Fast forward to the present. I've just come across this pattern while sorting through paperwork. Nowadays I'm completely familiar with the stitch pattern that is linen stitch, but it happens I've still never made this project. I'm charmed by the idea of something small and neat. I have a vision of making it in Koigu's Painter's Palette Premium Merino, in part because in those bygone years I used to pour over the wall of KPPPM in another vendor's booth, and treat myself to a skein or two. And in part because I want the quick color shifts and tight twist to play with.
I dug into my stash and discovered I have a colorway left, and enough that I can borrow what I need and still have plenty left for a pair of socks.
I wound up the skein
and cast on (and re-cast on, because my gauge was wider than I wanted)
and plunged in.
I never saw that vendor again, and these days there aren't even vendors in that back corner of the Exhibition Hall*. It's also been years since I saw that wall of Koigu. They still make KPPPM - I checked their site - and I see it's $14 these days instead of the $11 I used to spend. The pattern is attributed to Mary Hal Cochran Davis, who the internet informs me died almost a year ago at the age of 90. I can't find her or the pattern on Ravelry, so I'm really glad I kept this bit of paper for all these years.
I have plenty of unfinished objects. But this one is giving me joy right now.
*Because there will be no festival this year, I should mention that when I drove by last month, they were constructing an addition to the Main Exhibition Hall that would about double its space. Something to look forward to!
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