Two christmases ago I sent one of MMario's pieces to Barb'ry. It was oblong and could be a table runner or a light summery shawl, and it was of a varigated white to green cotton thread. Didn't she make it over to the Getaway three years ago? I think that's why it seemed like such a good choice of gifts--since she'd already met the artist who crochetted it. Maybe this is enough of a boost to get her back across the pond, to bring her shawl (thought she might have to move the vase and the lamp off of it for a little while. . . )

SRS