I consider myself very blessed to have a large number of friends who knit. Knitting is what brought some of us together; others have learned along the way. (It's pretty contagious, apparently.) One of the things I love about knitting is that it's both a solitary and a social activity, and it really does bring people together in awesome ways. (One could say it knits them together ... hahaha. Er, sorry.)
My lovely friend Evangeline is one of those who didn't knit initially but soon got sucked in. (After she moved back to Pittsburgh, she walked into a circle of friends who can gabble on about Tosh and Malabrigo for hours and walk up to each other and exclaim in joyful recognition, "Oh, I love your Fetchings! Oh, you're wearing Echo Flowers!" So she didn't stand much of a chance.)
Now Evangeline lives in LA, but she stopped by Pittsburgh for a few days on her way home for Christmas. The day before she left she and another friend surprised me with a generous and incredibly sweet Christmas gift.
They drew the design on the cup and saucer themselves with ceramic pens. Yes--those rows of stockinette are all hand drawn.
And as if that wasn't enough, to top it off they also gave me a skein of Tosh Sock in the colorway Oxblood.
(The only downside of having such a wonderful skein of yarn? Deciding what pattern to knit with it! So hard!)
I was so touched. What wonderful and generous friends. :)
Wow - handdrawn? That's awesome. They could TOTALLY sell those on Etsy! Also, Oxblood is the "in" color this season. Better knit something fast, before it goes out of style ;-)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful gifts! I like how you describe knitting as being both solitary and social. I don't knit very often, but that is definitely something I appreciate about knitting! I learned how to knit because my friend taught me at a craft get together. But it is nice to work on a knitting project while at home watching a movie too.
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