DOH!!!...

Sometimes I’m an idiot...a really big idiot. Recently I stumbled over a craft blog called Back Tack and from there several talented blogs many of which had a link to something called Secret Pal 5 or SP5. Basically you send three gifts to the person you are matched up with over a three month period. About the same time I found it SP5 send up a call for Angels - people to send gifts to those whose pal had disappeared somewhere in the ether, and I fired off an email requesting to assist. I figured that I could make something, reduce my fabric stash, and meet someone interesting - great! I picked out a likely person and sent a little note promising a package at a later date. About that same time I read ALL of the instructions for SP5 and discovered that is was a group of knitters - doh! I don’t know the first thing about knitting, hell I barely know where the yarn is in the craft store, in fact Emma Lou’s (yesterday’s post) hair is probably the only yarn I’ve touched in thirty years. So I gathered up the little group of things you see in the picture*. The knitting needles I selected because they are bamboo and feel satiny smooth, that’s a good enough reason, right?. The earring looking things are supposed to be stitch markers...I have no idea if they will even work, but they were a fun way to lighten my 8lb bead box. The person they are going to is in her teens, and I am about as out of touch with that age as I am knitting so I’ll have to let you know how well they are received. Still, it was fun and challenging to come up with this little package...and I met Rox (SP5's organizer) whom I like quite a bit...even if I often haven’t a clue what she’s talking about (knitting).

*I’m supposed to stay anonymous, but I think its safe to post this here because my blog does not appear on SP5 - Rox will let me know if I’m wrong; so if this post disappears you’ll know why.