New Life

I bought this yarn last summer to knit a shawl for a friend of mine, with the idea of giving it to her for her birthday.  When I was on the very last lace repeat, I held it up and realized either 1) a small child took a pair of scissors to it or  2) a moth had found it.  Either way, it was un-salvageable - at least without pulling it all out and reknitting.  Since it was a fingering weight yarn and had already taken me quite a while, that thought was just too much for me at the time.  I came up with another gift for her and tossed the ruined shawl in the deep recesses of my stash.

Until last week.  I got it back out, frogged the entire thing (shedding no tears, surprisingly), rewound the yarn and started over.  A different pattern this time, "The Age of Brass and Steam.".  I was waiting for yarn to come to finish Dinah's Bulle, so I knit on it pretty nonstop and, after two days, it was finished.  I love it.  Breathing new life into something that was unusable is a great feeling.  The yarn is malabrigo sock and the color is Archangel, most accurate in the first picture above.

In the meantime, I've made good progress on Dinah's Bulle - I just have the sleeves and pockets to finish and should be done later today.  I bought the yarn from a fellow Raveler, as I often do, but this time I was in for a surprise.  She had 6 skeins for sale and I asked her to split it and just sell me 3, which she agreed to.  Imagine my surprise when the yarn arrived and she had given me all 6 skeins for the price of 3!  I am so humbled by acts of generosity such as this.  It really reminds me that there are some amazing and wonderful people out there.

In sewing news, I found this sweet and easy tutorial for tiered skirts for my girls.  I went out last night to pick up some fabric and should have these whipped up later this evening to be tucked in with their other birthday gifts.  It looks like I have enough fabric left over to make one for their new baby sister as well!  3 matching little girls.  I can't imagine anything sweeter.

Linking up today with Ginny and Nichole.

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