My Secret Santa is fantastic. So fantastic, in fact, that I'm almost afraid to post about this here in case everyone else is suddenly disappointed by their own gifts (and I've looked through the gallery--I know you guys are getting a bunch of great stuff!).

So it turns out that my Santa lives only a half an hour away from me. She sent me a message asking if maybe I'd like to meet up to do the exchange in person, and so we set up a time and a place. I went to Starbucks this afternoon to get a little work done and meet up with her. Just as I'm completely losing interest in the paper I'm supposed to be writing, in strolls u/starzphalling with a giant blue tub.

Yes, that's correct--a tub. A TUB of yarn. I opened it up and I see at least seven skeins of sock yarn. Another layer underneath is also full of sock yarn (why yes, I do knit a lot of socks). Under that, some gorgeous pink Araucanía and a bunch of different colors of some wonderfully soft soy silk. Under that? Some more silk, some mohair, some bamboo, some merino... I won't walk you through all of the layers, but I just kept saying, "more? There's more?" There were at least 5 layers of beautiful, luscious yarn in this tub.

So, basically the best yarn exchange ever. So. much. yarn. Not only that, she put a lot of thought into this--it was clearly tailored towards the colors I like as well as my love of self-striping sock yarn and natural fibers! I'm never going to have to buy another pair of socks again. In fact, I may just quit school and knit full-time, because that's all I want to do now. Who wants a pair of socks?

P.S. I happen to know that she's also signed up as a rematcher...so anyone reading this who thinks you might have been stiffed by your Santa, cross your fingers!