Saturday morning surprise
So I’d ordered some
laceweight handpainted yarn sometime last year, from handpaintedyarn.com. I made this lace shawl with it. I’d ordered a bunch of other colours and returned some, in exchange for more of this pale pink colour and this reddish rust shade. It never came, and after some fretting I cut my losses since the yarn was cheap, contact with those folks was tedious and I had too many things on my mind, among them moving house for the nth time (some of you remember my kvetching about my landlord from hell.)
But this morning, voila une belle surprise!
The current tenant called and asked us to pick up months of mail, since she’s had it with that flat too and is moving out. Amidst the credit card offers was nestled a bag of yarn! It’s four skeins of Red Java and Damask Rose, about 850 yards each. I now have four skeins (I already had two) and nearly 3500 yards of the Rose, and am in search of a lace shawl project. Something springy and flowery, perhaps. Hmm. I know I paid for it and all, but after nearly a year it still feels like some gorgeous free yarn dropped into my lap.
Btw, I highly recommend this yarn. Its colour variance is high, as I found out with some panic towards the end of my lace shawl. But the yarn quality is great, the shades are luminous and the price unbeatable.