Whodunnit

I was not expecting this package. There was no packing slip, no name, nothing, just a Patternworks label on it. Inside was one ball of a yarn I had picked up at Stitches East, wished after, and put back. In retrospect, with all the yarns I did buy there later, I would go back now and put a few back and buy several of these instead, but at the time I did not think of it and so it didn’t happen.

Filatura di Crosa “Superior,” a brushed 70/30 cashmere/silk laceweight, is what Kidsilk Haze aspires to be. This is glorious stuff, soft as some qiviuts I’ve touched, absolutely beautiful. Wow.

And I didn’t buy any. But apparently someone noticed how much I’d loved it and bought a ball for me and surprised me. I am surprised, totally. I called Patternworks, just to make sure there wasn’t some mistake–oh heck let’s be honest, curiosity was absolutely killing me.

The woman who answered the phone had no clue either. But she was delighted for me and delighted that someone out there somewhere would do that for somebody else; it completely made her day, too. I wished her a good weekend as we hung up.

Whoever you are, thank you for this mitzvah. I hope to live up to it by knitting and gifting well with it.