My parcel from Canada is here! I am soooo excited! Thank you, Sarah, this is the most beautiful gift I ever saw. First there are the mittens: gorgeous. A very nice star-pattern with a special border. I must get that book you used. And of course the colors are just for me. I love how you gradually changed the different reds. They must have been so much work.
Then there is a pattern for mittens “Bird in Hand” which in the past weeks I several times almost bought! And the wool for them, brown and a warm yellow. The brown is my very first skein of Cascade 220. Not a big deal for all of you over there in North America, but for me it’s something special to have the yarn in my hands which everybody talks about in those podcasts. Just like Wollmeise or something European for you.
And finally all the other goodies in there. Sarah knew I lived in Canada for some time so she made up a kind of anti-homesickness-survival-until-the-next-holiday-kit for me: maple sirup, maple spread (this of course is my favourite!), candy in the cutest little beaded box and three adorable keyholders: two mounties, a bear and a moose, and a woodworker-moose.
I love, love, love everything. Thank you!
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YAY! I'm glad you got everything intact in one piece. That package has been through airport luggage and (at least) two other countries.
I'm so happy that you love the mittens. I guess they were kind of complicated, but it was so much fun to do. They are my most favourited project on Ravelry, on my Flickr AND in my knitting group here in Montreal. They were even nominated for Most Colourful Project of 2007! Wear them with pride!
-Sarah
I will!
I looooooove these mittens. I saw them in her Ravelry projects. (Going back to check to see if the yarn info is in there bcause i want to duplicat them as closely as i can. I LOVE the colors!
Also, I completely get the Cascade 220 thing. I SCORED my first two hanks of Wollmeise Sock Yarn last night in Loopy Ewe's sneak up!!! (Yayyyyyyyyy - I'm slightly obsessed with Sock yarn!!!)
Maybe I can buy you Cascade 220 and mail it to you and you can send me Wollmeise.
Hey Sarah, I got nominated for funniest ravatar. :) Congratulations!
Hrm, I guess I'll have to dig through the box of yarn labels to get all the different brands/colours on the Ravelry page for you. Mostly Briggs & Little Sport, but a bunch of others too...
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