My apartments have a bitchin' mail room, its own separate building from all the apartments where everyone's boxes are.

Trouble with that, is that I sometimes go a week or so without checking my mail. (Oops!)

At first I didn't get anything, so I signed up for a rematch. Both parties sent me messages (original saying they were sending it, and the rematch wanting to know what I wanted). I asked Redditgifts what to do, and they said to keep my rematch in case the original didn't pan out, or until I got a tracking number.

I told my rematch a little bit about what I was wanting to do with my yarn, and I told her that I have been planning on making summery hats with Chroma yarn, and that I liked to collect Galileo yarns for future projects. (She also asked me what I liked to snack on, and I've got a second tracking number that I can only assume will be my delicious noms. Will update once that package comes, too!)

So, back to the mail room. I hadn't been down there this past week so I decided to go down. Now, next to our regular mailboxes are parcel boxes.

When I opened my mailbox, I found not one, but TWO keys for the parcel boxes!

Fuck yeah! One KnitPicks box in each!

I drove excitedly back to my apartment and opened them both, matching up the boxes and tracking numbers that were on my Redditgifts page.

My original Santa came through and sent me two skeins of Chroma Luau (my favorite!). Making a hat for my mom with one of these, and I'm sure I'll end up making myself a fall scarf with it too!

My second Santa must have done some research, because I never mentioned the Hawthorne yarn to her but lo and behold, a hank of Hawthorne Alameda which I had in my Knitpicks wishlist. Holy shit. It's so gorgeous.

She also included two skeins (? unsure what these little balls are called) of Galileo Quartz, and I'm currently thinking of things I can do with these beauties.

Finally there was a skein of Chroma Prism, which is a crazy fun color and will be super awesome to make my summer hats with!

Now I can hardly wait to get my final package with noms. As mentioned I'll update once that comes!

I am insanely grateful for both of these packages. I signed up to gift someone else as well, since I ended up receiving two gifts myself.

I hope the Yarn Exchange comes back in the future!