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Hodge-Podge #1

The yarn lot I purchased with the buy-it-now option just arrived in a very nice giant ziplock bag; let's see if I got what I paid for.

There are twenty skeins, just as the listing photo showed. They have a faint bit of storage odor, but otherwise they're nice and clean.

There are nine new cake skeins of Sweet Roll in Cinnamon Pop, which sell at my Wal-Mart for $7.99 each. These are the reason I was willing to purchase the lot outright; 6 of them made my money back.

The seven unused skeins of Herrschners Worsted 8 (4 in True Red, 2 in Meadow, and 1 in Burnt -- Herrschners, you need to work on your color names) retail for $4.97 each.

The large gold skein at the top came without a label, but it's a worsted and definitely worth $5.00 resale. The Grundl Pretty are discontinued; I found two of them selling on eBay for $13.95. The Premier Anti-Pilling Everyday DK retails for $4.99. Altogether the retail value of this lot is $130.64; I paid $49.99 with a penny shipping. I saved $80.64 by thrifting this yarn.

Having the nine multiples in the Sweet Roll yarn was my primary object; I really like this yarn and the striping colors are very me. I've also never worked with the Herrschners yarn so I'm interested to try that. Bottom line, quite happy with the lot.

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