The Ravelled Sleeve

…my LSP Wendy, who has unmasked herself to me at last, with one final, characteristically stunning package!

Not a great image, as you can see, and it doesn’t show you the glorious colours of the yarn — but there’s no doing anything about the four sorry hours of tepid daylight we get at this time of year here…

In any case, that’s a beautiful crocheted and felted bag in Kureyon 40 (which you can see here in its full completed glory, and by real daylight); a cotton tank pattern; a mini sock blocker, with pattern (I’m intending to use some Koigu left over from my mother’s shawl); Carole Wulster’s customisable sock pattern book (which may finally teach me to kitchener, since I can actually understand her instructions!); two Dr Seuss-esque books (for G.); the winter 2006 Interweave Knits; some teacup notelets; a photoframe and bookmark; a Burt’s Bees hand and foot set; and four skeins/balls of stunning, co-ordinated, jewel-toned yarn — some Manos (my first, and not my last), two skeins of sari silk, and some Kujaku.

Wendy, you’re amazing, and I’m overwhelmed. Another super-generous package chosen with your hallmark intuitive craftiness: dinosaur books may just be a good guess for a three year old boy (he loves them), but how did you know he also has a thing about identifying types of trees? And the Burt’s Bees package is superbly timed: I cast on for Seraphim this week, and my winter-roughened hands are snagging horribly on the alpaca-silk yarn I’m using… Thank you, thank you, thank you.