Last summer I went to a hotel and I left my bathing suit there… wait, be patient, this IS a Made by Hand story. Really.
So anyway, I left my bathing suit at the hotel, but I remembered in time to call them and go back and get it. They put it in a plastic bag with a little label saying “left behind” and I grabbed that, tossed it into my van, and drove back home. And never saw the bathing suit again. I mean, I searched for it, everywhere. Cleaned out my van. Overturned the house. But the thing was nowhere to be seen.
While at the same hotel, a friend of mine from PA had given me some Made by Hand items. I dutifully brought them out at our next knitting meeting here, and we all oohed and ahhhed over them. My duty discharged by handing them to kisknit, I forgot about them.
You’ve probably already figured out how these stories merge.
I was going through my stash, entering it on Ravelry, when I found a bag in the corner that wasn’t yarn. Oh …. it was a bag of Made by Hand items! Guilt! Guilt! They had somehow gotten pushed back into my stash after knitting and never donated last year. So of course, they are being added to the things for this year (and I have apologized PROFUSELY to my friend in PA).
I opened up the bag so I could take pictures, and lo and behold, on top of all the other neat ziploc bags and labels… there was the plastic bag with my bathing suit in it. Which was pretty much the last place I ever expected to find it!
