Buried in yarn...

[neotoma]

Yesterday, after guild, I hit G-Street Fabrics for some odds and ends towards sanj's birthday present. Of course, I stopped by A C Moore, partly because I needed size 11 dpns, but mainly because it's fun to browse.

They were selling mill ends for $5/lb. A lot of it was actually labelled "100% unknown fiber", which I'm pretty sure meant 'terrible acrylic', but there were bags of cotton yarn too. By color and weight, it looked like Peaches and Cream, though it wasn't labeled that.

So I bought a bag of white, a bag of burgundy, and a bag of variegated pastel. The white and burgundy will be woven into towels and place mats; I'm going to experiment with huck lace and maybe do a few twill gamps. The variegated pastel will be made into a least one garter stitch baby blanket. I have enough yarn that I can probably make two, and still go wild with crocheted trims.

Comments

[leni-jess.livejournal.com]

Do you think anyone will report them to a bunch of government regulatory bodies for that "100% unknown fiber"? It's an amusing solution, but I don't think it'd go down well long-term.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure the mill is Canadian, and I'm kind of surprised that they were able to get away with '100% unknown fiber'. If your record-keeping is so bad that you don't know what your overstock is...

You'd think that customs would have at least raised an eyebrow.

That yarn had that shiny look that acrylic has. The bags were sealed, so I couldn't touch them to get an idea of what the hand was; the cotton was a better deal.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I'm drooling over the idea of all that cheap cotton!

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

It was the store in Rockville, and there were several bags of cotton in the back corner. The only problem with any of it was that a ball in one or two of the bags had what looked like an oil smear on it; even if that won't wash out, the yarn is so cheap that one ball out of pound isn't a major loss.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I can't go buy yarn right now anyway. So I'm working out my ya-yas looking at needles. I like Brittneys because they're smooth... but they're also very easy to write on!