EDIT: The lovely yarn that my Santa picked out for me just arrived! It is hand-dyed made-in-Canada yarn from Tanis Fibre Arts, in the Grapefruit colourway (which is beautiful!). I love how squishy and soft it is! I will be making this shawl with it...gonna start next week! shoves all other projects out of the way Thanks so much for your thoughtfulness, Santa! <3

My Santa is a knitter from Canada who clearly doubles up as mind-reader in her spare time (in addition to being an all-round thoughtful & lovely individual!).

She sent me 3 lovely gifts, since good things come in 3s, eh Santa? ;) Part 1 is Poetic Crochet, a recently published book from Interweave Press. First off, I loooooove pretty much all of Interweave's offerings, and WOW, this was the very book that I was eyeing! It was in my Ravelry search history even before you gifted it to me...and I was eyeing the Tyger shawl pattern just yesterday! Love, love, love <3. Thank you so much for your thoughtful gift, I love it so much!

I've highlighted some of my favourite patterns from the book in the photos. You bet that I'm going to start looking around for some yarn specifically for these projects! Grow stash, grow...

Part 2 is another lovely pattern from Sara Kay Hartmann, that will do very nicely for a last-minute gift which I will probably whip up nearing Christmas, and Part 3 is still coming in the mail! (so excited).

I decided to post this up here before waiting for Part 3, owing to my experience with Canada Post: I love the true north strong and free, but the mail service from here to up north took about a month+ the last time..so. I will definitely update this post when it arrives though!

Thank you so much once again, Santa. You did a lovely job and I hope that this weekend turns out fantastic for you and that your Santa is as lovely to you as you were to me! <3