The box came today in all its crumpled glory. The mail carrier was a little embarrased to be handing it off, and I am sure she was wondering what all the fuss was about as I was greedly trying to get it out of her hands. It didn’t look too exciting to her……,” but its the BOX!!!” I told her beaming.
Well, who had time to explain…..I had knitting to be done, and goodies to discover.
I waited, oh….maybe 5 seconds, then with scissors in hand I carefully performed box surgery. So much tape was holding it together. I got it back into a cube shape, briefly looked at all the great things Marie sent, grabbed a cotton skein and got busy casting on. Five minutes shy of two hours the dishcloth was finished. The fastest I have ever knit. I had my husband let me know the time in 15 minute increments. It helped keep the pace.
After entering information online and a very brief message to the team, it was time to fill the box with yarn and goodies for Emily. Postcards from every state the box went, the required two skeins of cotton, sweet treats and assorted momentoes, and of course the dishrag. I layed the “Read ME” sheet on the very top and taped her up..(the box is a She). The label got printed and just as I am taping it on, I started to get very teary…….didn’t see that coming. Being last to send the box meant that it was almost over and I will miss the adventure of it all.
With my husband insisting on doing the driving (the thought of an emotional,excited,tired-from-knitting,hasn’t-had-lunch wife on the road scared him….oh,why?), we made our swift way to the post office and handed our box off once again to travel another distance. Only this time it was going home to Emily. The sweet USPS clerk weighed in the box.
It was after we got home that I could really enjoy looking at all the fun goodies that Marie sent, and how sweet the dishrag looked. All of it was great, Marie, Thank You so very much. And Thank You Emily for all the hard work to keep this afloat for all to enjoy, and enjoy we did!
The pink and grey petal design went in the box to Alabama knitted from the yarn Marie sent in the box, and I get the square dishrag in one of my very favorite colorways! 
There are greetings and congratulations galore at the party over at www.yarnmiracle.com right now since just today we found out who won second, third , and fourth place in the TAG. Come join the fun!
2 Comments
September 8, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Hello Marcia,
Wow! you work fast. I am glad to hear you received everything okay and sent back everything in lick-spanking time.
The dishrags are very pretty. Enjoy your goodies!
Marianne
September 13, 2007 at 1:05 pm
The box, bemusing USPS workers all across the US! The expression on the face of the counter employee I handed my box to was a struggle for polite and “what the…?”.