Sanna has been keeping secrets!

Now I can keep a secret, especially around Christmas, but I see now that so can my KTS4 pal Sanna!! Look what I found in my mailbox today – why it’s a Christmas present from Sanna!! Total surprise – that girl’s been keeping secrets! Girl, you are just too much!

I am completely blown away by her thoughtful-ness, especially considering the difficulties we had getting my parcel to her! I completely under-estimated her, thinking she would be less than enthusiastic about future knitting exchanges after all our difficulties. However, un-deterred by the lousy postal system here and the possibility of complete delivery failure to her, in the midst of the crisis and having not yet received anything for herself, she still thought of me, and I am deeply touched by her generosity.

Her lovely Christmas card (covered in prints of little Finnish mittens) tells me that she picked this up during her recent roadtrip with her knitting girlfriends to the Tampere handicraft
festival, thinking of me when she saw it! And she was absolutely right – it is very me! That she would even think of me, let alone purchase such an amazing gift, while surrounded by all the wonderful yarn-y goodness that I’m sure she must have coveted for herself, is truly testament to her giving spirit! I had noticed that her blog was light on the details of her purchases from Tampere, and now I know why!! (On a side note, Sanna has been double blogging her entries in both Finnish and English – again her consideration for my inadequacies with the Finnish language translations is amazingly thoughtful!)

So what is it, you ask? Well, in addition to the lovely box of yummy Christmas Jellies (which she admonished me to share with my family!) it’s 100% Estonian Heavy Lace Weight Wool and a truly amazing variegated shawl pattern. That means that Sanna has been reading my blog, possibly even delving into some of the back-dated ones from before we were hooked up by KTS4. She must have seen that some of my goals in the New Year are to stretch my knitting skills and a) knit lace, and b) learn to read a chart! This amazing gift contains both the yarn and the charts to make those goals a reality!

Sanna – you are so very sweet to have surprised me with this wonderful present, and I am profoundly grateful that KTS4 introduced us, and that I now have such a wonderful pal to call my friend!

For everyone else reading - all I wish for Christmas is that you all get to experience the fun and profound sense of joy at connecting and getting to know a new friend who is as much fun as Sanna is! I am one lucky girl this Christmas!

Merry Christmas and thank you Sanna – for everything!

Knit on….

Kate