Today was a good day. I took the girls to the park, got the bathrooms cleaned, opened four more packages of yarn that came in the mail, and hung out with a few friends at one of the many local yarn shops. The only one that serves pastries, coffee drinks, and even alcoholic beverages.
Let’s open some packages.
First, another package all the way from Australia. Erin says this Opal made her itch, and that she couldn’t send a package all the way from Down Under without some Australian wool in it too. The yellow is Heirloom DK merino. It is like butter. 
Next, a good-sized box from Nancy in Washougal, Washington. You may remember her from the cinnamon-roll box the other day. This is her second shipment, and it’s a doozy. She must knit socks non-stop day and night is all I can say. Lots of pretty colors here, too.
Finally, and take a deep breath here – I almost had a heart attack when I opened two boxes from Ginny in Ohio. This is an amazing assortment including Regia, Lorna’s Laces, Mountain Colors, Joslyn’s Fiber Farm, and many others. I kept digging through the box and not even believing what I saw. I’m not sure if Ginny wants me to share the details of her story with the world or not, but she has some good reasons for stash reduction and assured me that there is much more where this came from. I think I will be forwarding some of this lovely stuff to other good homes as soon as I can decide which bits I can bear to part with.
Thanks to all three of you for your generous contributions to my little project. You have substantially added to the quickly-growing pile of yarn, and I’m going to have to find some more containers for some of this soon! I’ll have pictures of the mountain in the next couple of days.
Okay, I’ve sorted out a few packages’ worth of outgoing mail ready to send on Monday. It’s not much, but it’s a start considering how much incoming I’ve been dealing with.
Anne in Virginia is getting the skein of pinks and purples, which she plans to use to make a gift for her niece.
Denise in Georgia is getting a ball of the blue Fortissima to make a pair of socks.
Karin in Oregon is getting the green/blue ultramerino for another pair of socks.
Here comes your cute-kid-picture of the day. Someone suggested in the comments that I should make one of those Hallowigs from Knitty for Julie. Well, I happened to have one laying around – I had knit one for my friend Julie who died of ovarian cancer last year when she was short in the hair department during chemo. After she passed away, her family returned to me all the chemo hats I had knit her because I wanted to hold on to them. So here’s my Julie wearing it. I did convince Joe to put it on his head momentarily, but I had to promise not to publish photos of him in it on the Internet. You’ll just have to use your imagination.
Holy COW! That’s a lot of yarn…I’m amazed again. Julie looks just adorable in the wig, too. I’m very sorry to hear about your friend Julie.
*faints* You hit the motherload of packages by the look of it! Wow! Just…Wow.
And thank you for the yarn! I can’t wait to try my hand at sock knitting ^_^
Yarn heaven.
Such a sweet picture.
Sorry about your friend.
HI! I’d like to add to your stash and in fact have E-mailed you twice. It just occurred to me that I may have been blocked for some reason. I have leftover sock yarn from 2 recently finished socks looking for a home. Just need your address. pamhuang@aol.com
Aha! I knew the wig was a good idea…you just thought it was a good idea first…
Yay, you got my package! I’ve been watching for it.
Wow…knitting, woolness nirvana! I don’t blog (just read them), but I do knit (‘tho don’t have any small children); however, I do knit for charity from time to time. There is a new charity effort (with a September, I think deadline) part of Warm Up America, this is specifically Caps to the Capital. Goal is to “bury” G.W. under a mountain of preemie and infant knitted (c——-d) hats to get him to put more $ in budget for child care, etc. Long story short: if you would care to send me some of your overflow yarn, I will be more than happy to knit it up into preemie/infant hats for this Caps to the Capital campaign . If interested, you can email me at brober10@earthlink.net. In the meantime, I’m loving your blankie!
Wow, you must be having such a blast playing with all of that! My blankie is coming along. I’ve added two of the colors from the socks I just finished and will be happily sampling so that I can add, oh, everything in the fiber closet to the project. I spent a good long while on Saturday (sweating profusely and) winding balls of yarn to go in the tote bag. I’ll try to post a photo of the blankie in progress this afternoon, woo-hoo!
I’m sorry to hear about your friend, also.
But I cannot send G.W. any handknits for any reason, sorry, Beverly. The cause is good, but I don’t see him having any appreciation for the real compassion that handknitters have for children, no matter how much we knit. I’d rather send them to Stephanie for the WIC project.
ohoh! I would love to get free yarn! Actually, I would love to get any yarn. It’s all so pretty! I want to start knitting socks [I've already practiced], so now I can go buy some sock yarn when I find money!