Free To Good Home
Jul. 26th, 2008 07:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaFree to good home: a whole bunch of acrylic yarn.
Story: back in the long ago and far away, I participated in a yarn swap with a lady in Canada. Due to a miscommunication (which I am not entirely sure was completely unintentional on her part) I ended up paying about $20 extra for the shipping on her package - which was quite large, but completely full of cheap acrylic yarn from the Canuck equivalent of JoAnns, rather than the 50/50 cotton/acrylic blend I was promised. (This is one reason I have not participated in any crafting swaps since.) Being a packrat, and not wanting to feel completely ripped off, I have kept the yarn around for many, many years. In the process of going through my stash to catalog it for Ravelry, having become even more of a yarn snob in my old age, and with a new yarn shipment coming in, I have come to the decision that this stuff Needs To Go. There's also some old acrylic stuff I picked up when it was being clearanced out at Michaels, back when I worked there ($1.00/skein - 30% employee discount = really cheap yarn).
Contents:
About a skein of fluffy red bulky-weight yarn, no label, probably enough for a skinny scarf About a skein of the same yarn in a red/green Yule colorway, no label One skein sport-wight off-white yarn, no label, very soft and slightly fuzzy About a skein of bright green yarn with a metallic silver binding thread, worsted weight, no label Three skeins identical winter-white slubby yarn, light worsted weight, no label Three skeins identical winter-white worsted-weight yarn; Two have labels identifying them as "Familia 50g" and 146 yards per skein. One partially-undone and rewrapped skein of what appears to be the same yarn as the previous entry, but I'm not 100% sure; it's worsted weight A small handwound ball of a very soft, very fuzzy azure blue worsted weight Four 8 oz. skeins Red Heart Super Saver in teal; no yardage listed, still in wrapper Three 8 oz. skeins Perfect Match in Evergreen; no yardage listed, still in wrapper A partial skein of Paton's Beehive, 75% acrylic 25% wool, bulky weight, ivory color
The catch: whoever wants it has to take the whole bag. No fair asking for just one kind, unless you agree with someone else to split it and I don't have to worry about it. And I'm not shipping this anywhere. You come pick it up, or we arrange to meet somewhere and I hand it off.
Any takers?
Story: back in the long ago and far away, I participated in a yarn swap with a lady in Canada. Due to a miscommunication (which I am not entirely sure was completely unintentional on her part) I ended up paying about $20 extra for the shipping on her package - which was quite large, but completely full of cheap acrylic yarn from the Canuck equivalent of JoAnns, rather than the 50/50 cotton/acrylic blend I was promised. (This is one reason I have not participated in any crafting swaps since.) Being a packrat, and not wanting to feel completely ripped off, I have kept the yarn around for many, many years. In the process of going through my stash to catalog it for Ravelry, having become even more of a yarn snob in my old age, and with a new yarn shipment coming in, I have come to the decision that this stuff Needs To Go. There's also some old acrylic stuff I picked up when it was being clearanced out at Michaels, back when I worked there ($1.00/skein - 30% employee discount = really cheap yarn).
Contents:
The catch: whoever wants it has to take the whole bag. No fair asking for just one kind, unless you agree with someone else to split it and I don't have to worry about it. And I'm not shipping this anywhere. You come pick it up, or we arrange to meet somewhere and I hand it off.
Any takers?
