My mom ruined her present (kind of)

[evona]

I started knitting washcloths for my mom last weekend. I planned on making a bunch of them for her and getting some really nice soaps and bath stuff for her for Christmas. Then my mom called me on Monday ans asked if I would mind knitting her a couple of washcloths for her birthday, which is coming up on October 10th! Of all the things??!! Was she secretly spying on me? #1 I already got her something else for her birthday and #2 she said she would like blue washcloths and the ones I have done so far are a sort of speckled cream color and I have no blue cotton yarn nor do I currently have much money to go get some (even the little bit it would take for a washcloth unfortunately ) I kind of beat around the bush about it since I didn't want to say that I already was making washcloths for her. I guess my beating around the bush made her think my answer was no so she said "Nevermind sweetie, I would really rather just have a card anyway." So now I feel so bad. I feel like now if I send her the gift I already made her she will think I did it because she asked rather than from my own heart and that the only way to reconcile this is to tell her I was already making her washcloths for Christmas and ruin the present