Yarn Over Earrings

If you do, if you knit – you get “yarn over”. To the uninitiated it’s all a mystery. Everything yarn, knitting, is a puzzle. I have great respect for what you do. One of our serious knitters at Cross, Joan, took one look and said, “Call these earrings Yarn Over.”

You know what you feel when you hold a skein of yarn – its spongy, soft texture. You know what you feel standing before a wall of a rainbow of colors. You know the possibilities, you sense what could be made and to whom you would give the scarves and mittens you will be knitting.

What do these earrings look like? Think shrimp on a tray at a party. They’re arranged in a circle, tails curved, curled and there in the center is the dipping sauce. No we’re not going into the sauce. You, standing with your glass of white wine, holding a shrimp, realizing your Yarn Over earrings look like the swirly curls on the shrimp tray. You know because your earrings are gold, they will be cherished by someone in your family for hundreds of years. The shrimp tray…gone in an hour.

Why Gold?

Because gold is gold. Gold is eternal. It gleams and glows. Gold lasts forever. When you wear gold, you feel its rarity. When you wear gold, you feel its preciousness. When you wear gold, all who see you know. They simply know.

The Price: A Good Value

Yes, you look, $645 seems like a lot. Truth: they are gold and 1,000 years from now they stand a good chance of still being around – because they are gold. Yes, a granddaughter 50 generations from now will wear them. One way to look at it: they will only cost 65 cents a year over these 1,000 intervening years. Your granddaughter will appreciate your decision.