Some skeins of yarn are destined for great things. Others are destined for tiny things that are more precious than we can say. We just learned of a very sweet story that we thought you’d enjoy reading.
© arianna
We reached out to Arianna on Ravelry who recently finished a darling wee sweater made with just two skeins of Green Mountain Spinnery Sylvan Spirit. She used the Pebble Yoke Sweater pattern designed by Cap Sease, which is part of the 99 yarns and Counting collection, or available as an individual PDF for $7.
She wrote back and told us a bit more about the history of her project.
“There is actually a very special story behind the sweater! I bought that yarn when I was up in VT visiting my newlywed friends back in December of 2007. They brought me to a local yarn shop because I love checking out LYSes. So I kind of on-the-sly bought this yarn with the sole intention of making them a baby sweater one day.
Well, the wife went through a lot in the intervening years, beating cancer before they were able to conceive their first child. I was finally able to knit them that sweater – with yarn that had traveled through several different apartments with me – seven years later! – and was thrilled to have mailed it to them recently for their beautiful new daughter.
I thought you might like to know there was a real story behind the yarn & sweater – and that it all started with your beautiful yarn!”
We love learning about the tales our skeins hold. We often forget that the creation of our yarns is just the preface. It’s lovely to be reminded that when they leave the Spinnery, for many skeins, their adventure has just begun.