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CATWKS received!

20 January 2008

My Christmas Around The World Knitters Swap parcel finally arrived!!!

My pal, Jennifer, mailed it from the US on December 14th, and instead of taking about two weeks (allowing a little extra for Christmas) it took about a month! My opinion is that the box arrived in Melbourne around Christmas/New Year and that it's been sitting in quarrantine waiting to be processed. I guess like many in Australia in January, they had lots of staff take their annual holidays *sigh*. I know it went to quarantine, because unfortunately they took out the pine sachet that Jennifer had included, but I still got to smell it when I opened the box.

Check out the riot of red/white goodies that Jennifer sent...

Candy canes, KnitPicks DPNs, a gorgeous stitchmarker, a sachet of SOAK (which I've been dying to try), CookieA's Mona sock pattern, some peppermint bark (absolutely delicious) and a skein of Mountain Colors Bearfoot in the, very pretty, Ruby River colourway. The Bearfoot is divine. How did she know that I've been searching for a wonderful red sock yarn? The last skein I ordered online turned out to be really pink (ugh!)

Jennifer knitted me a beautiful scarf. It's an ode to the candy cane and is a lovely crisp white and an glorious vibrant red. The yarn even has little glass candies in it!

Many thanks for my wonderful red and white Christmas swap package Jennifer. Thanks for all the time and effort that went into putting it together for me. I love it. It was definitely worth the wait!

Labels: CATWKS, CookieA, goodies, Knit Picks, Mountain Colors, sock pattern, sock yarn, stash, swaps, thanks

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Yummy Yarns

17 October 2007

Recently, my good friends J and S gave me a gift certificate to THE LOOPY EWE!!!

I umm-ed and ahh-ed for awhile (so many beautiful colourways, how do you choose?) before ordering...

2 skeins of ShibuiKnits in the "Marine" colourway and a skein of Zen String Bambewe in the "Linen" colourway.

Both yarns are 'new-to-me' and they're simply gorgeous! I found both yarns to be exactly the colours I'd expected and dealing with The Loopy Ewe was an absolute pleasure. Totally hassle-free!

I also ordered "Millicent", a CookieA pattern. The way the ribbing swoops across the foot has me fascinated. I'm looking forward to trying it.

I don't yet know which socks these yarns want to be, so feel free to make suggestions.

Thanks again S & J! :D

Labels: CookieA, gift, goodies, patterns, ShibuiKnits, sock pattern, sock yarn, stash, thanks, The Loopy Ewe, Zen String