Secret Cupid

So, first of all, last night did not turn out how I had planned. Shortly after posting I got an IM from a friend suggesting we go out for dinner. So I put on my shoes (really should have worn my snow boots!) and headed out to the North End to meet him. The weather was pretty bad yesterday - lots of snow-ice-rain-slush all day, and everything was so quiet it was really unbelievable. We got right into our favorite pizza place which always has a line and then went out for coffee and dessert at my favorite cafe - there were about 8 people there total!

But getting back to the title of this post and the knitting....

A few of my knitting friends decided to have a little swap for Valentine's Day where we would knit for each other and call it Secret Cupid, and tonight was our reveal party. Let it be known that I already had figured out who my SC was since everyone seems to trust me (no idea why!) and I knew who everyone's pal was!

However, the project she knit for me was still totally unexpected.



Yes, the fab Catherine was my partner and she knit me a star pillow! The yarn is for some Norwegian socks that she also gave me a pattern for.

And she also knit me mittens!




And this is what I gave:



Pattern: Cable Twist
Yarn: Artyarns Supermerino #106

You can see I had a little problem with the colors, one of my three skeins was missing the garnet and had purple instead. But Alexis likes them anyway. :)