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What I Found

This is the yarn lot I got for $7.99 from the online auction. It is a bit of a mess, but there was very little smell and no serious soiling (I expected worse from the listing description.) It was also filled with little crochet and knitting treasures, including four incomplete projects, nineteen skeins of yarn, a cone of light blue chenille yarn, and three scrap balls or partial skeins.

The original owner evidently had a habit of sticking her crochet hooks in a skein, so I was the lucky recipient of two nice new ones.

Here's the other.

Also two pair of these connected knitting needles.

The other treasures are two stitch markers, a package of brand new bamboo knitting needles, a jumbo pair of knitting needles, and two blunted yarn needles (I don't own any, so I was super happy about finding these.)

What I thought was a granny square turned out to be a nice-size baby blanket made with granny stitch in a ripple pattern. Since I have some of the yarn used to make it I'm going to finish the last row so that it's a completed piece.

The yarn that is tangled will be easy to sort out, and I can use everything except the knitting needles, which I will donate to the church thrift. I'd put a resale value on this lot of $67.00, or $3.00 a skein plus $10.00 for the treasures and baby blanket. I paid $7.99, or forty-two cents a skein with everything else free. Thrift your yarn, my friends. :)

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