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a surprise present! for me!

By Stef | January 11, 2010

So… 

My close friend Lee , the knitting queen, recently wrote a blog post referencing my fit of I-don’t-know-what-to-do-with-this-Get-it-out-of-my-house. 

I had given her a bag full of Blue Heron Silk Rayon yarn, in various stages of knittedness.  The back story here is that I had splurged on this yarn for my birthday, intending to knit a sweater for myself.  I knit the sweater, only to find that it weighed 500 lbs and made me look like a colorful potato.

I carefully unraveled the sweater, balled it up, and proceeded to knit another sweater, this time in a lacy pattern.  Sweater #2 looked fine for about one minute, before gravity pulled it down to the earth.  Disaster!

So…I was unwilling to give this yarn a third chance.  In fact, I blame this yarn for some of my reluctance to knit.  (Another large portion of my reluctance to knit comes from a beautiful bag of handspun yarn that Keith spun from a sheep we knew - absolutely precious.  I knit this yarn into two unfortunate sweaters for Keith.  It currently resides in a bag in my attic.) 

(Oh, and I’m not even going to talk about the next year’s birthday splurge sweater - knit from beautiful alpaca and Cascade yarn…this is still in sweater form, but just barely.  Do you know how HOT a sweater knit from doubled strands of thick alpaca is? )

So.  I’m a yarn destroyer and there is a point after which yarn is reluctant to play nice.  The Blue Heron yarn was reaching that point, so I thought it would be best to provide a good home for it.  Lee, the best knitter I know, was the perfect person to adopt the yarn.

I thought the yarn was gone for good.

However, Lee surprised me last week with the most wonderful gift.  She was able to tame the yarn and whip it into something beautiful.  A wrap.  For me!!  I’m so grateful.

Here’s a picture of the wrap with a copper closure that Keith made.  I think they look very nice together (please excuse the poor quality of the picture).

blue-heron-wrap-02

Thank you, Lee!  I really appreciate your patience and the time it took you to knit this beautiful wrap.

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2 Responses to “a surprise present! for me!”

  1. Keith Says:
    January 12th, 2010 at 6:47 am

    “colorful potato” - BWAHAHAHA! It sounds like a dish from a hallucinogenic meal: magic mushrooms, electric Kool-Aid, and colorful potato… table for two, please. :-)

  2. Lee Says:
    January 13th, 2010 at 12:51 pm

    I want to join you for that meal!

    I’m glad you like it — the closure looks really nice with it..

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