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Ulrika ([personal profile] akirlu) wrote2012-06-13 09:51 pm

Little Victories

Knitting group did not seem to be there when I stopped by Panera tonight. So I swung by St. Vincent de Paul for a quick troll through. I picked up a couple of unworn summer weight shirts, one 100% linen, and then prowled through the crafty bin and picked up a bag of highly promising-looking yarn. Highly promising is right. It was clearly meant to be a sock-making kit from the (sadly, now defunct) Local Yarn Store -- a pair of pre-wound skeins, one larger, for the main body of the socks, plus a smaller, for contrast toe-and-heel, plus a sock pattern and a business card, all nicely bundled together in a fancy gift bag. The larger skein still had its original wrapper in the middle. It's hand-painted, DK weight superwash merino yarn, thank you very much. (And for non-yarn people, it also had the original price on the wrapper -- $26 for the skein.) Anyone wanna guess what I paid? Two. Bucks.

And it's pristine. This stuff is so well kept, it still has that lovely, wooly, yarn store smell to it. Oh, boy, fancy sock yarn.

[identity profile] replyhazy.livejournal.com 2012-06-14 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
YARN SCORE!!

You has Mad Shopping Skillz!!
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[identity profile] akirlu.livejournal.com 2012-06-14 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh, thanks. I did feel like a pretty mighty hunter last night, for sure.

[identity profile] apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com 2012-06-15 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
“hand-painted”?
Us civilians didn't even know you could paint yarn in the first place.
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[identity profile] akirlu.livejournal.com 2012-06-20 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, not when it's molting, obviously.