The
Ankh-Morpork Knitters Guild group on Ravelry (who brought you
the Pratchgan) had a swap with the theme of
Igor. Igor, on the Discworld, is a compendium of all of the monster movie assistant cliches, from hump to limp to lisp, but amended by Terry Pratchett to include surgical prowess in the service of self- and world-improvement. This translated into a swap focused on leftover stash, candy shaped like body parts, and typing everything using th instead of s, leading to sentences in forum posts like "having done quite a bit of Thubbthtituting, i would pothtulate that motht teacherth would gladly JOIN the Aththathinth Guild, if allowed to…um… practhithe, ath it were, on their chargeth."
I took part in a very informal swap back in knitlist days, and got nothing in return, so I was shy about the whole idea. But the Igor Thwap was so appealing that I took the plunge. And today I got a package.
In it was a card
Some lovely hand-dyed yarn and a scarf that is actually a spare brain.
(good thing I already have a spare brain receptacle!) The spare brain came with spare yarn, too, for emergency surgery.
Some chocolate hearts and a bar of lime-lavender soap!
Thank you, Ambala, for a very enjoyable thwap!
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