..and a hearth.
It's always worth the wait and I never get impatient waiting for my Rowanette Exchange thingy. One of the nice things about it, is the surprise factor. I mean, if you knew it was going to be finished and sent by a certain date, what kind of surprise would that be?
The theme this year is Home and Hearth. Lots of really, really love things were made. It looked like everyone went out of their way to make something special that their recipient would love.
So when I got the package slip from postie on Thursday, I thought that it was likely to be my Rowan #40. (OK, if any Rowan people are reading this, please find out where my #40 has gone. It's really, really late!). So imagine my surprise when I saw that it was my thingy. Naturally, I ripped into it the moment that I got my hands on it.
Isn't it gorgeous?
So many wonderful, wonderful things. I adore all of it. The cushion is just fabulous.
I'm a really, really lucky girl, cause Rowanette Kate also sent some fabulous recipe books and a mini version of the cushion as a potholder.
Naturally, I immediately read through the recipes and am fascinated by these...
Squabble Pie...
Pond Pudding
Whitpit
Suddenly, I feel an overwhelming desire to cook and how appropriate as Somerset cooking seems to use lots of apple and it'll be apple season in a few week's time.
Thank you Kate....!
Posted by atu at August 12, 2006 02:00 PM | TrackBackalpacas were featured on page 3 of the metro today -said the same as the site you mentioned - alpacas range from £500-£8000 (or something like that -was half asleep when I read it this morning.)
They will soon go up in price if every city trader has read the metro and now wants one or they will become some fashion accessory to own! As long as I get yarn...
Apple season! Those are such thrilling words. :-) Apple crisp, apple pie, applesauce, apple cider... not only are these things wonderful in their own right, but they usually coincide with the return of sweater weather. Ah!
Posted by: Beth S. at August 14, 2006 05:14 PMYou're not alone! I'm in the UK and haven't received Rowan 40 yet either - perhaps ours were in the same sack!
Posted by: Cariad at August 13, 2006 10:18 AMHello Polly,
I as well as really many knitters from Finland love your Kiri Pattern. We have pretty many knitters here who unfortunately can't read English. I would like to translate the pattern into Finnish with your permission ;-)
I have a knitting blog and I'm already known as a shawl knitter along my readers.
If you are interested, please visit in my blog and leave a comment. You can also mail into email address sia at luukku dot com (fix the address, please), leave also then a blog comment about the email because I don't read that email so often, it is only for sharing a address in the Net.
With honour,
Sari Åström
www.kadentaidot.blogspot.com
What a great gift! How thoughtful, and a nice surprise.
Posted by: Charity at August 12, 2006 05:23 PMWhat a wonderful surprise! Such a generous and thoughtful package to receive. And thanks for the link to the Alpaca site - I nearly spewed my coffee when I pulled up the cost for the females too!!
Posted by: Laura at August 12, 2006 04:14 PM