Two bags of yarn…that’s what I saw when I walked into the empty room at church. It was Wednesday night…time for Bible study with the ladies. When I began meeting with this group, I discovered that one of the ladies was a knitter. She’s been knitting a little while but is not overly confident in herself yet, preferring to stick with the easiest stitches. We’ve formed a friendship, and I’ve been encouraging her to try new patterns.
Any good knitting friend will, naturally, enable another. She buys the newest issues of magazines, and I run out to get them. She buys a new book, and I do the same. I discover a fabulous yarn store in New Orleans, and she visits and spends $150.
It’s a friendship made in heaven.
When I saw the bags of yarn, I figured they belonged to her. We’re always showing off our latest cast-ons and talking about upcoming projects.
When she walked in, she nonchalantly picked up the bags and deposited them on the table in front of me.
They were for me. For a shawl I’ve been ogling in this book, recently purchased with a 40% coupon at Hobby Lobby:
The pattern is for a Mexican Shawl:
As I pulled the yarn out of the bags, I counted them…12 skeins of Vanna’s Choice…in six different colors!
I am so touched that she would do this for me. She has been personally affected by the financial woes that many of us have…a husband who only recently became employed again after being laid off…a house up for sale…a son newly home from Iraq…
To do something like this with pure excitement on her face…
A true blessing.
And a relief that I can honestly tell the Mr. that I didn’t buy more yarn.
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