Skip to main content

Thing You Find

When you thrift yarn it sometimes comes with little surprises you don't expect. My most recent discovery was a hank of what looked like human hair in an exotic yarn lot (it's actually a silk and alpaca blend.)

The nastiest surprise of last year was finding a rusting sewing needle stuck in a ball of yarn (another reason why pink is not my favorite color.)

Often crocheters leave their hooks stuck in a skein and then forget about them. I have an entire bag of hooks I've recovered from thrifted skeins.

Knitting needles are more rare to find, but you will get these still attached to a project, too. My arthritis prevents me from knitting, so I donate these to our local church thrift store.

Unfinished projects are common finds as well, often still attached to the skein or ball of yarn used to make them. Last year I finished the final row of this baby blanket that came in a lot of thrifted yarn, and it made me very happy.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mystery Yarn

I love a good mystery, so when Bea (a very close and dear friend) generously gave me a $$$ gift and said "Buy whatever you want" I invested in this mystery sack of destash yarn. Bea also took a peek for me and said I would be very happy with the contents, but I really did wait until December 25th to open the sack and have a look. Here's what I got in the sack: eleven skeins of acrylic, cotton and wool yarn, most slightly used but clean and odor free. I can definitely use all the colors, and I don't have much cotton yarn in my stash, so I was delighted with the variety. I'm planning to make some variations on this granny stitch ripple throw that I made back in October ( free printable pattern here at Yarnspirations ) in 2026 using scrap acrylic yarns, and I want to make more dishcloths and amigurumi toys out of cotton, so I will put everything to good use. :)
Post a Comment
Read more

Introduction

Welcome to my new blog about thrifty crochet. I'm Lynn, and I am passionate about crocheting and thrifting. The picture above shows my most recent yarn thrift, altogether worth about $150.00 retail, which I bought for $8.99. That's the sort of thing I do to acquire the yarn I need for my projects at a price I can afford. I like to crochet anything and everything. Sometimes I'll make something I see in a shop window as I did last month with this cardigan. I also work on simple projects using patterns I find for free online, like this granny stitch ripple afghan. Thrifting yarn is fun, and I have lots of tips on how and where to find what you might need for your projects at very reasonable prices. Stop by again if you'd like to see what I'm up to, how I acquire the yarn for it and more about thrifty crochet. :)
Post a Comment
Read more

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 sam...
Post a Comment
Read more