Earlier this year, one of my very good students & friends moved far, far away.  Very sad.  She is living somewhere warm & sunny now, so I’m not even sure what she’s going to knit from now on.

One of the things I like best about this friend — I’ll call her "Karla" –

(hi Karla!  I warned you about showing up on the blog!)

– anyway, I really love Karla’s taste in yarn.  And specifically, her taste in yarn COLORS.

See, Karla is also a REDHEAD, which means she automatically has a certain level of good taste – but she goes above and beyond color, into the realm of good fiber, too.  So I always loved to see what goodies she had recently acquired.  Beautiful teals, cinnamon-y reds.  Some even with sparkly beads on.  As I say, my kind of girl.

On the very last day that she came to knit with me, she brought me a present, and it actually almost made me cry:  absolutely one of the best knitting presents I’ve ever received.greenbag

Now, you may know already that it’s often a bit tricky to knit something for a knitter.  It’s usually a much safer bet to gift a knitter with yarn.  (Am I wrong?  I don’t think so.)

But Karla really did it up right.  Not only was it a gift of yarn – and not only was it really nice yarn – and not only was it really nice yarn in the RIGHT COLORS – it also came wrapped in a cute little handknitted green bag!

…which she confessed to having thought of doing only the afternoon before – so she got cracking and whipped it up that day – and a little bit late into the night, if I recall correctly – which again, totally makes her my kind of knitter. 

(I mean, isn’t this exactly what happens to me every stinkin’ December?  "Oh, well, I can’t find anything I think is suitable for person X at the mall, so I’ll just go home and whip up a fabulous little something."  As the management at my former engineering job were fond of saying, with an airy wave of the hand, right after they gave you a time-sucking new assignment:  "Five-minute job."  NOT.)bagandyarn

I’ve had the ensemble hanging up in my studio ever since.  I’ve been kinda-sorta trying to decide what to make with it – but to be honest, I haven’t really been trying too hard.  I just like looking at it!

Those are so definitely the right colors.

Thanks, Karla!