Heavens to Heather March 8, 2013

I was walking down the street one day…

Well, actually, I was relaxing at a bus stop on the north side of Portland, enjoying the clear blue sky, a sparkling view of Mt St Helens, the spring air in my face. Hmmm.

A lady walked into the little bus shelter across from me and started unloading a paper bag into a knapsack.

Her hair was a fluffy grassy color; what she was unloading was slightly more subtle but still in tone matching: incredible green YARN!!

I could not resist and had to butt in: “Where’d ya get that yarn?!”

“Oh, at a garage sale around the corner…” (More & more skeins flying into her sack).

By this time I was standing right by her haul – don’t remember moving.

Oooh. Lovely Harrisville worsted. A lot.

And I was suddenly in the basement of a little bungalow rousting around in a big basket:

For 10 dolla: 5 skeins Harvest Gold, 3 skeins Sky Blue, 1 Skein Marigold, and one orangey-nasturtium colored one-ply skein.

HEATHER HEAVEN!

What’s even more shivering my timbers is that these colors are still being offered (in various updated *new* hipper names and lines) on their site.

It’s Friday and I’m f.i.n.e.