Wonderful Treats from Emma!

Today has been a pretty good day -- good meeting with my computer science prof about my masters thesis project, pretty decent day at work, and the anticipation of adding some Noro to my stash for my Fuzzy Feet and getting my Silk Garden sweater closer to completion. But I got a wonderful treat in the mail from my blog-ring neighbor Emma! Emma had kindly offered to send me some information about knitting lace shawls -- but I got an incredible surprise along with it:

Total inspiration to go out and knit socks!!! The grey yarn is for my husband (who is not terribly bright color tolerant). The green yarn is for me and is supposed to knit up in a jacquard pattern. They are both lovely and soft to the touch. I just bought a set of size 2 (2.75mm) because I wanted to try making Theresa's Lace Arrow Sachet, but now I think they might have to go towards into starting socks!

Thank you sooooo much, Emma! My birthday is next week and this is a wonderful, unexpected, early treat! This gives me lots of incentive to overcome my fear of double pointed needles!

When I started blogging I didn't have any idea how many wonderful, friendly, helpful people I would come across. The socks out of this yarn will be so much warmer than out of any yarn I could have bought for myself!