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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