Wishes do come true

As I was reading the old posts, I came across the following Christmas wish list. (See Dear Santa. It is still a great list for the knitters in your life if you ever need one.) #promotion

• Signature needles (any size circular, with a long cable) - or the whole collection! (Haha, as if!)
• Wollmeise yarn (I just bought my first skein....ooooh)
• Really, any wool blend yarn would make me happy, so check out all the gorgeous yarn on Etsy and pick me up a skein, or three. Doing that also supports local small businesses, which is nice.
• Those yarn blends make for some gorgeous socks, which I am in love with knitting right now. So any set of Wendy Johnson patterns, particularly her Socks in a Box, would be awesome.
• With all that yarn, I will need to be making and blocking final projects, so there are also, blocking wires and Sock Blockers (women's large).
• Blocking those new hand-knits requires wool wash, such as Soak.
• For the big spenders out there - how about a Schacht Spinning Wheel, as I would love to start spinning.
• Or, if you want to enable me in my spinning experiment but can't fork over the hundreds of dollars for a spinning wheel, how about a gorgeous hard-carved drop spindle or notions from Deerfield Creations?

As I was reading, it dawned on me how blessed I have been in the intervening years since I wrote that list. Let me show you.

• I laughed at the ridiculous wish of getting the whole collection, yet my brother did indeed buy that for me for Christmas. WHAT?! And later, my precious husband bought me another whole set. Thus, I now own both circular needles and double-pointed ones. 😲
• I received several more skeins, which were then chewed on by my dogs when left out in the open. Grrr...They are lucky I didn't rehome them! 😡
• Lots and lots of yarn from many Etsy stores! I have totes full. Totes, I tell you. (As does every other knitter you know, probably. It is our little dark secret.) 🙈
• Not only do I have multiple of these patterns, I also fell in love with Cookie A patterns and wrote a few of my own. (Want one of those that I wrote? Sign up for Exclusive Content, and you might find one in your inbox before you know it!)
• Blockers of all shapes and sizes, including some for large male feet now that I have a husband and grown bonus son (and a brother and nephews and ... you get it).
• My ladybug!! That I love so so much! AND... as if that wasn't enough, my generous parents also bought me an electric wheel.
• And lastly, several gorgeous drop spindles in expensive, beautiful woods now serve more as decoration than as spinning tools. Thank you, Daddy. 💓

Sometimes, it really is all about counting our blessings to realize how truly rich we are - not with the stuff that comes and goes - but with people who love us so much.

Praying for blessings and gratitude for you today,

Your (much blessed) Knitting Girlfriend!

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