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During our visit to Goodwill in Oxford I found a bundle of five skeins of yarn for $4.18. While I didn't need any yarn, I grabbed it right away because I recognized some discontinued yarn that is very hard to find now.

For less than five bucks I scored three skeins of sashay yarn (four if you want to count the Sundance as the same), which retails for very big bucks these days as Red Heart has stopped production on it.

These yarns are actually wide ribbons of mesh that you can crochet on one side to make a ruffled project.

I looked up current prices for all the skeins; the Just Yarn tweed is $1.25, of course, and the Sundance Frill for the Cure pink skein runs about $9.50 per skein. But the Sashay yarns are $12.99, $14.60, and $16.70 to buy from eBay and Amazon. Total retail on the whole bundle would be $55.04.

Needless to say it was a super nice thrift. :)

I'm planning to experiment with this yarn and see if I can bypass the usual ruffled scarf project it was used for and instead make some wraps out of it. Stay tuned to the blog the see what I make of it.

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