A strange knitting coincidence happened today. I was doing a bit of yarn surfing on the internet (looking for exciting things to spoil my Secret Pal with) when I found an American site called Plain Mabel www.plainmabel.com which has some gorgeous gifts and a wonderful crafts section including some amazing looking textural yarn kits from a designer called Erica Weiner - the description is as follows:
"These eclectic skeins from Erica Weiner are made up of about 50 strands in a wide array of materials like traditional yarn, ribbon, and even measuring tape or rick-rack. Each one is based around a main color but includes various coordinating shades. Individual strands are about 120" long and can be unraveled and draped around your neck, knit into a scarf using the included instructions, or crafted in countless other ways. Skein may include: silk, cotton, wool, acrylic, hemp, metal, and other natural and man-made components."
By this time I was drooling and it was no good, I just HAD to have a skein of this wonderful stuff even though it was (gulp) $40 a skein - and she takes PayPal as well so it wasn't even like paying with real money! On the offchance I thought I'd check out Ebay in case there was any on there (probably the odds were about five million to one but worth a go) and there it was - one skein of Erica Weiner yarn ending in five hours at $26 and no bids. I put in my bid and five hours later it was mine. I emailed the seller and told her my story and got a lovely email back saying I was obviously meant to have that yarn. Don't you just love it when things like that happen?
And I have some ideas for Secret Pal gifts too.