Friday 21 July 2017

Snail Mail - July 2017

I've had some lovely things drop through my letterbox just lately so I thought I'd share some of them with you.


I was a little confused when a large envelope addressed to me was delivered last week, I wasn't expecting anything at that time so I wondered what it could be. Julie from Julie's Stitchyknitter Journal had been on holiday to Norfolk and, knowing we'd recently booked a holiday there, had picked up some information whilst she was out and about to send to me. What a kind thing to do, especially as she hasn't been very well just lately, yet she was still thinking about me. Thank you, Julie, we're still reading through it but we're making lots of notes for when we visit Norfolk ourselves. I'm always so blown away by the kindness and generosity of people in the blogging community.


The next parcel was delivered earlier this week, two scrummy skeins from Giddy Yarns. Helen has only recently opened her Etsy shop, in fact, I was her very first customer. I know Helen from her Giddy Knits podcast and this is where I saw her showing the colourways she was going to have on sale. I could have actually gone mad, there were quite a few which appealed to me, but I settled on Roadkill Peppa, a variegated/graduated pink colourway with dark brown and red speckles, so named by Helen after she had thoughts of Peppa Pig getting run over after watching far too many episodes with her children. I missed out on Peppa Pig myself, my two were born just a little too early, but I know how fed up you get with watching the same thing with children over and over again, it was Thomas the Tank Engine and Teletubbies with Daniel and Eleanor. The second colourway is called Dorothy and is variegated and speckled. Inspired by Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, it contains the blue and white of her dress, the red of her ruby slippers and green and yellow speckles to represent the yellow brick road and Emerald City. I couldn't be more pleased with my purchase, they both look even better in real life than they do in photos, and they're both so soft being 75% superwash merino and 25% nylon. I need to find some special projects in which to use these.


I was lucky enough to win a prize in Nicola's Try Something New knit along on her Bumble Stitches podcast. You may remember the Duotone Cowl which I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, well this is the project which I entered, along with a couple of others, and my name got drawn as a winner. The prize was a beautiful project bag made by Nicola herself, three mini skeins and a bee stitch marker which you can see in the photo attached to the zip of the bag. Thank you, Nicola, it's a fabulous prize and it will all be put to very good use.

I think you'll agree that some wonderful mail has dropped through my letterbox this month, I'm a very lucky girl.

41 comments:

  1. How absolutely wonderful and lucky you are. Love the yarn, I love watching how the colours knit up in yarn like that. The bag is gorgeous too.

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    1. I'm always surprised by the design which yarn makes when it's variegated in this way, it's fun to knit up.

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  2. Lucky indeed - nothing better than some bloggy friendship & knitty mail! Those yarns look scrumptious and that bag is so cute - love it all.

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    1. I've really enjoyed opening my mail just lately, makes a change from the usual bills.

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  3. You have been lucky this month, Jo. Well done! :o)

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    1. All lovely things, it's been so exciting opening everything up.

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  4. Wonderful yarns and loving the project bag, that'll be so useful.
    Xx

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    1. I couldn't resist the yarn, it was a bit of a hard choice deciding which ones to buy, there's were so many lovely colours. Thanks again for the Norfolk info, it's very much appreciated.

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  5. Wow, what a great lot of snail mail. I hardly ever get mail these days, except for a few "bills". I must order some Stylecraft from Wool Warehouse as we can't get it over here and I really need some crocheting to do of a night. The wools above are all so pretty. I was only chatting to a little girl yesterday about Peppa Pig she was carrying around with here, then bumped into them again at the Hardware Store, so how weird that you mentioned it too, though I'm not sure about it being run over!! (sob, sob). Have a great weekend & take care.

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    1. I haven't done any crocheting for such a long time but I can feel a bit of an urge coming on so perhaps it won't be too long before I pick up my hook again. Ha ha, I know, can you imagine the uproar if Peppa Pig got run over? I know where Helen's coming from though, I could have quite easily strangled the Teletubbies myself when Eleanor was little.

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  6. You have some beautiful things, from the very thoughtful reading material to help you plan your holiday to the wonderfully named Roadkill Peppa... my two were too old for Peppa Pig too xx

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    1. I've had a wonderful collection of mail just recently. I often smile at the names which dyers have called their colourways, I don't think I'll forget Roadkill Peppa in a hurry.

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  7. Looks like you're going to be even busier with your knitting. I used to live getting snail mail, now all I get is emails.

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    1. I think email has killed the art of letter writing. I still try to drop people a line from time to time as it just isn't the same having something drop in your inbox as it is getting something through the letterbox.

