Mystery Yarn Ball

I received my Mystery Yarn Ball from Joyce in NH! She is so sneaky, inside of the ball, I found another ball of yarn, so she is keeping my very busy. The chocolate was yummy and the tea was very good. And, she included a recipe for Swedish Meatballs that was delicious, everybody here loved them. Thank you Joyce!

My mystery ball

I received my mystery ball a while ago but just forgot to post on this blog. D'oh!
I haven't yet finished the project as it was a lovely felted bag and I am awaiting the sewing skills of my mum so she can line it for me. I promise that when it is 100% complete I will show all.
I am afraid that the excitment of the mystery over took me and I forgot to take a picture before any unravelling began,

My ball after aboout 1/3 of the yarn was unravelled.

These were the first two items to be revealed.

Here is the loot contained within the yarn, except the chocolate bar (very nice dark chocolate)and the glow in the dark vampire teeth (quickly swiped by karl, 24 going on 4! who had a whale of time with them) and the sugar and cream cotton. Also pictured is the ball of yarn once items were removed. I had great fun unwinding the yarn and loved the book - i have read it now nad it was really good, just shame that the series is not available in the UK. I also really liked the bunjy bookmark - which can be seen in use on the book. I am always loosing bookmarks because they fall out of the pages but this is brilliant. An excellent idea and I use it all the time!

Thank-You!

My Mystery Yarn Ball

My Mystery Yarn Has Arrived!

I just received my mystery yarn ball package today. Beautiful yarn, flower pattern washcloth to knit, Hershey's kisses popping out, which hubby kept snitching. Plus a stich holder popped out too! I will need to get the correct needles (something I need to start buying up) and will be starting to knit soon, of course with hubby's help. Thanks to my mystery lady.

Just a quick thank you to Shell for my package. Simple deduction and some blogging and my mystery was solved, (at least I hope it was). I love your yarns. Hubby loved the kisses.

The greatest friend ever !!!

Guess who that is????

Yes, it's Jane! We "met" on another group, the Knitted Purse Swap, and have been talking all summer on the net. And now my gift from Jane has arrived! And what a gift. I had to sit down while unpacking!


And take a close look at the back....YEAH!!! It's a mystery ball! I have been sighing to Jane about being to late to join this, and as she IS an angel ( I am now convinced of it!!!), she has sent me one. And I am knitting and knitting and having so much fun. To be honest....I don't think I have had such fun ever!!! Thank you so much, Jane, for ypour friendship, and for lifting me up now when I really needed it! You've not only made my day, but I believe this will last until Christmas, at least !! :-)

Mystery Ball! complete with extra mystery!

I got my mystery ball last Friday. Here is what I found in the package - a huge ball of yarn - a nice card - a pattern and a book all packed in a Pirates of the Caribbean bag!

So Saturday I start crocheting up the pattern I was sent - I knit and crochet and my partner asked if I would mind a crochet pattern - I let my partner know I had no problem with a Crochet Pattern so that is what I got - here is my progress through Saturday:

I have found a candle, a small holiday scrapbook kit and some yummy body lotion! I finished up the first part of the pattern last night so I cut the yarn and started the second part - then I finished that tonight and had to unwind the green yarn to get to the yarn for the flower on my pattern - so tonight I did the big unwind - look at the amazing amount of loot my partner got in my ball of yarn:

There is a whole ball of yummy SWS for the flower, Chocolate Doubloons, Pirate M&Ms, Cute Pirate Candles, a Book Light, Two sets of of a game called Pirates of the Spanish Main, A tiny sweater, Halloween Stitch Markers, A Skull Ring, Mints and the stuff I mention before - and in the very middle two Babylon 5 Cards:


I guess I better get researching because I have no idea who likes Babylon 5 on the group! Does anyone have a clue for me? I will post pictures of my finished bag once I get everything made and felted Thank you MBSP! I love everything!

Thank you, Jane!

