I shop at thrift stores a lot. Really, a lot. Clothes, books, décor items, cookware, raw materials for my shop; most of the goods I buy come from second hand shops. This is partly because I am cheap and refuse to pay full price for new when perfectly serviceable things are available used. Mostly, however, I shop at thrift stores because they can offer some hidden gems found nowhere else.
Sometimes these gems are beautiful and unique vintage clothing, or quality kitchenware for a bargain, and sometimes it's yarn. Beautiful, irresistible, yarn. Yarn that I don't yet have a project for, yarn that is almost certainly discontinued and hard to find more of. Yarn that I inevitably buy. I may have a yarn problem.
So when you find awesome yarn on clearance and can't decide which color you like you get two balls of each, right? And then you jump through a bunch of mental hoops trying to come up with a project that uses four colors evenly, right? That's normal, isn't it?
At least for this batch I limited myself to one ball of each color. But the tin of buttons and beads probably erases any anti-hoarder cred that may have gotten me.
Imagine my disappointment when I realized those two big squishy hanks only almost matched. Clearly it didn't stop me from getting them and a bunch of mismatched mohair as well. Someday I'll make a Frankenstein Sweater out of all my single skeins of mohair.
Speaking of mohair, how am I supposed to turn down a ball big enough to make a whole sweater on its own? Surely this is the one instance where I can buy one discontinued ball on clearance and not need to scour ebay for another when it runs out before I've finished whatever I knit with it.
Yes, I have a definite weakness for pretty yarn, and pretty purple yarn in particular. I wish pictures could convey how soft and squishy that big hank is.
