Saturday, August 14, 2010

I received my kit

hsks11-flowers

That's the sight greeting me when I opened the package, lots of lovely, handknit flowers and leaves plus some paper leaves. The smaller flowers are brooches, the black one (hidden under a leave on the pic) is already on the lapel of my purple jacket.

hsks11-wrapped

Below, I found a folder with a timetable for our summer camp, plus patterns for the handmade items, instructions for camp crafts etc. All the little packages inside had times on them and held items needed for the activities at that time. That was a really nice idea and gave me some insight into what a summer camp could be like. I've never been to one.

hsks11-all

That's everything unwrapped, I'll try to list it all here: handknit sunflowers, leaves, flower brooches, a flower necklace (red flower with dark green on the pic), a crochet wrist band, 3 wooden dinos for my little house elf Philipp, Creole seasoning mix, Graham crackers and marshmallows (to make smores), stitch markers and a knitting magazine. And of course yarn and beads and pattern to make the Lady of the Wood fingerless mittens by Ann Kingston. The yarn is KnitPicks Shimmer, an alpaca silk blend, I can't wait to knit with it. And the colour is perfect for me.

hsks11-marker

Here is a slightly blurry close up of the stitch markers, cute little leaves and flowers.

Thank you so much Poppy for this beautiful kit, I love every single item in it. And Philipp loves the dinos, he had them all assembled within 5 minutes and hasn't stopped playing with them since.

Now I'm off to fondle the yarn and look through the patterns, please excuse me.

4 comments:

Kristin said...

The little flowers can be changed out with the red one on your necklace too. I am so glad you like it!

Selana said...

I've noticed that, but the black one was just what I needed for my purple corduroy blazer

Emma

J-Mi said...

Awesome kit! ♥ Genevra

nmlehner said...

Wow what an awesome kit! And what an amazing place to live! My husband is enfactuated with all things German! We and I mean he and I actually took German 1 in college! :) Guten Morgen!