Continuing the food theme, I saw these and had to try them once. The idea of green beans being potato-chipified was well into the nonpsychodegradeable category. Um. Hubby, day one: “Gaack!” Hubby, day two: “There’s some left? Sure, I’ll have some more.”
Make sure there’s plenty of water nearby to help you swallow–trust me.
Meantime. I told this story last month on my blog, but a lot of people at Purlescence’s knit night on Thursday didn’t know anything about it. Mary was there for the first time in awhile, so I decided to tell on her generosity a bit and say what she’d done. And I did want to know if her shawl fit okay. I told her, if she wanted more length, she had the rest of the dye lot: after the shop had gotten their shipment in from Handmaiden, she had shown up that Monday morning to buy a new skein to replace the one she’d given me. I, not knowing that, had shown up an hour or two after her to buy two skeins to knit her a bigger shawl to replace, you got it, the skein she’d given me. They’d sold out of the periwinkle fast. Heh.
She loved it, told me it had been a complete surprise, and that it did fit. Good! That helps confirm my idea that for a larger size, starting at a wider neckline (row 2 in most of my patterns) and adding length works best.
But the group laughed when I admitted I had two more skeins of Casbah somewhere and I couldn’t find them for the life of me. I knew I had them. I knew where I would have put them.
“You’ll just have to buy more!”
“Twist my arm!”
Next shipment… Maybe I should knit a shawl in the Blackberry colorway, long as we’re talking food here.