It came!

Ah, what a great feeling to get the email that says, "Package for you at the front desk!" And it was a big one, too! I don't have pictures today, but maybe Monday.

My big box had:

• two bags of Jaimieson's Soft Shetland wool in color Wilkinson,
  
• Alice Starmore's Aran Knitting,
  
• Debbie Bliss' Easy Knits,
  
• a set of US1 turbos, 32",
  
• a big row counter with lots of wheels,
  
• leftover raisins and currants from Christmas breads, and
  
• the cough syrup I didn't finish when I was home.
  

Well, some of those are more interesting than others. I wanted to run right home and play with my new toys, but it didn't seem like a good idea at 11am. In fact, I stayed at work all day, went to dinner with friends, and then hung out and played games at the house where I lived as an undergrad.

You'll note that none of the things in the box went together to make one project. The Jamieson's goes with the Starmore book to make St. Brigid for my mom, but not on US1's. Those are for Mist, but I didn't have that yarn with me. And you can't knit with currants. So I spent all evening working on my random sock, which, while a nice project, is not what I wanted to have in my hands. So now, home at (ugh) 2am, I'm all excited to knit with the new stuff, but I know that I'm too tired to do anything correctly. I probably couldn't even cast on right. But tomorrow can be a knitting day. In fact, the intern from work is coming over and we'll wind off her Manos and start to knit. She wants to make long armwarmers (we can learn stitch and row gauge, decreases, increases, gussets) with some sort of curving pattern down them (purling, maybe cables). It will make a great first project. Maybe we'll have tea and currant scones....