When our friend Abigail began planning a dinner party you could hear the excitement in her voice sharing about the invitations she e mailed, the menu she was planning as well as hints about surprises she had up her sleeve. Beginning with gifts she gave us. Faith recieved handmade stitch markers, Chosen our new mascot, something she had been wanting. No, not the mascot but the gift it was. (more on that in another post) and I, Judah, a keychain sock blocker sock with #1 dbn’s by Knit Picks. Her adorable son was involved in the process. It is such delight watching the interaction as the respect and affection they openly displayed. She induldged us with her family recipe of Chicken Catchatori.
We probably would have gone back for seconds, even thirds but we were overwhelmingly tempted to save room for the dessert RB made especially for us.
We left full. Full of the meal we knew was made with lots of thoughts and affection. Full of unexpressable emotions as I sat around drinking in the evening. Full of the blessing of friendship. There is a special knitting (excuse the pun you knitters) of our hearts and it is the gift that keeps on giving.
Than Abigale began to play a numbers game with us. Pull the number out of the bag. She and RB would do the ‘shopping’ for us according to the numbers we drew. Can you imagine the shock when they dropped bags and bags of fiber… sock yarn, dishcloth cotton, on our lap. All types and colors. She was sharing her stash and we were the recipeints of her generousity. Now I really am in a delema, what to knit and where to start. I think I have an idea although it may sound a bit obsessive, but I think it will work. My only delema is which magazines do I remove from the bathroom. Then I can replace them with a couple balls of yarn and assorted dpn. Gotta go and knit a keychain.
I’m so glad that I was a blessing to you. It was truly a fun evening.