give a little ... get a little .....

so, i was perusing ravelry ... as i often do. and one of my 'friends' had queued a pattern for a lovely lovely shawl called the jessie lambdim shawl. it has one of my favorite lace motifs, rose trellis lace. the pattern is available as a $4.50 pdf download, or better yet .... as a trade.

i decided to trade. sure, i have $4.50 in my account, but i think a story is a much more equal commodity.

the pattern, all the history, and trade information, is here ....

i urge you to trade. here's (one of many of) the snippet(s) i shared with emily ....

"ignacita: she fell off a crate box and sprained her ankle. as a child she was full of energy and always jumping everywhere. a short time later she fell off a tree and sprained her ankle again. mother used to rub volcanic oil and wrap her ankle but she used to take the wraps off. volcanic oil was used for everything in those days and is the equivalent to the bengay of our day. when she was 11 years old she was limping. at the time there was a person called the "senor". dad and mother said that he must have been an apostle or jesus himself. ignacita was staying with tio tomas and tia teofila casuas. prescilliana was staying with them also. they liked to go visit them. tia teofila was limping so tio tomas heard that the senor was coming down the road in a wagon with some indians and tio tomas told tia "let's go to the road to meet the senor and we'll ask him to heal ignacita and you". so they went. the senor got off the wagon and talked to them. tio told the senor we want for you to heal ignacita. the senor picked ignacita up, put his hands on her ears and picked her up and asked her if she had faith in god. ignacita was 11 years old and she didn't answer him. the senor put her down and said you will never walk. you will be like that until you die. the senor told tia teofila she was born with one leg shorter than the other that's why she was limping. he said he couldn't do anything for her. the place was fifty miles from blanco called lajara near govenordor. ignacita said that the senor was dressed like the pictures of the sacred heart of jesus and wore sandals. "

that snippet is the recollection of my grandmother, benina horta.

ps. i just made the connection that emily johnson is also the designer for the marjorie pattern on the latest knitty.com.