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  8. I'm so glad you're pleased with your yarn. X

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    1. I love it, it's so soft and squishy and such beautiful colourways, I can't wait to find the perfect projects so that I can use it, though I think I'll just look at it for a while first.

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  9. How excellent, you've had some wonderful gifts and surprises. There's a lot there to keep you busy for ages or you could just look at them all and enjoy the lively colours.

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    1. I'll definitely keep the yarn for a while before breaking in to it, I enjoy just looking at the beautiful colours and squishing it from time to time.

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  10. You will enjoy all those goodies.

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    1. I definitely will, it's lovely to have such pretty things.

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  11. Lucky you, it's always good to get welcome post like that. xx

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    1. It's such a treat to have wonderful things delivered through the post.

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  12. Roadkill Peppa! Oh that made me laugh! I missed out on Peppa Pig with big daughter (that obsession was Pingu) and but got the full hit with small daughter. Luckily, she's way past that now and didn't seem in the least bit impressed when I offered to take her to the Peppa Pig movie at the pictures :) xx

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    1. I had Pingu with Daniel too, I thought it was quite cute actually, it was just the noise he made which got on my nerves. There's a Peppa Pig movie? I'm glad I didn't have that to suffer.

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  13. How nice! I really want to listen to more podcasts, of all types, but I'm not finding much time in my days for it lately. I really prefer to do it with headphones and it's just hard to do that when my kids are always around, needing things and talking constantly to me! School starts in a few weeks, I'll try again then. I laughed about Roadkill Peppa, how funny. She's only just becoming popular here but I find her a little annoying anyway. I think the worst shows when mine were very small we Caillou, whom we called Cry-You because he was so whiny, and Dinosaur Train, which had a weird religious component. At least they were born after the Barney the Dinosaur stage. I had enough of him when my youngest sibling was little!

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    1. I really enjoy Podcasts, I can get my knitting out and craft whilst I'm listening and watching. I understand that it would be hard with children around though, definitely something to try again when they're back at school. Oh, Barney the Dinosaur, I forgot about him, he was another of Eleanor's favourites and we even had to go and watch the show when we went to Disneyland, or was it Universal? It was when we were in Florida anyway.

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  14. You are a lucky girl, everything is so wonderful. You must feel like you are in yarn HEaven!

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    1. I certainly do. It's such a treat to have such beautiful things.

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  15. It's lovely when something unexpected drops through the letterbox, how kind of Julie to think of you, she is a wonderful person.
    Love the new yarn, and the win,well done, the mini's and the bag look lovely :-)
    Have a good week

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    1. I was so surprised when I opened the envelope from Julie, I find it so touching that she should think of me when she's away from home on her holiday. There seems to be so much to do in Norfolk, it's a shame we'll only be there for a week.

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  16. Came to you from Meredith's blog. I love the GIDDY yarn. The skein on the right is really beautiful.

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    1. Thank you for visiting, and for your comment. Helen's dyed up some fabulous colourways for her shop, I really was spoilt for choice when I came to order.

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  17. Totally agree with your parcels this week. Loved the wool, what lovely colours they are, both lots look soft! How kind sending you all that info re your upcoming hols, yes, bloggers are such a lovely bunch for sure.xxx

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    1. The yarn is beautifully soft, it'll be such a treat to knit with it. The kindness of bloggers never fails to surprise me, they're such a wonderful bunch.

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  18. Nice mail indeed ...
    Blogland can be such a great friendly place.

    All the best Jan

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    1. Blogland has the friendliest people, they never cease to amaze me with their kindness and generosity.

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  19. Really how kind of that was it to send you all those leaflets and snippets of info about Norfolk, so thoughtful.
    I love the Dorothy yarn, wonderful colours and such a great name too.
    Well done on your win.
    Lisa x

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    1. Not knowing Norfolk at all, the information is so useful, it's so kind of Julie to have thought of me. Mick's really enjoying reading through it all too. The Wizard of Oz is one of my favourite films and I think Helen has taken so much inspiration from it and dyed it up in this yarn, I can't wait to find a lovely project in which to use it.

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  20. Just blog hopping and came across yours . Love the peppa pig roadkill wool ! I won some fabric this week in a quilt a long , it's great to hear that parcel arrive !

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    1. I'm looking forward to using the Roadkill Peppa yarn, it's so soft and I'm sure it will knit up beautifully. Well done on your win, it's always exciting to receive such a lovely parcel.

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