cosymakes

and pulled out ‘alissa and kristen’ and joanne! congrats you two! i’ll put together some packages for you shortly.

seen in this photo is the yarn that will be going out to these two lucky winners. it is lady allure double crepe – here’s the label and here’s a more sparkly picture. you get two balls each and you get to choose your color. the yellow has gold in it and the red has silver. i never promised you a rose garden… er something pretty, but instead something interesting so here’s the story.

while in alaska, i somehow managed to inherit this wool from a lovely serbian alaskan pioneer named angie. this adventure included eating both pineapple upside down cake and fudge, as well as digging around in her basement, where she hadn’t been for at least several years. i was actually searching for some darker yarn in skein form that she bought in china, but came up with this crazy crepe stuff and some mohair and loopy wool. i left the acrylic for the next unsuspecting soul. i plan to make her twin grandchildren hats in return for her generosity, but mostly i think she’s glad to see it used. my mother-in-law had me show her all of my book knits and she showed me some of her lovely crochet work. the garbage bag with this yarn in it also included a pattern for a granny square tunic (yikes), but angie said that someone gave her this yarn too and she just never used it.

what do i find spectacular about this yarn? all the yarn that i’ve ever seen similar to this has been nasty christmas acrylic. i was, indeed, pleased as punch to find not only wool with labels, but also a slice of history that i didn’t even know ever existed. i’ve no idea what i’ll do with it… but i’m happy to have it. and i hope that the winners of the contest are too!