Pictures soon... I promise!

I got my first bit of goodies from my Secret Pal last week. They were in a lovely box on my dining room table when we returned from a week in Florida with my grandfather. It's some gorgeous Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece in Candy Apple.

What with vacation, then coming back to a super-crazy day at work today (Don't ask. You don't want to know. I just wish people would leave their stinking guns at home. Gah.) there's still no photos. This stuff is too pretty for me to take a cell phone pic, so I'm waiting until I've got a husband to bug about batteries and memory cards and what not.

But I'm so excited about the yarn, and about knitting something with it... I've got two ideas. The lovely (and quick!) Ballet T from Loop D Loop and some baby thing. Maybe the Baby Surprise jacket? Maybe the Garter Stitch Sweater and a matching hat? Or hat, booties and thumbless mittens on a string? Or, something to be determined once I've actually made the first thing and seen how much yarn is left?

Oh well.

Thanks, Secret Pal! I love it very much!

Yarn came! SP Package on the way!

The yarn for my sweater came the other day, but I haven't had time to take pictures and get them up yet. Hopefully this afternoon...

And I got an e-mail from my secret pal this morning -- my first package has shipped! I can't wait!

Curses! Foiled again! -- Happy update!!

Shade tree on back order. Another week or two before it ships. Oh well. That gives me more time to knit for my secret pal!

Just got an e-mail from WEBS... It's shipping today. No more waiting! Yahoo!

Bought it!

Just bought 19 skeins of Classic Elite Four Seasons in Shade Tree. I'll post pics when it arrives. It was on sale for holy-freakin-cheap! $3.49/skein. Can't beat that. And I think I've actually bought way more yarn than I needed. WEBS listed 87 yards/skein, everybody else says there's 103. At that rate I'll have three skeins left over. I'm sure I can find SOMEthing to do with some lovely green cotton. Otherwise, in the stash it goes! I'm totally going to run out of space when this stuff comes. I'm in so much trouble.