Gratitude

I remember life before e-mail and the Internet were part of our world. (Well, maybe the feds and super-geeks were using them for a while. By "our" I mean "you know--regular non-fed non-super-geek people like you and me.") I've used them to keep in touch with (and sometimes reinitiate communication with) old friends, to make new friends, to learn more than I ever did in a classroom (what would I do without Wikipedia and my RSS reader?), and to swap postcards and yarn with complete strangers. And now they've helped me acquire two back issues of the very excellentInterweave Knits.

I stumbled upon Knitterature (via a comment in my friend Beth's blog), where I read JD's offer of two surplus copies of IW (Winter 2005 and Spring 2006--the two right before my own subscription started) to anyone who wanted them. I asked if they were still available, and they were. She sent them to me (refusing anything in return), and they arrived yesterday.

I've already flipped through both issues and done the "Could I knit that?" and "Would I wear that?" interrogation about each piece. (This, of course, is followed by the "Can I afford the yarn called for in this pattern?" to which the response is invariably "Are you kidding?" Why does IW think their readership is able and willing to drop hundreds of dollars on materials for a project? Gah...) I'm most drawn to the Bi-Color Cables piece (since I'm now, you know, a bona fide expert on cables...heh). I'm pretty excited about giving this a try.

But mostly I am very grateful to JD for her generosity! Thank you!