hand-dyed) but it has a handspun look due to the way the kid mohair is plied with the wool - I've been searching handspuns for something like this! And I also got 2 skeins of Malabrigo in Verdeazul - I have a couple of single skeins of Malabrigo that I haven't knit with yet but this will give me some more choices for bigger projects, plus I just know I'm going to be addicted to this lovely soft yarn and all the gorgeous colors it comes in so this is a good addition to my collection. (I'm not sure why the Malabrigo photo came out so badly - I'll have to try again.)
But the real jewel of the package in terms of sheer GENIUS is this amazing gift, a "yarn tasting box":
I'm still in complete awe - I wish I'd thought of this!!! The Stash and Burn ravelry group has this great thing called "would you like to try" where people offer up yarn leftovers for free so other people can try them, but this takes that concept to a whole new level. I love gifts that are personal, creative, beautiful and useful all at the same time and this falls into all those categories. It's not only a great concept but presented so well - I feel like I received a jewel box! It is so pretty and I can't wait to try some of the yarns... of course I am trying to think of a project that could use all of them or some of them rather than just knitting swatches, and frankly it's tempting to just keep it as it is but that would defeat the purpose.
Speaking of which, there is even more to this box... it is a scavenger hunt for me to figure out the identity of my secret pal!!! She has made projects with all of these yarns and they are all on Ravelry... what better excuse to spend more time on Ravelry?!!! In fact, that is where I am headed right now.
Thank you secret pal! I will figure out your identity soon...!
YAY!!! I am so glad you liked everything! I had *so* much fun putting together that box - I actually took a picture of it before I wrapped it - that's how much I liked making it. LOL. You did very well with the scavenger hunt - I'm impressed at how quickly you figured it out. It's been an especially great SP round!
Posted by: Robin | Thursday, October 02, 2008 at 09:56 AM