Second Lot Numbers

I bid on two lots of yarn back in March, hoping I would get one of them. As it happened I got both, and this is the second lot which was listed as a lot of 12. There were 15 skeins I counted in the other photos of the lot, so someone missed a few.

The other thing that I really liked was the individual pics that followed the listing main photo. All of the skeins are still labeled, which allowed me to look up the retail for almost the entire lot before I bid. The two peachy Yarn Bee skeins on the left here are even marked $5.49 each. The Patons silk bamboo is $6.99 retail. Yarn Art Jeans cotton yarn is $2.59 new.

The fibre, weight and color variety of the yarns also intrigued me. Here's baby, worsted and chenille skeins.

I saw Caron One Pound Yarn for $14.99 a skein over at Wal-Mart the other day. There are two of them in this lot.

The main reason I bid on this lot was the big skein of white yarn on the right here, which I need to finish my granny square throw. But I don't mind getting all this other, beautiful yarn as a bonus, especially when I paid just $16.00 for the entire lot. Thrift your yarn, friends. :)

Images credit: all of the pics in this post were taken from the original auction listing at ShopGoodwill.com.

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Stuff

After finding this Caron one pound skein of lovely peach yarn in my thrifted lot I raided my stash for two cakes of Mandala in Pegasus, which matches it perfectly. For practice and hand therapy I'm going to make another Worth Street Afghan with this free pattern , but this time I'll use the yarn that was recommended for it plus the one pound skein. I'm not quite ready to do the vintage/recycled linen quilt I had planned (still a bit too nervous about the idea), so I'm going to use some color therapy and make a quilt from these thrifted green fat quarters. I considered doing another Yellow Brick road patchwork pattern, but I might go with a split rail fence like this one.

Better than Fried

I cut some chives from the kitchen garden to make garlic-chive baked fries for dinner. This is a great side dish for veggie burgers. Click here for the recipe from Taste of Home.com.

The Mercantile

If you don't mind walking 33K square feet in retail space, The Mercantile may be the vintage/arts store you'd enjoy visiting if you're ever in Orlando. I certainly did. Because it was busy I didn't take any photos in the store, but it's absolutely amazing and chock full of antiques and artisan creations, most of which were pretty reasonably priced. For $21.00 I invested in a picture of sailboats for the guest bathroom I'm redoing, and a fairy mystery jar of cool stuff. The jaw was hand-painted and decorated, and utterly charming. I think I wanted the jar more than the contents. As you can see the contents were both generous and pretty cool, too. I finally have some vintage gloves to use for my art quilter bingo challenge!

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