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Hobbii Delivers Happiness

Thanks to the excellent sales Hobbii has been offering I was able to order a bunch of new yarn at thrift store prices, so that's where May's thrifting budget went. I also wanted to invest in a couple more of their lucky bags to see what new-to-me yarns I would get to try and review on the blog, as I really enjoyed testing that Lpalats yarn that my friend sent me.

The smaller package held this two pack of sock wool print yarn, which was a previous Black Friday special.

The colors (Sky) are just beautiful -- like Florida summer and winter skies in two skeins. :)

The bigger package held the bulk of my order: two lucky bags, another ten pack of We Heart Yarn in a beautiful Peacock blue, a skein of Azalea cotton blend yarn in Persil green and blue, and a skein of Silly Socks in a superwash wool in the color Magic Trick.

I debated for a bit over whether to get the Cotton Kings or the Azalea to try, and I went with the latter because the colorway really appealed to me. This is a very fine four-stranded yarn that is a cotton/acrylic blend, which I think I'll like more than 100% cotton too.

The acrylic lucky bag held a lot of chuckles for me: five skeins of Happy Chunky Fine chenille yarn (two in Old Rose, two in Grey, and one in Jeans Blue), one ball of Boucle in Forest Green, one ball of Steviedoodle in a lovely lavender called Pepe, and three skeins of Soft Lash (one in Cotton Candy and two in Black.) I also got a little candy in this bag. I think the Universe is sending me a message about my dislike of boucle and eyelash yarn, so I will definitely have to make something out of those to see if I can get over myself.

I ordered a lucky Shine bag that had 500 grams of mixed shiny yarn, and this did not disappoint -- on the contrary. I'm like a magpie when it comes to shiny things. :)

The variety was awesome: a big skein of Honey Bunny Shine in Lemon Curd, which has to be the prettiest shimmering chenille yarn I've ever seen, four balls of Metallico (two in Rose Gold, one in Burgundy, and one in Mystic Black), one ball of Metallico Fine in Dark Gold, one ball of Pearly Haze in Americano, and a cake of Universe in Orion.

This should keep me busy in May with side projects to test the yarn when I take breaks from my current WIP. Stay tuned to the blog to see how the yarns work for me.

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