Now It Can Be Told!!

OOOhhhh ... keeping it a secret! I've wanted to share a pic here or there, but just KNEW it would spoil the birthday surprise! So I've quietly knitted these past few weeks a special little gift for a special friend...my ya-ya...N. It's a prayer shawl and it was a totally fun creation! The challenge was making it something special...and trying to encompass ideas and figure out how I was going to 'do something' to it as I went along...it truly was a work in progress! I wanted to incorporate a cross into it...some beads, perhaps...like a talisman. Yesterday, I went to a bead store and found the perfect cross! It's not meant to be a cross, per say... a strand of mother-of-pearl beads shaped like little tiny crosses...not by intent, but by design. My eye saw them as the perfect answer to what I was imagining! So last night I finished the 'fun fur' fringe and added a strand of matching-colored beads surrounding this pretty little pearl 'cross'... The colors are true N... Monet's Water Lillies... and as she wrapped it around her sholders at lunch today, she looked absolutely beautiful in it... I hope it brings her as much joy as it did me... Happy, happy Birth Day, N !!
......love, your 'beef'