Right before my surgery in March, I received a lovely package from Laura at the Unique Sheep. In it was a lovely handknit cowl, bright, cheery and full of friendship and love. It seemed at the time to be a totally random event and it warmed my heart more than I can even begin to verbalize.
Moving forward to this past weekend, a dear friend of mine from college came down from Alaska to stay with us for a few days. Ann was the very first friend that I made in college and we have stayed in contact all of these years, sharing our joys, sorrows and friendship. She was down here for medical reasons and I convinced her to make a girl’s weekend out of it.
I asked her if there was anything specific that she wanted to do, since she doesn’t get down to this neck of the woods very often. “Nope” she said, “Just spend time with you.”
knitting it forward
And spend time together we did. We talked until we tired of talking, sat in companionable silence for a bit, then chattered away again. We laughed at each other, our children and husbands. We had cupcakes just for fun. In my book it was the best birthday present ever. I finished the above pair of socks while she was here and handed them over. The pattern is Serendipity (I modified the pattern with a standard heel rather than a short row heel) and the yarn is from the recent Sip n Stitch from the Unique Sheep. Of course I didn’t keep the ball band from the yarn, so I can’t remember the colourway, but I love love love the way that it knit up.
And the best part? It really felt like I was knitting it forward. The cowl from March really wasn’t so random after all.
Lovely socks! I bet your friend was wowed!