About a month ago, I helped one of my best friends rekindle her long-dormant knitting skills - she had seen a afghan she liked and I looked at it, figured out the pattern ( an easy K2 P3), and told her she could save big cha-ching by knitting it herself -
so she did! Took her two weeks and she now has this gorgeous fluffy ivory afghan, which her husband keeps pretending to spill messy things on rather than just come out and tell her he's proud of her -
so the bug has taken hold, and it's changing her, slowly and insidiously -
we had to (well, that makes it sound like she forced me - I couldn't get the car out of the driveway fast enough!) go yarn shopping last Saturday because she had decided to make another similar afghan for a friend's birthday -
on Monday
and she did it again!!! Gave her friend the afghan, complete with fringe, on Monday morning, and when I saw her later in the day, she mused that perhaps she had killed the bug that was just starting to grow -
wrong - she got home from work yesterday and has now completed about 12" of a scarf for herself - absolutely warms my heart, although now I'll have to think of something else for her birthday rather than the scarf I was going to make -
maybe a gift certificate? Or even better, a day out yarn shopping in Toronto... by Jove, I think I've got it!
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