Random story.

I'm blogging from my phone, so this will be brief, but I HAD to share.

Three years ago (four years ago? I can't remember, it's been so long) there was a yarn store in a little town south of the metro area that closed. In their closeout sale, I snagged four skeins of Jaimesons Shetland dk, in a lovely shade called green mist. I had 700 yards and frequently lamented that there wasn't *quite* enough to do something with. I tried making a Honeycomb vest, leg warmers and a few various other things, but nothing ever felt right so I tucked it away into the stash, thinking maybe I'd use it for baby something someday.

Fast-forward to today.

I'm knitting a cardigan (which is almost at a point interesting enough to show pictures!) and I had the day off work so I decided to go button shopping. I took my swatch for color-matching purposes and hit Joanns, Hancock Fabric, and finally a little place called Fabric Recycles, which is a consignment craft store of sorts, where you can resell fabric, buttons, yarn, notions, patterns -- you name it, they've got it, for very reasonable prices (shout out to my friend Clare who told me the name of it so I could Google for their hours.) I found some buttons that were potentially suitable and took them to the counter. I chatted with the clerk a bit, asked what she thought of the color choice I made, and while she was ringing up my purchase, I turned to look at the yarn display, which was behind me.

Right on top, directly in my line of sight, was a skein of light green yarn. It looked familiar, so I picked it up. Sure enough, it was the Jaimesons dk, in a color very like the four skeins that have been sitting in my stash all this time. It was a reasonable $6 so I bought it, thinking even if it wasn't the same, I could do stripes or something.

I brought it home and rooted around in the stash for a bit, and finally uncovered the four skeins. They were in a space bag with a bunch of other yarns, so I massaged and maneuvered the bag and the yarn inside until I could see the tag.

YOU GUYS. It was not only the same yarn, in the same colorway, but the SAME DYE LOT.

I have looked on Rav, through stashes and yarn for sale, trying to find another skein so I could actually DO SOMETHING with it.

I'm taking it as a sign that I am supposed to knit a vest.