Green Yarn Lost and Found
I crocheted for my new book just about everywhere—at basketball games, at the Tuesday quilting bee, and at Dairy Queen. Maybe I’m the only person who crochets at our local Dairy Queen, because when a green ball of yarn was accidentally left on a bench there, one of my daughter’s friends knew it must be mine.
Unfortunately, the friend didn’t pick it up for me, but at least I knew where it had fallen out of my overstuffed yarn bag. After checking at Dairy Queen twice, I met only one person who remembered the green yarn. She couldn’t find it anywhere.
I needed that green yarn. It was Cascade 220, green #7814, a spring-like green with a bluish tint. It was the perfect green for a project in the book, and no other green yarn would do!
A few days later, I awoke before the alarm went off (so you know this yarn thing was bothering me). “Today,” I thought, “I am going to order green #7814 from the Knitting Nest in Austin. They have all the Cascade 220 colors, and it will be here in a couple of days and I can finish that project.”
We got ready for the day, and my girls and I started for the door on the way to school. Oops. The door wouldn’t open. We tried one thing, then another. We tried all the usual door-opening things, like taking the doorknob off and pulling out the catch (it wouldn’t budge). My dad came over and tried opening it from the outside. No joy.
I sighed and my shoulders slumped dejectedly. “Let’s move stuff from my sewing room so we can get out the back door,” I said sadly. If you saw my sewing room, you would understand.
We did. Everyone got to school on time. Charles and my dad had to take the door off the hinges so they could replace the catch. Luckily Dad saves stuff like door catches, so they found a replacement in his workshop.
I came back home to the bags and boxes from the sewing room. “I should deal with all these instead of just stuffing them back into the room,” I thought. “What’s in here, anyway?” I asked about one paper bag.
I peeked in. There was… green Cascade 220. Eva and I used it to make samples for a book we proposed a couple of years ago. Wow. It sure looked like green #7814. Could it be? I got out my notebook with labeled samples of yarns for my book. Flip, flip, flip. Ah. There was the Cascade 220 page. There was green #7814. And… AND… It was a match!
There are silver linings!