Amanda (scroll down to see) let me buy one of her very first colorways she dyed up for her then-new Etsy shop.  It’s brighter than this in real life, a very cheerful shade; the flash mutes it here. The shawl pin holding it on the wheel for me is handblown glass, a gift from my old friend Sheila Ernst from when I saw her at Stitches.
And then that yarn sat there in my stash, patiently waiting its rightful turn, with a false start I finally frogged. Till Amanda wrote a post about how her business was doing that sparked my pulling that gorgeous green out of the stash and casting on to see how far I could stretch my one little skein to go. Normally, I would have used needles a size or so smaller, and I would have cast on more stitches, but I needed all the length I could get.
It was good to see it back where it belonged. Her picture (note the beautiful brunette) is way more fun than mine.
Specifications: size 10 needles, the faster-version Julia from Wrapped in Comfort through the yoke and increase rows, then the Michelle shawl through the main body.