Drive by Blgging: A Twisted Pair
Early in 2013, one of my friends posted a notice on Facebook announcing a Pay-it-Forward. The way it works is that she had signed up to receive something from one of her friends and in return would knit five things for other people who signed up, if those five people would agree to make five things for the people who signed up for them and so on. I signed up to receive something from my friend and posted a notice on my Facebook wall asking for people who wanted to receive something from me and in return make five gifts for others. One of the people who signed up was my husband's best friend, which caught me a bit by surprise as I don't know him very well. As soon as he signed up, I went to my default knitting gift for guys: a hat. Husband did some recon and came back with "black." Oh, yippee. (Sarcasm.) Black is boring, and I had to do something to make it more interesting or I would die with boredom before the hat was done. Enter...