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Bundles & Basket

Way back in January I purchased this bundle of yarn at our local Goodwill; I needed some of the colors for a project and I'm always looking for variegated yarn, too.

This is what I got in my bundle: eleven skeins of clean, odorless unused and lightly used yarn.

The Dazzleaire was discontinued about forty years ago and now usually sells on eBay for more than I paid for the bundle. Although I don't resell the yarn I thrift, I could easily get $5.00 per skein for the rest of the skeins, so the resale value is at least $55.00. Paying $7.99 for the lot works out to about seventy-two cents a skein.

Please do watch the prices and compare them to retail, as it doesn't make sense to thrift yarn unless you can get it a lot cheaper. Lately Goodwill brick-and-mortar stores seem to be charging more for their yarn bundles; the other day I saw a small bag with three new Red Heart Super Saver skeins for $12.99 at our Goodwill. Retail new is $3.77 at Wal-Mart for the same yarn, which would be $11.31 for three.

I used two of the skeins from this bundle with other colors from my stash to make Jayda InStitches's big beautiful basket; you can find the video tutorial here. It's a good one for a confident beginner.

Here's the finished basket. These work great as project material containers as well as storage around the house; I use them for everything.

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