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Strategic Mystery Pack

After watching a Mary Maxim unboxing on Knotty by Maxine, I decided to wait for another decent sale or discounted shipping to try another pack, and to order some yarns I want for a project and to test. I wanted more of the Serenity Chunky Tweed, and from what Maxine got in her pack I thought I might get lucky again. When the site offered eighteen cent shipping I jumped on it and put in my order.

The order arrived, so let's see if I was right.

Whee! I loved unboxing yarns. :)

These are the yarns I ordered separately from the mystery pack. On the left is Premier Puzzle in Acrostic (great colorway name.) This is a 100% acrylic #5 bulky yarn with 328 yards/300m/7 oz./200 grams, so they're very large skeins. I've been wanting to try this yarn for a while now but every time I try to thrift it I'm outbid, so I figured I'd just order a couple of skeins.

On the right is a three pack of Serenity Chunky Tweed in Seaglass. Like the other Serenity skeins I received in my last surprise pack this is a 97% acrylic 3% viscose #5 bulky yarn with 109 yards/100m/3.5 oz./100 grams. I'm planning to use these for a project with the Aran and Carbon colorways I got last time.

Here's everything that came in my surprise pack this time: fifteen skeins, two crochet hooks and four paper patterns. I really got lucky with the yarn, too.

I got three of the Summer Nights in Castaway, which match the skein I got in the last pack (even the same lot number). This is an 82% acrylic 18% polyester super fine yarn, and now I have enough to make a decent size project.

I also got eight more skeins of Serenity Chunky Tweed; three in Aran, three in Carbon, and two in Mulberry. I was hoping to get more of the Mulberry and was completely surprised to see more of the white and black colorways. I definitely have enough of this yarn now to do two big projects.

, I got three more cakes of Comfy Cotton in Chai Latte, a 50% cotton 50% polyester #3 DK weight yarn with 392 yards/358 m/7 oz./200 grams. Added to the three I got in the last pack, that's enough for me to make a wearable, so I'm super excited about that.

I also received one skein of Mary Maxim Glimmer in Dusty Mauve. This is a 97% acrylic 3% other worsted weight yarn with 191 yards/175 m/3.5 oz./100 grams, and the other is likely a pretty strand of silver metallic thread wrapped around the yarn. Really pretty, and maybe enough for a hat.

I got the same four patterns and the same two crochet hooks again, but that didn't bother me at all -- I was hoping for repeats, and I can share them with a friend who wants to get into crochet.

With the basically free shipping I ended up paying about $2.90 per skein. A little more than what I usually pay for yarn when I thrift it, but this is brand new and exactly what I was hoping to get, so I'm completely satisfied.

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