When I was growing up, my great-grandmother, GG, used to knit me wonderful things. Sweaters, mittens, balaclavas (hey - when you're a kid growing up with Maine winters, you need as many layers of warmth as possible so you can stay outside all day building the ultimate snow fort). I would pick out a pattern and some yarn, and a few weeks later, a new sweater would be delivered to my doorstep. The local yarn shop stocked a great selection of Bartlettyarns, spun in Harmony, Maine since since 1821, and because they had such wonderful colors, this is what I usually chose. The yarn had a very distinct smell to it - a cozy, wooly sort of smell that I will forever associate with my GG. Recently my aunt sent me a box of yarn from GG's house, and in it I found small leftover bits of yarn from all of the sweaters she knit for me, still smelling faintly as I remembered.
 
So when I decided I wanted to weave some fabric to make myself a wool jacket, I emailed Bartlett and requested a color card. It arrived in short order, and the colors were just as wonderful as I remembered them to be. I planned out my project, placed my order, and they shipped out my yarn immediately. When the box arrived and I opened it up, the smell was exactly the same as I remembered. The dark brown heathered yarn has the most amazing little flecks of color. Off to warp the loom to make my GG jacket!