Holiday Gifts

Knitting patterns and yarn are great Christmas gift ideas for the knitters you know.

A few of years ago…my mom gave me an Elann Sample Skein subscription as a Christmas gift. I was so excited when the first installment arrived…the tiny skeins were all in shades of off white and I recall thinking that I could knit a long ecru scarf with my year’s worth of samples…until the February installment arrived and all the samples were in shades of blue. As my padded envelope arrived each month it was clear that a scarf still could indeed be knit with the samples but it would end up looking very patchwork and I am good with that. I decided to wait until my subscription ran out before beginning the project so I could play with all the colors and figure out the proper placement. I am actually just closing my eyes and pulling a skein out of the bag when one color runs out so the scarf is being knit totally random.

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