While I was knitting I kept trying to figure out who my secret pal would be. I had a feeling it might be "grammieknits!" It has been so much fun being encouraged to finish this pair of socks while finding wonderful little treasures along the way. I love the wristband Jane knitted! She suggested using it as a bookmarker, or as a wrap around a candle. I like both ideas, but have decided it will be the bookmarker I use while reading "Needled to Death" and other mystery books the group decides to read in the future. Thank you so much Jane for your generous gifts, and for introducing me to the "magic loop" method. For those of you whom have never tried this method you really should try it. You will never go back to using double pointed needles, and possibly never using the two circular needle technique for small projects either. In case you are wondering, I was given permission to unravel the remaining yarn when I completed the pair of socks to find all the gifts and Jane's name.

I mailed my secret pal her mystery ball of yarn this morning. I hope she enjoys all the trinkets I picked out for her. Happy knitting everyone!

Mystery Yarn Ball

I was so excited while gathering up all the goodies for Jane and winding the yarn. I even went up to the North Georgia Mountains to get some strange stuff, like the snake, bracelet, indian arrowheads(yes real ones found on cherokee territory), and the tiny purse hanging on a chain, which I wont say what it's for, until Jane guesses...lol. I even sent it to one of our member, Kim and had her send it from her home address, so Jane would be a little confused until she got to the end of the yarn, where my business card was attached....lol.

I am getting excited not waiting to see what comes in the mail.

Thanks Jane for doing this!

Deb

BORN TO KNIT

I finished the mystery pattern last night (had to tink back a couple of rows in my excitement over seeing the Detroit Tigers beat the NY Yankees and knock them out of the play-offs!) I don't know if you can see what it says - "BORN TO KNIT" - Very clever Deb. Yes, it was from Deb, my very devious SP. She knew that I knew who she was (hard to run a swap and keep that secret from myself) so she put a fake return address on the package to confuse me (she knows that it doesn't take much to confuse me). But in the end, it was her card that the beginning of the skein was wrapped around. And look at all the goodies that came out of the ball! I won't run out of stitch markers for awhile at least and I like the row counter much better than the one I have. I think my favorite is the sheep tape measure, isn't he cute? There are still a couple of mysteries in there though. Like the little red thing - not sure what that is. And are those arrow heads? Thanks you so much Deb - this was so much fun.
Oh, and I am a little bit devious too. I had some yarn left at the end, and instead of knitting more with it, I unwound it to get to the rest of the goodies!

Mystery ball update

I'm halfway through my mystery pattern and this is what has fallen out of the ball so far (yes - that's a snake!) And that brown thing sticking out of the ball of yarn looks like a chestnut - but it's attached to something and I can't pull it out....got to start knitting!

Look what came in the mail......

When I got home from work today there was a box waiting for me on the kitchen table. I thought it was an odd shape for books I ordered from Amazon, and then it dawned on me that it could be one of my swaps. I'm in the Tote II Exchange also. When I opened the box, I had the most pleasant surprise. I heard about the Magic Loop from my swap partner, but could not find them in any of the local stores. So, I thought I'd probably order them online EVENTUALLY. Well, no need to do that, because my very wonderful swap partner has sent me a pair. I can't wait to get started on the pattern she included so I can discover what she's wraped inside the ball of a yarn, and to find out who she is so I can properly thank her. For now, I'm sure she's checking the blog so THANK YOU!

My Mystery Ball has Arrived!

I'm excited! I came home from work (TGIF) and found a package with my mystery ball in it. Am I the first to receive one??? It is quite funny looking! And there is also a mystery pattern. In fact it is such a mystery that it doesn't even say what size needles to use. But I am a good whoduknit sleuth, and it appears to be worseted weight cotton, so I'm guessing a 6 or 7 will work (Kelly has nothing on me when it comes to unravelling a mystery LOL). Well - I really can't wait - so I will cast on tonight, and maybe by tomorrow I will have uncovered all of the treasures! I have to post a couple of pictures so you can see the ball from both sides - it is just jam packed. Thank you SP!

Jane