Nice Mail

I had good mail yesterday.  

First up, one of my lovely nieces sent me a Christmas gift.  Yes.  It took a month for a Christmas letter to clear the post office.   It's a gift certificate for one of my favourite yarn stores.  What a sweet woman and a lovely gift.

And the yarn I ordered last week was also in the mail.  And oh my goodness did I pick the colours right.  

The navy Cascade 220 is from my stash but the 5 colours are new.  These are going to be  Flea sweater for me.  This time I am going to watch my gauge more carefully and I am going to check closely as I knit that I am keeping that gauge.  It may not look glorious yet, but it will.

And the sock yarn.  

Again it may not feel like much, but it fills my soul with pleasure.  A green farmer sock is on the way for me.  I started on with existing yarns but the Kroy sock yarn was too heavy for some old but very nice Confetti sock yarn.  They were distinctly different weights even though they were both fingering weights.  

They don't look that different here but they sure are when you work with them.  The Kroy would be a reasonable mate to the Fiesta.  

Now I have to figure out what I want to get with my gift certificate.  Right now I am leaning to something a little special.  Noro Kureyon?  Maybe some Cascade to make a gorgeous cabled something?  Hmmmm.