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Dear Jan,

Two small miracles have occurred.

I finished Gima, my pullover based on Julie Weisenberger’s Paulina pattern, out of Habu Textiles Gima 100% cotton yarn.? A fun knitting experience, despite my flub that prevented me from wearing it to your ceremony.? It was a great lightweight coverup to my tank dress – kept my shoulders warm but let the air flow through on the hot subway platforms of NYC.

I did some slight modifications, adding short rows to provide some more drape over the bust.? If I knit it again, I think I’ll make it a bit longer in the front, too.

Second miracle – a tomato finished ripening in Minnesota well before the end of July!? Last year we didn’t even get one till mid-August. ? I’m delighted that this finish is really the start of the season.

And here is another start – a pair of plain vanilla socks out of Noro Kureyon.? I know you disliked knitting this yarn, but I’m enjoying it for simple stockinette.? It is crunchy, not soft, but I don’t mind that, plus it is known to soften a lot upon blocking.? It is a bit of a challenge knitting with such an energetic singles, but watching the colors unwind as I knit is highly amusing.

Tomato season has started, and knitting season just never ends, eh?

Love,

Ellen

Dear Jan,

I am now prepared to share the story of The Shawl, now that it is in C’s hands and wrapped around her.? She said it best…? “I know it is magic.”

To bring our readers up to speed, we are part of an amazing virtual knitting group, one that grabs all chances to be together in person but supports each other via the internet through all the trials and tribulations of? life between times.? It is stunning that these women have seen each other in the flesh but a few times, yet feels it is so important when one passes a major milestone, like your retirement ceremony, that not just one, but several, come from far out of state to attend.? K from Minnesota, J from Washington State, and C from Vermont were planning to attend that DC event.

Then life got in the way very big time, and C announced she had been diagnosed with something really serious – really curable, but really serious.?? Cure would take time and poison, and we all just wanted to wrap our arms around her and carry her through this journey, but as I mentioned, several states intervened.

K2 reassured us that the path to the cure was clear but also long and hard, and that while small knitted items are lovely, warmth was what was needed, warmth for the long treatments and the long nights that follow.? A shawl, she said, a shawl was the thing.

And I remembered a shawl that could be knit by many, not one after the other, but all at once.? This was the shawl we could knit at your ceremony and at the party after and maybe with all those hands knitting, we could get it to C before the second and more nasty round of cure would start.

Within 24 hours of the announced diagnosis, J3 had sent yarn she had spun from roving that E2 had dyed.? Yarn she loved but just hadn’t been able to figure out what it was needed for suddenly had a purpose (and what made E2 dye that lovely roving that J3 had to have, anyway?) Both would be present with the rest of us through the rest of the birth of The Shawl – so many times we mentioned them, their ears must have glowed red.

D added a selection of her handspun, and she and I cast on while still in Minnesota – K had already flown to DC to be with you.? She knit on during your ceremony, and then all of us headed off to the farm where we were able to have 3 knitters knitting at once,…

…and then 6 knitters at once at your retirement party.? More handspun, yours and mine, got added to the mix, along with a wine colored Wensleydale yarn from your LYS.

We made wonderful progress, and had so many laughs and tears together.? And upon returning home I called on D and K again and in several sessions with more laughs, more tears, and maybe a beer or two, we finished the knitting and the edging.

J created beaded adornments from beads that each of us held dear – I included beads from K2’s wedding veil, some goddess symbols, and others included semi-precious stones and glass.

Many ends woven in, with each one a promise of binding things together securely and safely, and within 4 weeks, well before the second session of the cure,? The Shawl was on its way to wrap C in love and warmth.

From her response, I believe she feels the magic of all of the energy? we have twined into this. Throughout, I felt the magic of all of us working towards this one purpose – not just creation of a thing of beauty and warmth, but magically creating an incarnation of our love that C can pull around her when times are hard and she needs to feel support.? I believe most sincerely that feeling that support will help her in her rapid recovery.

And we will have her knitting with us the next time the group gathers, for sure.

Love,

Ellen

Dear Jan,

I realize it is almost the end of Day 2, but I’m still recovering from a Day 1 mishap.

Selkie thought that fluffy Columbia batt felt purrfect for a kitty bed.? To me, though, seeing it put to use in that manner kind of felt like wiping out in the gravel.

Nothing salves a road rash like cherry pie, which is what these are destined to become in the very near future.

And perhaps while it is baking, I can pick myself up and get back on the spinning wheel.? How is your race going?

Love,

Ellen